Join for Water, from Uganda, is looking at Women River Ambassadors (WORIAs) as drivers of change in sustainably managing the land-river interface (LRI), specifically of the Mpanga catchment in Uganda. It aims to explore the potential of strengthening the capacity of women to participate in knowledge development and conservation planning through the WORIAs initiative – helping them become drivers of positive change in sustainably managing the LRI.
It seeks to experiment with establishing WORIA-groups and identifying the boundary conditions under which they can operate. The experiment also aims to investigate how knowledge development and exchange can empower women to become actors of change in their community as WORIAs, and how they can facilitate community-based consensus building and increase responsiveness from duty bearers on sustainable management of the LRI.