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This presentation gives an overview of the experiences of Somalia in climate change adaptation planning. This was presented in April 2014 at the NAP-GSP Africa Regional Training Workshop (Anglophone) in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. This event gathered Government representatives from Ministries of Environment, Planning and Finance from 15 least developed African countries to consider the NAP process, which aims to address the medium to long–term climate change adaptation challenges for Africa. More information: http://www.undp-alm.org/nap-regional-training-workshops-african-ldcs
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Supporting LDCs to advance their National Adaptation Plans Africa Regional Training Workshop (Anglophone)
UN Conference Centre, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia 14-17 April 2014
Country Presentation (Somalia)
Presented by
Ahmed Mohamed Iman
Operational Focal Point and
Director General
Ministry of Fisheries Marine Resources and Environment
To begin with, I would like to thank Ethiopian
Government and its people for their hospitality
by hosting this Workshop in Addis Ababa. I
also like to thank the facilitators for this NAP
Workshop.
Category: country
Capital: Mogadishu
Government: presidential system republic
Population: 12 million
Official language: Somali, Arabic, Italian, and English.
Somalia is located the north- eastern part of African content
ranging 2 south latitude to 12 north latitude and facing the gulf
of Aden and the Indian ocean 3,333 coastal line. The country is
Bounded on the north by Djibouti, and on the west by Ethiopia
and Kenya.
Area: 637,664km2 (farm land 82,000 and pasture land
288,000km2
Somali Constitution and Legal Framework
Somali Constitution and Legal Framework
in which stated that every person has the
right to an environment that is not harmful
to his/her health and well being, and that
every person has the right to have a share
of the natural resources of the country.
Regarding on the above mentioned, in April 2013, the
President of Somalia released a document entitled the
National Adaptation Plan with ‘Six Pillar Policy’ three specific
intentions related to the environment, which are as follows:
•Enact laws that preserve and protect the environment;
•Incorporate environmental education in the formal and
informal education systems in the country;
•Rectify the environmental damage of the past such as
deforestation and cleaning of Somali seas.
Legal Framework Continue…..
Data Collection
Before the civil war in Somalia the
meteorology date from 1950 – 1990 were
available but since 1991 no the data was
collected. The stations which were
collecting data are not any more functional
like civil aviation and Ministries of
Fisheries, Environment and Agriculture.
Table 1 shows natural disasters 1960 to 2011
Type of calamity Year
Flood 1961
Droughts 1964
Droughts 1974
Droughts 1987
Flood 1997
Droughts 2000
Flood 2000
Droughts 2001
Droughts 2004
Flood 2006
Droughts 2008
Droughts 2009
Droughts 2010
Droughts 2011
As usually we may follow the technical guidelines for the adaptation plan such
as Element C implementation strategies
of the NAP process. Our process will be
focusing Somalia priorities in the national
climate change and adaptation policy after we get institutional capacity
building.
NAP Process Cont.... •Firstly, it is important to make embowering related national institutions and making regulatory framework for addressing every concerned adaptation in the long-term
strategies on the NAP process.
•We will also make definition on the national criteria priority on development needs, pre-
existing and may come country climate change risks.
The NAP preparation process will be closely followed
the guiding principles outlined for the Least Developed
Countries (LDC) Expert Group (LEG) established under
the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate
Change (UNFCCC).
NAP Process Cont....
Somalia potential adaptation measures and criteria for selection of priority
actions will be developed and participants on this matter will include
representatives from the following groups:
State Actors;
Governing Institutions and Authorities;
Traditional linkages;
Religious Respect Persons;
Community Elders;
Pastoralists and Agro-pastoralists; Educators;
Youth;
Women;
NGOs;
Private Sectors in generally and
Other Related important Bodies.
NAP Process Cont....
1. Develop and support national capacity for national adaptation risk
management enhance the ability to understand the systems to include
the impacts of climate change and NAP process.
Recommendations
2. Need the strategy assistance for the possible complementation
process at different levels of the community within Somalia should
ensure the full acknowledgement of government and partner agencies;
NGOs and the local communities.
3. Understanding the communities’ long-term adaptation of the linkage
between indigenous knowledge and modern of the climate change and
its adaptation and easy to get project funding to make collection in the
areas of data and dissemination of analysed information.
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4. Somalia need the levels of Risk Disaster management
System NAP adaptation and its process supported by
international and regional interest organisations and the
Ministry of Fisheries and Environment of Somalia and other
relevant government ministries and other related
stakeholders, and key partners should develop and support
national capacity.
THANKS FOR YOUR
ATTENTION
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