Um Estudo ex post do Projeto de Desenvolvimento Hidroambiental - PRODHAM: o caso da microbacia do Rio Cangati - Canindé - Ceará – Brasil

Abstract

The Northeast Region consists of a semi-arid climate with low incidence rainfall and shallow soils that affect agricultural production, making the life of the frontiersman man. To minimize the suffering and improve the quality of life of the people in the semiarid region, were created various government programs, among them stands out the Hydroenvironmental Development Project - PRODHAM, in order to reorganize the watersheds and work rehabilitation of degraded areas, by man, in Ceará semiarid region. PRODHAM aimed at establishing coordinated and sustainable actions of recovery and conservation of natural and environmental resources, such as soil, water and vegetation, which involves the areas bordering the rivers, ponds and its sources; involving also socioeconomic aspects of the communities in the watershed,with proposed technologies in hydro-environmental and productive area, to new ways of working in rural areas, as well as the involvement of local communities in the development and application of the correct use practices and soil conservation and water. The implementation program in the watershed since Cangati River, municipality of Canindé, in Ceará, led many impacts on the community, this social, economic and cultural. Thus to assess the importance of this program, we use the survey "in loco", through interviews, to analyze, as viewed from the beneficiary population, what benefits accrued by the program to the daily life of the community.