PARTICIPATORY NATURAL RESOURCE MANAGEMENT WITH SOMALI PASTORAL & AGROPASTORAL COMMUNITIES:

a lasting community led response to climate change

Holly Welcome Radice, Maria Ruiz-Bascaran, Dr. Yosef Seyoum & Redwan Getachew

◙ Mobile pastoralists adaptive capacity

◙ Climatic changes’ affect on natural resources & adaptive capacity

◙ Natural resource management & connection to resiliency

◙ Participatory natural resources management communities in Shinile Zone, Somali Region, Ethiopia

INTRODUCTION

INTERVENTION AREA

INTERVENTION AREA

Climatic hazards

NRM problems in Zone

Community identified climatic changes

Underlying vulnerability + trends of change

PARTICIPATORY NATURAL RESOURCE MANAGEMENT

◙ Stakeholders’ assessment ◙ Community Action Plan ◙ Establishment committees ◙ NRM training ◙ NRM activities implemented ◙ Experimentation and innovation

PARTICIPATORY NATURAL RESOURCE MANAGEMENT

RESULTS OF COMMUNITY ACTION PLANS

◙ Immediate income ◙ Conversion of under-utilized land ◙ Increased access to food ◙ Alternate income sources ◙ Community inspiration

LESSONS LEARNED

◙ Promotion of innovation & experimentation works

◙ Involvement of women, children & local officials throughout is key

◙ CAPs provide a tool for communities to engage

CONCLUSIONS

CONCLUSIONS

◙ Benefits: economic, social, immediate, long term

◙ PNRM & DRR framework

◙ Connection to climate change adaptation

◙ Future programming

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

◙ ECHO

◙ USAID / OFDA

◙ Save the Children UK Somali Region field staff

◙ Ann Mutua

◙ Government officials of Shinile Zone

◙ Communities of Shinile and Dembel districts

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Thank you