Abstract:
Nowadays, integrated watershed management approach is key element for sustainable watershed
management for achieving social, economic and environment aspect within watershed .The
purpose of this research is to evaluate the sustainable integrated watershed management
approach for the different activities implemented by Government of Rwanda for managing
Sebeya watershed.
Ninety seven people were randomly selected from four district covered sebeya watershed
NYABIHU,RUBAVU, RUTSIRO and NGORORERO, interview and Questionnaires methods
were used for investigating the integrated watershed management approach , the Data was
subjected in STATA software for analysis. The results show that 17.53% use water harvesting
system while 82.47% they did not adopt, area occupied with bench terraces was 30.93% while
69.07% was not conserved with bench terraces, progressive terraces was occupied with 26.80% and
73.20% was not protected, agroforestry was implemented at 68.04% while 31.96% remaining
unprotected with agroforestry, sebeya River bank protection was at 77.32% while 22.68 % was
not protected,the improved cooking stoves was used at rate 8.3% while 91.7% use three stone
open fire, the main cause of Sebeya degradation was illegal mining in upland at rate 98.97%,
increasing in settlement at 79.35% and intensive agriculture at 69.07%, the participation of local
people is at rate 20.62%. Integrated watershed approach is required for improving livelihood of
peoples and Government must protect all catchment in Sebeya watershed
