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Disaster Risk Reduction
Experiences and Lessons Learned
from MERET
Arega Yirga
13 October 2014 Addis Ababa
• Overview
• Main Objectives
• Underlying Causes of Vulnerability (land degradation)
• Main Resilience Building Packages
• Major Achievements
• Main Factors Contributed to Achieving Resilience Building
• Conclusion
Outline
OverviewMERET has been implemented in areas: •Highly vulnerable to recurrent droughts •Highly degraded mainly due to mismanagement and lack of organized interventions •Suffering from structural food deficit •Highly fragile ecosystems and moisture stress•Highly dependant on natural resources base for their livelihoods
Main Objectives of MERET
• Empower communities & build resilience to shocks – Support communities to promote resilience – Use and develop skills and knowledge to build
resilience
• Improve livelihoods through sustainable development of natural resources
• Enable access to poor households to development opportunities
• Make solid connection between the people and their enabling environment
• Build equity to development opportunities and access to assets created
Underlying causes of Vulnerability (land degradation)
Backward and traditional agricultural practices
High population pressure leading to poor land management practices
Land use change Deforestation Cultivation of marginal lands
Livestock pressure and uncontrolled grazing
Undulating & rugged topography
Inappropriate land use
Undulating and rugged topography
Deforestation
Traditional
agricultural
practices
Livestock pressure
Rapid population
growth
Food Insecurity
Extreme climate events
Major Resilience Building Packages
of MERET
Technical support and skill training for field staff
Community-based participatory watershed planning and implementation
Soil and water conservation activities Physical moisture conservation Increases productivity
Reforestation & management of degraded lands
– increases resilience (adaptation)– Reduces greenhouse gas
emissions
Degraded hillsides rehabilitation & development
Hillside SWC activities
Runoff water harvesting for small and medium scale irrigation development
Moisture harvesting for productivity enhancement in degraded and water stress areas
Multiplication of improved planting materials Seedling production activities High value tree & fruit
seedling production
Land fertility & productivity improvement Low cost soil fertility
improvement & management
Increase carbon sequestration in the soil
Farm land terracing for agricultural productivity improvement Soil moisture
conservation improvement
enhances achievement of food security
Livestock Development
Beekeeping
Animal fattening at individual household levels
Poultry production as one of IGAs
Promotion of various income generating activities (IGAs) Cash crops and
horticultural development
Growing & multiplication of various high value income generating fruit trees
Animal fodder production for livestock development
Many farmers have built sustainable resilience and changed their lives from poor to good quality living
Before & after MERET
Main Factors Contributed to Achieving Resilience Building
Community empowerment & sense of ownership
Implementation of appropriate and adaptable technologies
Establishment of quality control and performance measurement
Technical capacity building at all levels Application of quality control systemProvision of necessary inputs for
farmers
Main Factors Contributed to Achieving Resilience Building (cont’d)
Application of need-based technical capacity building for planning & implementation
Integrated participatory watershed management approach
Demonstration of new and demand-driven technologies on the ground
Strong and equitable community ownership to manage and monitor natural resources
Conclusion Build appropriate disaster
prevention, mitigation, preparedness & response on people’s capacities & tackle root causes of vulnerability
NRM as a primary option for food insecure communities, must be tailored to the needs of communities
NRM should be embedded into a broader community-based approach to building sustainable resilience and food security
Demand-driven & community owned development interventions play a significant role in making transition to resilience building and green growth more inclusive
The Way Forward to Resilience for Life
Thank You