NEW WASH
ABOUT TAAKULO WASH & RESILINCE
TAAKULO’s strategy of introducing an innovative and inter-cooperative link between WASH and Resilience has indeed paved ways for pastoralists and agro-pastoralists in rural areas, explicitly in Somaliland and Somali region of Ethiopia, Delivering a promised access to durable solutions which, by far, has illuminated the climate-related backlashes that, deprive economic sources by investing in climate-resilient fodder with locally implemented agro-laboratory, the establishment of sustainable irrigation canals, advancing the reinforcement of long-standing mechanisms of tackling soil erosion through construction of check- dams in eroded farmlands and pastural lands, increasing rural agro-production and their influence on urban markets by establishing sustainable irrigation canals, and solarization of fuel-run water sources.
In early 2023, TAAKULO’s WASH sector dynamics have made a new direction towards leveraging the benefits of WASH services into multi-sector and sustainable products (Mainly infrastructure) with the use of technology as a catalyst. To this scale, we have reached the highest number of beneficiaries in TAAKULO’s tenure due to such a model of integrating WASH with the concept of resilience.
The use of technology, in particular, has forged a possibility of ‘eased accessibility’ of services for beneficiaries; water berkads which our target community had used to fetch water manually by using bowls are now cut off, hand-pumps are used instead and the longer ques are avoided, livestock herders are not worrying about the rainy season-based grazing and adopted the skillset to nurture their own fodder by using hydroponics process, the fuel-run water boreholes are solarized and the extensive cost of fuel is overly eliminated.
Rural farmrs of whom used to cultivate and irrigate their farmlands in sandy-canals are using the masonry irrigation canals and plastic pipes aided by pumps. Any of those e;orts had bent or eliminited on what could seem to be a lasting challenge; explicity in both water, nature and livelihoods.
SUSTAINABLE ‘WASH’ SYSTEMS FOR RURAL PASTORALISTS
In Sanaag region, where acute water shortage crisis has achingly affected thousands and their livestock, timely, we have raised funds from our international partners, more relatively, we came the idea of sustaining the access to clean water for people and livestock in a year-long-bases so as water-shortage-crisis would not emerge again.
Our 13 years of emergency experience has brought about the drilling of climate-resilient borehole, the17 cubic meters discharging borehole has been a success story since then, as we have transformed the lives of those community.
SAND-DAMS HAVE ENABLED REVERINE FARMERS TO COPE BY ACCESSING SUSTANBLE SOURCE FOR IRRIGATION AND DRINKING.
The cutting-edge water source will uphold 36,000 meter cubic of clean water for drinking and also for farming, the sand-dam to have a throwback of 500m. Currently, households are cultivating farmlands and consuming clean water stored by the infrastructure.
Barkad with hand-pumps: Rural pastoralists often struggle with the use of Berkads and endure longer ques to fetch-water, TAAKULO have launched the notion of installing hand-pumps in rural Berkads to ease the use of Berkads for rural HHs and their livestock.
Resuming the service-delivery of abondoned rural boreholes: In rural areas, strategic water sources as boreholes often collapse and become difunctional, in 2024, TAAKULO has invested the effective use of an abandoned borehole that’s not used by years, by configuring the solar energy, re-constructing the reservoir, replacing the entire pipping systems, and constructing new water point and livestock troughs.