Climate Resilient Infrastructure Development Facility (CRIDF)

The Climate Resilient Infrastructure Development Facility (CRIDF) is a DFID (UK Aid) supported programme working to provide long-term solutions to water issues that affect poor communities in Southern Africa. The focus is not on building short-term water infrastructure, but on working with organisations to show them how they can better build and manage their own water infrastructure to improve people’s lives. Because rivers, lakes and river basins cross borders, CRIDF is working with 12 different countries in Southern Africa that share water resources. In so doing, CRIDF aims to improve the lives of over 200 million people, many of them extremely poor. OKACOM benefited from the CRIDF partnership on the assessment of livelihood vulnerabilities in the CORB which is aligned to the livelihood and socio-economic thematic area of the Strategic Action Programme. Moreover, the CRIDF support has been extended to the OKACOM-EU project through the design of four hydrometric stations that will be installed in the basin, as well as support with the design of irrigation schemes under UNDP-GEF project for the livelihoods demonstration projects.