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WFP AND DISASTER RISK MITIGATION IN THE KYRGYZ REPUBLIC RESILIENT COMMUNITIES, SUSTAITANBLE ENVIRONMENT – FOUNDATION FOR FOOD SECURITY AND DEVELOPMENT WFP’s Key Disaster Mitigation Activities Emergency preparedness, response and recovery Guided by the Sendai framework and national development priorities, WFP supports emergency preparedness activities to mitigate the effects of recurrent natural disasters on vulnerable populations. Such activities also include emergency preparedness training for local civil protection specialists in WFP-supported pilot districts. Building Community Resilience and Protection of Vulnerable Populations WFP in partnership with the Ministry of Emergency Situations in the Kyrgyz Republic and other relevant stakeholders is implementing a variety of structural disaster mitigation projects by considering specific local hazards. These projects include riverbank protection with gabion nets, construction or rehabilitation of mudflow canals and dams, and planting of trees in areas prone to landslides. Productive Measures of Social Development WFP supports the Government of the Kyrgyz Republic to introduce the effective mechanisms of monitoring and tracking changes in food security situations such as food prices or natural disasters’ impact on vulnerable households. This helps to ensure the timely analysis of the situation and the use of relevant effective emergency response measures to mitigate the effects of natural disasters, build resilience and strengthen social support. Monitoring and Analysis of Food Security, Early Warning Systems WFP supports the Government of the Kyrgyz Republic to introduce the effective mechanisms of monitoring and tracking changes in food security situations such as food prices or natural disasters’ impact on vulnerable households. This helps to ensure the timely analysis of the situation and the use of relevant effective emergency response measures to mitigate the effects of natural disasters, build resilience and strengthen social support. Partnerships and Capacity Building WFP strengthens the capacities of local authorities and community members through awareness raising initiatives such as training and information materials on disaster risk management. WFP in the Kyrgyz Republic: Bishkek, 720040 150 Panfilov Street Phone: +996 312 66 00 33 [email protected] www.wfp.org www.wfp.org/ru Osh, 723500 12 Michurin Street Phone: +996 3222 4 70 31 [email protected]
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WFP AND DISASTER RISK MITIGATION IN THE KYRGYZ REPUBLIC
RESILIENT COMMUNITIES, SUSTAITANBLE ENVIRONMENT – FOUNDATION FOR FOOD SECURITY AND DEVELOPMENT
WFP’s Key Disaster Mitigation Activities
Emergency preparedness, response and recovery Guided by the Sendai framework and national development priorities, WFP supports emergency preparedness activities to mitigate the effects of recurrent natural disasters on vulnerable populations. Such activities also include emergency preparedness training for local civil protection specialists in WFP-supported pilot districts.
Building Community Resilience and Protection of Vulnerable Populations WFP in partnership with the Ministry of Emergency Situations in the Kyrgyz Republic and other relevant stakeholders is implementing a variety of structural disaster mitigation projects by considering specific local hazards. These projects include riverbank protection with gabion nets, construction or rehabilitation of mudflow canals and dams, and planting of trees in areas prone to landslides.
Productive Measures of Social DevelopmentWFP supports the Government of the Kyrgyz Republic to introduce the effective mechanisms of monitoring and tracking changes in food security situations such as food prices or natural disasters’ impact on vulnerable households. This helps to ensure the timely analysis of the situation and the use of relevant effective emergency response measures to mitigate the effects of natural disasters, build resilience and strengthen social support.
Monitoring and Analysis of Food Security, Early Warning SystemsWFP supports the Government of the Kyrgyz Republic to introduce the effective mechanisms of monitoring and tracking changes in food security situations such as food prices or natural disasters’ impact on vulnerable households. This helps to ensure the timely analysis of the situation and the use of relevant effective emergency response measures to mitigate the effects of natural disasters, build resilience and strengthen social support.
Partnerships and Capacity BuildingWFP strengthens the capacities of local authorities and community members through awareness raising initiatives such as training and information materials on disaster risk management.
WFP in the Kyrgyz Republic:Bishkek, 720040150 Panfilov StreetPhone: +996 312 66 00 [email protected]/ru
Osh, 72350012 Michurin Street Phone: +996 3222 4 70 31 [email protected]
Food Security and Natural DisastersFrequent and unmitigated natural disasters are key drivers of food insecurity in the Kyrgyz Republic restricting physical and economic access to food. Destroyed livelihoods, buildings, agricultural infrastructure and assets limit agricultural production and impede access to food, particularly for vulnerable populations.
Natural disasters statistics provided by the Ministry of Emergencies suggest an increased frequency and intensity of climate-related natural hazards, including mudflows, floods, landslides, and avalanches. Therefore, reducing disaster risks and increasing resilience to natural hazards is crucial for protecting progress and for achieving sustainable development.
WFP also supports emergency preparedness and response measures, increasing resilience to natural hazards to ensure sustainable improvements in food security as well as trigger long-term rural development.
WFP’s Strategy to Support Disaster Risk Mitigation Preparing for, preventing and mitigating the impact of disasters are core activities of WFP in the Kyrgyz Republic. WFP provides technical support to develop strategies and capacity building on disaster risk management and climate change.
• WFP uses household-level Food Security and Vulnerability Analysis to monitor families’ food
security status and potential impact of natural disasters on households. This information is provided regularly to national decision-makers. WFP has supported the development of a Food Security Atlas to identify geographical, climatic and economic characteristics of food security and natural disasters’ impact on food security at sub-national level.
• WFP supports the Ministry of Emergency Situations to establish an information analysis and management system for its Crisis Management Center, which can facilitate real-time management of disaster mitigation operations. Also, partners have initiated a stakeholder-mapping exercise to identify all DRM-related activities, experts and funding streams in the Kyrgyz Republic.
• WFP supports countrywide emergency preparedness through policy advice and training such as the cross-border disaster response simulation exercise SimEx held in 2014.
Field-level emergency preparedness and disaster mitigation activities
WFP supports building community resilience to natural disasters and climate change through improvement of rural infrastructure aimed to strengthen early warning systems and emergency preparedness.
• Support of structural mitigation projects to develop and strengthen rural infrastructure, including riverbank protection with gabion nets,
construction or rehabilitation of mudflow canals and dams.
• WFP also strengthens the capacities of local authorities and community members through awareness raising initiatives such as training and information materials on disaster risk management.
• WFP supports the implementation of structural disaster mitigation measures and development of mitigation infrastructure at community level to boost the coping capacities of the rural population. Such infrastructure measures include projects on riverbank reinforcement with gabions, construction or rehabilitation of mudflow canals and planting trees in landslide-prone areas. Since 2010, reinforce riverbanks and protect lives, houses, and croplands from floods and mudflows. Over 6.5 million trees have been planted on landslide-prone areas to strengthen the soils and protects buildings and assets.
• WFP and MoES support training on emergency contingency planning, structural mitigation, early warning, and community-based disaster mitigation activities for local civil protection specialists and community leaders in WFP-supported pilot districts. After the completion of the ToT, participants will develop a work plan to further disseminate their knowledge and raise awareness of community members on disaster preparedness.
