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: mesfinba05@yahoo.com Sakhoudia Thiam: thiamsak@yahoo.fr Sumire Doi: doi.sumire@jica.go.jp Hajime Nabeta: nabeta.hajime@jica.go.jp