ABSTRACT
The “Integrated Pastoral Development Project Mbarara” aims at enabling 900 settler families to sustainably satisfy their basic needs from their own resources within 6 years. The Mbarara Local Government and “Gesellschaft fur Techniche Zusammenarbeit” are in charge of project implementation from the Ugandan and German side respectively. Experience with self-help and extension approaches world-wide shows that one of the basic pre-conditions for a successful extension work is that self help and extension efforts are geared towards the needs of the target groups and based on self-help efforts as much as possible. Community self-help and extension projects can only be successful at target group level, if their support activities are closely geared towards the needs as perceived by the target groups. A water revolution involves a system of governance/regulation of the ownership, appropriation, distribution, management, protection, utilization and conservation of the principal source of life for every living form in the earth’s ecosystem.
