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 DroughtsPolitical: Civil Unrest

DRR

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Disaster Risk Reduction in Palestine

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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 Territoryco-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

Citizen Reporting of regular incidents – crowd sourcing;

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Different Solutions according to utility

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;

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

Work plan initiated on February 2013 , on two levels:

Climate Change Adaptation

What is it ? Conditional voucher: work in return for voucher to access food in shops.

1. Greening Palestine: Tree Plantation;.

2. Land rehabilitation and reclamation: building terraces, water channels, and ponds.

Greening Palestine and DRR

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

- Channel the water;- Prevent: floods from

accessing lands, roads and homes; AND loss of livelihood due to droughts;

- Increases land production;

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Positive outcomes

“Rainwater harvesting” and climate change adaptation

Activities on-going since 2011

What is it ?

Cash transfer: involving beneficiaries in water cisterns construction/rehabilitation

1. Rehabilitation of cisterns for herders

2. Construction of cisterns for farmers

Rainwater harvesting and DRR

Water harvesting

- Increase quantity of water available

- Increase predictability of water availability

- Reduce production cost

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Positive outcomes

“Urban Agriculture in Gaza” and resilient cities

Activities on-going since 2011

What is it ?

Technology transfer: Vertical gardens, aquaponics, backyard gardens, fish ponds food diversification and value chain

1. Rooftop gardens: 330 units (vertical and aquaponics)

2. Backyard gardens: 220 rabbit units

3. Fish ponds: 120 unitsThe first tomato harvest from a rooftop aquaponic unit in the Gaza Strip’s Az Zaitoun neighborhoodFAO/Christopher Somerville

Rainwater harvesting and DRR

Roof top gardens

- Increase water efficiency

- Adaption of agricultural production to droughts and dry seasons

- Reduce competition over space linked to urbanization

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Positive outcomes

Backyard gardens and fish ponds

- Secure diversified food

- Provide cheap source of proteins

- Preserve environment- No geopardize

urbanization

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The UN system in Palestine