Abstract:
Multistakeholder partnership model in agroforestry is a useful approach in watershed
management to promote sustainable use of various resources and to improve the economic wellbeing
of the local people. Properly designed and managed agroforestry systems can provide
various benefits and has potential to meet environmental and socioeconomic requirements. The
research were focused on effect of multi-stakeholder assessment in agroforestry practices to
enhancing watershed management for sustainable farmer’s livelihoods in highland of northwestern
of Rwanda. Different multistakeholders such as Rwanda mountain tea environment
officer, sector agronomists, farmers (71) and Reducing Vulnerability to Climate Change through
Community Based Adaptation (RV3CBA project) were visited. Quantitative and qualitative were
used through Interview, questionnaire, group discussion and key informant methods were used for
different stakeholders involved in agroforestry practices for watershed management and then the
collected data were subjected to descriptive analysis using STATA (version 16) tools. The result
indicates that 19.72 % of local community participate in Mugogo watershed management, 36.6%
42.25 % of respondents had implemented agroforestry, 69.01 % of respondent had attended
primary education, 16.90 were illiterate and 11.27 % had secondary education, 32.39 % and
67.61% of respondent were female and male respectively, 87.32% mentioned that there were no
radical and 12.68 progressive terraces along Mugogo watershed, 91.55 % of respondent agreed
that in the catchment of Mugogo there were no trees on ditches whereas 8.45 % agreed the
presence of trees on ditches and water ways, the soil of Mugogo watershed are sandy loam and
sand clay loam.
Watershed management are strengthened with different stakeholder who are sharing different
activities in agroforestry practices such as distribution of seed tree, nursery preparation, tree
planting, weeding, pruning, thinning and harvesting. Putting together the effort by different
stakeholders is major solution for management of Mugogo watershed while improving living
condition of local community.
