What we do

  • Envisioning churches through Foundational bible studies, training in resources mobilization, stakeholders’ analysis, relationship building, community description, information gathering and analysis, action planning and implementation and monitoring and evaluation.
  • Promoting good catchment management practices:- Bench terraces, soil and water conservation channels and percolation pits with hedge rows, energy saving stoves and tree planting
  • Promoting conservation farming through Farming God’s way for sustainable land use management and food security
  • Improving sanitation and hygiene through promotion of safe excreta disposal, hand washing at critical points of contamination and safe water chain to ensure that water is safe from point of collection to point of consumption. This is also charged with mobilization of communities to participate in construction of hardware facilities.
  • Increasing access to safe water services for water stressed communities by construction of 2 gravity schemes 70 tapstands, 20 institutional tanks (20,000 - 50,000 ltrs), 20 protected springs, 80 ferrocement tanks (4000ltrs) and ensuring continued functionality per year.
  • Convening and participating in learning fora, budget conferences, advocacy workshops, joint reviews, thematic learning groups and trainings in climate change adaptation at District, Regional and National levels.

Every year we serve averagely 30,000 people with a total budget of Ugx 1.7 billions

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Brief History

  • 1986: Formation of Kigezi Diocese Water Department (KDWD) has ensured water projects addressing lack of access to clean water, water borne diseases and burden of travelling long distances in search for water.
  • 1986 – 1995: Emphasis on provision of water supply infrastructure.
  • 1995 – 1998: Health, Sanitation and Maintenance increasingly emphasised.
  • 1998 – 2000: On-going (or follow-up) support increasingly emphasised.
  • 1999: Identity change to Kigezi Diocese Water and Sanitation Programme (KDWSP).
  • 2000 – 2009: Increasing focus on poverty alleviation, accelerating service delivery through rainwater harvesting technologies training, information/experience dissemination and advocacy.
  • 2007 – 2009: Mainstreaming HIV/AIDS, environmental protection, food security and family planning
  • 2009 – 2011: Emphasis on integrated development, while maintaining mainstreaming of cross-cutting issues
  • 2011-2015: Emphasis on sustaining access and ensuring that water stressed communities also access clean water. Integrated water resources management using community participatory approaches to ensure sustainable water quality and quantity. Emphasis is also on promotion of rain water harvest as an appropriate technology to populations living on hilltops, gravity flow schemes and protected springs for communities in valleys and low lying parts of the ridges.

CONTACT US

Kigezi Diocese Water and Sanitation Project
Rt. Rev. George Bagamuhunda,
Bishop Diocese of Kigezi
Phone: +256772450019
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Rev. Can. Reuben Byomuhangi
Coordinator KDWSP
Phone: +256772524139
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