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IGNITE Stage
Resilience Building in African Pastoralist and Agro-pastoralist
CommunitiesMesfin Birhanu, Ethiopia Sakhoudia Thiam, Senegal Sumire Doi, Japan Hajime Nabeta, Japan
3rd UN World Conference on Disaster Risk Reduction 2015 Sendai, Japan
Resilience Building in African Pastoralist and Agro-pastoralist Communities
The wheel-barrow enhances communities’ drought
resilience.Ethiopia
More Work with Simple Tools (Borena)
water reservoir rehabilitation
Community work increases Before: 116,632 man-days 1st year: 209,024 (up 79%) 2nd year: 288,015 (up 147%) (Total man-days in two seasons)
To enhance resilience of the people, tailor-made intervention should be made referring to the
different environment.
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Cow dung from agro-pastoralism supports school
feeding.Senega
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Supply gas for cooking Decrease use of firewood
Apply cattle manure and residue to farms
Increase Food Production
Save women & children’s workload in fetching
firewood
Decrease forest damage
Biodigester
Cow-dung
Biodigester in Ecovillage (Senegal)
Cost Recovery via Microfinance Institution (MFI)
Biodigester Supporting School Feeding
By collaboration of agriculture, education, energy, environment and other departments,
WFP, etc.
Louga
key: PLATFORM at Regional Level
Let us do more of these!
Mesfin Birhanu: [email protected] Sakhoudia Thiam: [email protected] Sumire Doi: [email protected] Hajime Nabeta: [email protected]