Transcript Mainstreaming human mobility in adaptation to climate

Mainstreaming human mobility in
adaptation to climate change
policies and actions
TADDESSE BEKELE FANTA
ETHIOPIA
Migration as coping strategy
Order of survival mechanisms before migration as
disaster risk profile studies of Ethiopia
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Reduced expenditure on non-essential items
Consumption rather than sales
Borrowing of food or cash
Sale of non-productive assets
Sale of productive asset
Short term seasonal labor migration
Long-term permanent migration including distress migration of the
whole family
8. Increased working hours, collection of wild food, begging for
money or for food and others
nature of migration
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Rural to urban
Drought induced migration
Scarce or limited resource, Asset depletion
Conflict
Livelihood and asset building
Shock absorbing capacity
Climate change and its impacts
• Increasing long-run temperature and declining
rainfall scenarios have been negatively affecting
agricultural production, infrastructure and
livelihoods of the rural poor community.
• It is believed predicted climate change, including
variability, exert additional pressure on the
already weakened subsistence economy of the
pilot areas.
build adaptive capacity of the rural community to
cope with drought and climate change contribute
towards the reduction of the threat of climate change
on livelihood opportunities”.
• A resilient community is well placed to manage hazards
to minimize their effects and/or to recover quickly from
any negative impacts, resulting in a similar or improved
state as compared to before the hazard occurred,
• There are strong linkages between resilience and
adaptive capacity. One of the most important factors
shaping the adaptive capacity of individuals, households
and communities is their access to and control over
natural, human, social, physical, and financial resources.
Disaster risk profiles as a bases for mitigating
migration based on DRM policies, Strategic Programs
and Investment Frameworks
• Measure the vulnerability and capacity along with the kind of
hazard affecting the community
• Response plan for disaster risk reduction activities supported
by the investment framework
• Create enabling factor for the community to tackle the root
cause of the problem
• Allocation of response fund pooled from Government,
Diaspora, International and Local organizations and the
community
• Enhance the role of the Diaspora in investing in its locality on
combating the hazard which triggered migration
Climate change adaptation measures expected
from partners including the Diaspora
• Livelihood strategies that enhance the resilience of vulnerable
farmers to cope with drought and climate change adopted
and sustained.
• Provision of drought resistance, high yielding and short
season crops
• Rice promotion, Compost production, promotion of fruits and
vegetables, integrated pest management
• Livestock production, goats and sheep as asset creation
revolving fund
• Bee production, bee colony revolving
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Integrated Watershed Management and area closure
Irrigation development
Rain water harvesting
Flood protection
Spring water development
Alternative energy sources for environmental protection
Enhanced use of early warning information
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