Transcript Day2_Building Capacities for Disaster Risk

Building Capacities for Disaster Risk
Reduction and Community Resilience
in Palestine
The UN system in Palestine
Situation in Palestine : Threats
Palestine is facing multiple threats:
Natural:
 Earthquake
 Floods
 Droughts
Political:
 Civil Unrest
Disaster Risk Reduction in Palestine
DRR
Disaster
Management
Implementing
MOI,
PCD,
WFP
Disaster
Preparedness
Disaster
Mitigation &
Resilience
Implementing
Implementing
MOFA,
WFP
MOA,
FAO,
CRS,
WFP
Disaster Management and Preparedness
Capacity Building of
communities through E-voucher
support;
Capacity Building in support of the
Palestinian Civil Defense;
Disaster Mitigation & Building Resilience
Conditional Vouchers with :
- Greening Palestine
- Water Harvesting
- Land Rehabilitation
Delivering as One initiative
UN agencies in the Palestinian Territory
co-operating individual and joint initiatives to
support the Palestinian Civil Defense
Support to the Palestinian Civil Defense
 Building the Capacities for Disaster Risk
Reduction and Community Resilience in Palestine
 16 individual projects to support PCD
with a combined value of $7,6 mill USD
Areas identified to support PCD
Three outputs according to their order of prioritization:
 Information management
 Logistics
 Emergency Telecoms
SMS Project
Information Management and Emergency Telecoms
Mobile Solutions for transforming paper surveys into digital
data
 Risk assessment – vulnerability and Preparedness Survey;
 Disaster assessment – after a disaster occurs;
 Citizen Reporting of regular incidents – crowd
sourcing;
Different Solutions according to utility
PoiM
3.3
ODK
NDG
2.8
FLSMS
EpiS
Ushahidi
2.3
1.8
1.3
0.8
Q1
Q2
Q3
Q4
Q5
Benefits
 Projects will support the Civil Defenses mandate as
principle humanitarian coordinator for the Palestinian
Authority in times of emergency and disaster.
 Collaborative initiatives with other actors strengthen
all programmes and delivers maximum value for the
international communities investments.
 Resilience focused projects for both the PCD and the
community ensure that long-term sustainability is
achieved.
Building resilient livelihood
for food security initiative
“Greening Palestine” and
Climate Change Adaptation
What is it ?
Conditional voucher: work in return for
voucher to access food in shops.
Work plan initiated on February 2013 , on two levels:
1. Greening Palestine: Tree
Plantation;.
2. Land rehabilitation and
reclamation: building
terraces, water channels,
and ponds.
Greening Palestine and DRR
Positive outcomes
Tree Plantation:
 Protects the land from soil erosion;
 Increases flora in the territory which will :
 Helps decrease pollution and ameliorate
atmospheric conditions;
Land rehabilitation:
Building terraces,
water channels
ponds
will
- Channel the water;
-Prevent: floods from
accessing lands, roads and
homes; AND loss of
livelihood due to droughts;
-Increases land production;
“Rainwater harvesting” and
climate change adaptation
 What is it ?
Cash transfer: involving beneficiaries in
water cisterns construction/rehabilitation
Activities on-going since 2011
1. Rehabilitation of cisterns
for herders
2. Construction of cisterns
for farmers
Rainwater harvesting and DRR
Positive outcomes
Water harvesting
will
-Increase quantity of water
available
- Increase predictability of
water availability
- Reduce production cost
“Urban Agriculture in Gaza”
and resilient cities
 What is it ?
Technology transfer: Vertical gardens,
aquaponics, backyard gardens, fish ponds
food diversification and value chain
Activities on-going since 2011
1. Rooftop gardens: 330
units (vertical and
aquaponics)
2. Backyard gardens: 220
rabbit units
3. Fish ponds: 120 units
The first tomato harvest from a rooftop
aquaponic unit in the Gaza Strip’s Az Zaitoun
neighborhood
FAO/Christopher Somerville
Rainwater harvesting and DRR
Positive outcomes
Roof top gardens
Backyard gardens
and fish ponds
will
- Increase water efficiency
- Adaption of agricultural
production to droughts and
dry seasons
- Reduce competition over
space linked to urbanization
will
- Secure diversified food
- Provide cheap source of
proteins
- Preserve environment
- No geopardize
urbanization
The UN system in Palestine