Abstract
Watershed management gives an opportunity for understanding and reconciling the interconnections among various land use systems. Watershed management has an old history that can be related to ancient mankind agricultural activities though the holistic way of conserving natural resources under watershed. There are various opportunities under watershed management such as jobs, getting benefits, conserving nature and reducing negative impacts together. However, there are challenges arises during implementing the watershed management in different watersheds. The challenges should be clearly identified and forwarding solution should be given for policy and decision makers in order to improve the successes and benefits of watershed management in Ethiopia. The aim of this review was to identify the constraints of watershed management measures in Ethiopia and provide ways forward in tackling the challenges. Watershed management was officially initiated and practiced in Ethiopia for five decades and some successes have been achieved and different degraded sites were changed to productive sites. However, the failure of different watershed management measures was observed across the country as a result of various constraints of watershed management in Ethiopia. Some of the major constraints of watershed management in Ethiopia are lack of awareness among policymakers, policy and strategy related constraints, socio-economic and biophysical constraints, capacity constraints, financial and incentive constraints and lack of community awareness. Some of the recommendations were given as follow: policy and strategies should be applied at a watershed level as it presented in the document; compressive technical capacity building training should be given to the local experts and extensionists and information center should be created for sharing data between concerned institutions and stakeholders about the technologies in watershed management practices.
Highlights
Watershed is a given area of land that shares common water outlet channels and storages [1]
The aim of this review was to identify the constraints of watershed management measures in Ethiopian and provide way forward in tackling the challenges
Climatic variability is seen in recurrent droughts and this is associated with high rainfall variability, which have long been a feature in Ethiopia, and contributed to the decline in vegetation cover, loss of biodiversity and worsening land degradation [28]
Summary
Watershed is a given area of land that shares common water outlet channels and storages [1]. Other define watershed management as the combined use of natural resources (land, vegetation and water) in a geographically separated drainage area for the livelihood benefits that aimed at conservation of the hydrologic services and reducing the adverse impacts on downstream [1]. In these cases, major points to be considered in a watershed management are the natural resources, human benefits, sustainability and human actions properly and wisely [6]. The approach was changed to bottom up, where the community discuss, plan, implement and the officers, authorities and policy makers support the planning and activities This one has registered various successes in different watershed across Ethiopia [25, 27]. The aim of this review was to identify the constraints of watershed management measures in Ethiopian and provide way forward in tackling the challenges
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