As shown in the figure 5 above most interviewed Tsholotsho communities indicated that food and shelter were their major concern, followed by education and health. These communities lost immovable property, small livestock’s, crops due to effects of floods. Compensation was the least of their priorities. The communities highlighted that compensation in the form of small livestock, farming inputs and stronger building materials was necessary to alleviate their perennial problems. Most of the interviewees cited that the provision of boreholes, and support to start income generating projects and secure basics needs such as food, health and education. None of the interviewed displaced communities showed an interest to be relocated to land on higher ground. In the Gariya area, the dam’s banks busted resulting in the flooding of homes leading to their collapse. Small livestock was swept away. Ideally, the Government should have devised early warning systems in that area and implemented Disaster Risk Reduction Strategies in line with Article 4(2) of the Kampala Convention. The Right to Adequate and Decent Shelter Table 1: Family Sizes of the 12 Interviewed Households Page 14 of 22