Construction of sand damp to improve and upscale groundwater recharge to access potable water for residents in Borama town, Somaliland.

Project period:

15.05.2023 - 15.09.2023

Granted amount:

299,997,- DKK

Total budget:

336,697,- DKK

Organization:

Danish Muslim Aid

Partners:

Taakulo Somali Community (TASCO)

Pool:

DERF - Nødhjælpspuljen

Grant type:

22-016-AA Special Call for Horn of Africa

World goals:

Goal 1: No Poverty

Goal 2: Zero Hunger

Goal 6: Clean Water and Sanitation

Goal 13: Climate Action

Efforts take place in:

Somaliland

Resume

The livelihoods of communities in rural areas - including Dhamug, have become hardened and extraordinarily complicated in some areas. The farmers in the suburbs and along the river banks have already been threatened by severe environmental degradation, some of which have even gone half of their sizes (farmlands) due to increased erosion and migration of topsoil. The proposed solution aims to enable the target community to cope and become effectively resilient to climate and water-shortage-induced vulnerabilities by ensuring daily water use, which is prominent regardless of what season. The project objective will be reached by recharging the water table, which will allow the general residents, and target groups, to have daily access to sustainable yields of potable water; Subsequently, the proposed solution will deliver the construction of one (1) Sand-dam, a subsurface sand-storage dam, explicitly a small masonry structure built across the bed of a seasonal river, in arched layout.