Development basin · horizon 4–6 years
Hydro-agricultural development basin
Secure a basin's water — drinking and productive — and build the local economy on it.
The vision
Water structures everything: health, agriculture and livestock, energy. The programme treats a watershed as a development unit: resource mobilisation, drinking water, irrigation, rural roads and electrification — with basin governance that makes the works last.
Programme components
Resource mobilisation
Boreholes, intakes, hillside reservoirs depending on hydrology.
Drinking water
Supply systems, standpipes, local delegated management.
Productive water
Irrigated schemes, pastoral watering.
Access & energy
Basin roads, community and productive solar.
Basin governance
User committees, tariffs, maintenance.
Intended effects, to be measured
- Measurable increase in the basin's drinking-water access rate.
- Agricultural production secured through the dry season.
- Reduced water-borne disease burden.
Anchor — where our legitimacy on this model comes from
Our place
ODT replaces neither the mayor, nor the ministry, nor the funder. It designs, integrates and verifies.
ODT is an architect, an integrator and a trusted third party. It coordinates and designs; it does not replace sector authorities and does not hold the funds. Each model or principle described here is tested on the Productive Territories demonstrators, whose status is dated.
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