Project owner and partners
Institution responsible for project
Ethiopian Rainwater Harvesting Association (ERHA)
ERHA is an Ethiopian non-governmental organisation founded in 1999 by Ethiopian citizens who recognised the imminent challenges resulting from water shortage at global and local levels. ERHA works to promote rainwater harvesting (RWH) in Ethiopia through advocacy, networking, research and capacity building among its stakeholders, in particular the local organisations implementing RWH projects. ERHA will select local organisations to construct the sand dams and RWH systems together with local water committees.
Project partners
Rainwater Harvesting Implementation Network (RAIN)
The RAIN Foundation was founded in December 2003. Since then, it has been responsible for the construction of more than 1,800 m3 of rainwater harvesting capacity by local organisations in Burkina Faso, Ethiopia, Nepal and Senegal.
Sahelian Solution Foundation (SASOL)
The Kenyan organisation - Sahelian Solutions Foundation (SASOL), was founded in 1992 to provide local people with water, following the droughts and famines which had struck the arid region. SASOL has since constructed almost 500 dams in the Kitui district in Kenya, providing approximately 120,000 people with water. SASOL plans to build a further 500 dams in and around the Kitui district over the coming decade and to disseminate its expertise to other areas and East African countries.
Acacia Institute
The Acacia Institute, affiliated to the Vrije Universiteit (Amsterdam/NL), promotes the exchange of groundwater knowledge and the sustainable use and management of groundwater. The Acacia Institute, together with the SASOL Foundation, has initiated a program called “Recharge Techniques and Water Conservation in East Africa; Up-scaling and Dissemination of the good practices with the Kitui sand dams”. The program aims to promote community-based sand dams in both other regions of Kenya and surrounding countries.
