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A system, organized by the residents of Kiawamagira village, to reduce the
negative impacts of flooding and damage to access road during the rainy
season using resources available to each of the households in the village.
C:
Kiawamagira community
A:
Kiawamagira community
T:
Suffering resulting from flooding
and access road damage
Suffering reduced
W:
Lack of adequate preparation during the rainy season increases
suffering when the floods come and the access road is damaged
The village is predisposed to flooding and nothing can be done
about that
O:
Kiawamagira community
E:
Resources available to households, community organization
Monitor to decide:
-Who most affected
-Recovery and damage
control
Households
Village committee
Keep community
alert and informed
Stock supplies
Organize
community
Take action
Plant blue gum trees
in swampy areas
Support
those most
affected
Control damage
and facilitate
recovery
C: Clients; A: Actors; T: Transformations; W: World-view; O: Owners; E: Environment
fIGuRe 5.4
A root definition and an activity based on the perspective of a group of com-
munity members collectively referred to as the fatalists. See CD for color image.
was almost nonexistent in the late 1990s. There were three main perspectives on the
causes of this. The first was that the Ministry of Agriculture could no longer afford to
finance such activities. The second was that farmers in many of the villages were too
resistant to the extension agents, resulting in disillusionment. The third perspective
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