YEMEN

AREA OF EXPERTISE

Multisectoral

FUNDING

• Funding : EUROPEAID (European Union Cooperation Agency)

The construction of irrigation pools and retaining walls also helped improve soil fertility.

A second phase was launched in March 2002: we developed our action in other communities of the region and reached some 70,000 people. We opened access to 700 ha of land and protected 24.000 palm trees against erosion. These works also led to refilling the groundwater levels.

This programme was realised, as was the first phase, in partnership with one of the Ministry of Agriculture departments, the WHAPD (Wadi Hadramaout Agriculture Project Development). It fully involved the local communities who performed the works.

This programme was developed in 2 phases each lasting twenty-four months and resulted in the following:

Phase one :

• Construction/rehabilitation of 130 structures on 97 sites,
• Improvement of traditional irrigation over 1339 ha of cultivated land,
• Irrigation of 343 ha of land,
• 20 villages and 355 ha of cultivated land protected against seasonal floods

Phase two:

• Construction/rehabilitation of 146 structures in 117 sites,
• Irrigation of 27800 palm trees thanks to new infrastructures,
• 260 ha of land irrigated anew (irrigation had stopped in 1999),
• Improvement of the irrigation system across 2236 ha of cultivated land,
• 50 ha of cultivated land irrigated non-stop throughout the year,
• 300 ha of land made farmable again,
• 12 villages, 24,000 palm trees and 700 ha of cultivated land protected against floods,
• Groundwater refilled by 100.000 to 200.000 m³ per year.