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Building Capacities for Disaster Risk Reduction and Community Resilience in Palestine

The UN system in Palestine is implementing initiatives to support the Palestinian Civil Defense in disaster risk reduction and community resilience. These initiatives include capacity building, disaster mitigation, and delivering projects in areas such as information management, logistics, and emergency telecoms. Additional projects focus on greening Palestine, water harvesting, land rehabilitation, and urban agriculture. The overall goal is to strengthen the abilities of communities to prepare for and respond to various threats, both natural and political, that Palestine faces.

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Building Capacities for Disaster Risk Reduction and Community Resilience in Palestine

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  1. Building Capacities for Disaster Risk Reduction and Community Resilience in Palestine The UN system in Palestine

  2. Situation in Palestine : Threats Palestine is facing multiple threats: Natural: • Earthquake • Floods • Droughts Political: • Civil Unrest

  3. Disaster Management Disaster Risk Reduction in Palestine Disaster Preparedness DRR Disaster Mitigation & Resilience Implementing Implementing Implementing MOI, PCD, WFP MOFA, WFP MOA, FAO, CRS, WFP

  4. 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

  5. Delivering as One initiative UN agencies in the Palestinian Territory co-operating individual and joint initiatives to support the Palestinian Civil Defense

  6. 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

  7. Areas identified to support PCD Three outputs according to their order of prioritization: • Information management • Logistics • Emergency Telecoms

  8. 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;

  9. 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.

  10. Building resilient livelihood for food security initiative

  11. “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: Greening Palestine: Tree Plantation;. Land rehabilitation and reclamation: building terraces, water channels, and ponds.

  12. 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 • - Channel the water; • Prevent: floods from accessing lands, roads and homes; AND loss of livelihood due to droughts; • Increases land production; will

  13. “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

  14. Rainwater harvesting and DRR Positive outcomes Water harvesting • Increase quantity of water available • Increase predictability of water availability • Reduce production cost will

  15. The first tomato harvest from a rooftop aquaponic unit in the Gaza Strip’s AzZaitoun neighborhood FAO/Christopher Somerville “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 Rooftop gardens: 330 units (vertical and aquaponics) Backyard gardens: 220 rabbit units 3. Fish ponds: 120 units

  16. Rainwater harvesting and DRR Positive outcomes Roof top gardens • Increase water efficiency • Adaption of agricultural production to droughts and dry seasons • Reduce competition over space linked to urbanization will Backyard gardens and fish ponds • Secure diversified food • Provide cheap source of proteins • Preserve environment • No geopardize urbanization will

  17. The UN system in Palestine

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