REGIS-ER

Resilience and Economic Growth in the Sahel –

Enhanced Resilience

4 objectives of REGIS-ER:

• Strengthened and sustainable livelihoods (well-being)

OVERALL GOAL: INCREASED RESILIENCE

• Strengthened governance, institutions, natural resource management (conflict management through prevention)

• Improved health, nutrition, and access to potable water

• Framework provided for emergency aid in case of external shocks or disasters

REGIS-ER capitalizes on lessons and achieve-ments from other CLUSA interventions

• Niger-Moringa Project (nutrition; profit from sales)

• Niger-Arziki Project (climate change adaptation; animal fattening; warehouse warranties; BDL)

• Other projects in the region

Senegal-Yaajeendé: Community-based solution provider network; Nutrition-Led Agriculture

Senegal-Wula Nafaa: Local Conventions and natural resource management as part of good governance

Selection of intervention sites

• Area containing the most vulnerable populations, or FFP site

• Village where no interventions have yet taken place

REGIS-ER: Regional teams

Niamey

Maradi

Cluster Team

Cluster Team

Zinder

Cluster Team

Cluster Team

Tillabéry North

Cluster Team

Cluster Team

Tillabéry South

Cluster Team

Cluster Team

Ouagadougou

Dori

Cluster Team

Kaya

Cluster Team

Cluster Team

Bogande

Cluster Team

3 REGIS-ER components work together toward common objectives of strengthened resilience :

• Well-Being • Governance • Health/Nutri.

"LIVELIHOODS" (Economic Well-Being) Component Examples of activities

Animal fattening; making and storing animal food

Built structures to slow down and capture rainwater (CCA)

Home-based nutrition gardens (moringa and baobab, vegetables)

Biological Reclamation of degraded lands (BDL)

Solar system Annual cost 20% of

motor pump

Zero maintenance

10 years life

Water is free!

Environmental friendly

And women love it!

The Three Components of Moringa Oasis Moringa plus vegetables, Fruit trees nursery, Fruit trees plantations

Moringa intercropped with vegetables. Oasis agriculture

Fruit trees nursery. Income and service to the community

Governance and Natural Resource Management Component - Examples of activities

• Resolution of conflicts between herders and farmers over resource use

• Preparation of land use maps (POAS) and Local Conventions with commonly-agreed rules

• Early warning systems brought down to the commune level using an existing national plan

• Regular coordination meetings with government resilience strategy orgs (3N, Rural Sector Program)

Health and Nutrition Component Examples of activities

Gardening and Nutrition

• Community /school and home-based gardens

• Minimum: 2 moringa and 2 baobab trees in each home garden; grafted fruit trees

• Emphasis on mother and infant foods to reduce malnutrition

Water, Hygiene, Sanitation

• Construct multi-user water sources (separate animals/ humans)

• Assistance for village water and sanitation committees

• Access to low-cost techno-logies (latrines, tippy tap...)

• Health services quality improvement committees

Social and Behavior Change Communications (SBCC)

Principles

• Focus on small, do-able actions, not just knowledge

• Build on existing values, approaches and concerns

• Provide triggers, levers and support for trial and adoption of improved behaviors

• Based on analysis of factors that facilitate or block uptake of behaviors

Strategy and Methods

• Overarching project strategy: multi-media (radio-focused) participatory, integrated

• Linking of media interventions with peer group, interpersonal discussions, and job aids

• Harmonize demand creation and supply

Cross-cutting activities

Small grants • Kits with training available to

the most vulnerable

• Climate change adaptation cost sharing

• Local Development Plans

Training

• Irrigation technologies for vegetable and animal feed production

• BDS and literacy training

Gender • Appropriate economic

activities reserved for women (BDL, nutrition...)

• Target: at least half the CBSPs = women

Communications and behavior

• Media sensitization on markets , technology, conflict issues

• Social behavior change in sanitation, climate change, family planning, nutrition topics

REGIS-ER PARTNERS (partial list)

Niger - 3N, Ministries, others:

• HEALTH: SPRING, URC, Plan,

Xood-Nooma...

• LIVESTOCK: AREN

• EMERGENCY PLANNING:

DNPGCC, Red Cross, FEWSnet,

Mercy Corps, Ministries

• CONFLICTS: COFOB, OIM, MUSU,

EU, GENOVICO

• NRM: USGS/EROS, IGN/N...

• FINANCES: Kokari, ASUSU...

Burkina Faso - National Rural Sector Program, Ministries, others:

• HEALTH: SPRING, URC, OXFAM, Mwangaza...

• LIVESTOCK : A2N

• EMERGENCY PLANNING: CONASUR, Red Cross, FEWSnet, Ministries

• CONFLICTS: CFV, OIM, EU, GENOVICO

• NRM: USGS/EROS, IGN/BF, NewTree

• FINANCES: TINTUA, RCBP...

!FAMILY PLANNING!

The inexorable growth of Sub Saharan African population in the next 40 years will complicate

agricultural solutions developed for today’s problems. Barbara Boyle Torrey

• Pop. Niger 2014 = 17 millions

• Pop. Niger 2050 = 57 millions!!

“If the drummer's rhythm changes, the dance must also change" ~ Hausa Proverb

Thank you