28th November 2022: The delegation from the Embassy of the Kingdom of the Netherlands in Kigali visited the flood curbing infrastructures built as part of the ongoing 'Embedding Integrated Water Resources Management Programme (IWMR) known as the Sebeya Project.

This delegation was received by the Rwanda Water Resources Board (RWB) and the International Union for Nature Conservation (IUCN) on Wednesday, November 23, 2022.

The flood infrastructures include retaining walls, Bukeri diversion channel, Sebeya lateral dyke and retention dam that have been constructed in Rubavu District to generate a dampening effect on the floods, primarily mainly by lowering the peak flood downstream.

In recent years, floods caused by Sebeya river used to affect Mahoko Center and other households nearby.

The ongoing Sebeya Project, funded by the Embassy of the Kingdom of the Netherlands in Kigali, spans four districts of Rubavu, Rutsiro, Ngororero and Nyabihu in Western Province.

Other project interventions include the restoration of degraded lands through the construction of radical and progressive terraces, agroforestry, afforestation, gullies rehabilitation, and river bank protections.

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