building capacities for disaster risk reduction and community resilience in palestine the un system...
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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
Disaster Managemen
t
Disaster Preparednes
s
Disaster Mitigation
& Resilience
Disaster Risk Reduction in Palestine
Implementing Implementing ImplementingMOFA,
WFPMOI,PCD,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 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;
will
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
will
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
will
Positive outcomes
Backyard gardens and fish ponds
- Secure diversified food
- Provide cheap source of proteins
- Preserve environment- No geopardize
urbanization
will
The UN system in Palestine