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Coping with Drought and Climate Change Project Kalu district, Ethiopia MATHEWOS HUNDE Director, Early Warning & Resp

Coping with Drought and Climate Change Project Kalu district, Ethiopia MATHEWOS HUNDE Director, Early Warning & Response Directorate, Ministry of Agriculture. Project area. Kalu Woreda/district in South Wolo Zone, Amhara Regional State

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Coping with Drought and Climate Change Project Kalu district, Ethiopia MATHEWOS HUNDE Director, Early Warning & Resp

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  1. Coping with Drought and Climate Change ProjectKalu district,EthiopiaMATHEWOS HUNDEDirector, Early Warning & Response Directorate, Ministry of Agriculture

  2. Project area • Kalu Woreda/district in South Wolo Zone, Amhara Regional State • Number of targeted beneficiaries: 41,421 in 6 administrative Kebeles (increased to 100,000 overtime)

  3. Location of the project site Kalu

  4. Why Kalu Woreda? • Highly degraded, • Drought prone, • Chronically food insecure, • PSNP Woreda,

  5. Basic Information of the Project • Duration three years (2010-2012) • Implementation started in May 2010 • Total Project budget 995 000 USD • Financer GEF • Lead Agencies UNDP/GEF, MoA/DRMFSS • Implementing Partners: MoA/DRMFSS, MoFED, Woreda respective offices

  6. Overall Objective • To develop and pilot a range of effective coping mechanisms for reducing the vulnerability of farmers particularly women and children to drought and climate changestrict

  7. Outcomes • Livelihood strategies that enhance the resilience of vulnerable farmers to cope with drought and climate change adopted and sustained

  8. Outcomes 2.Enhanced use of early warning information in agricultural systems at the selected pilot sites

  9. Outcomes 3. Farmers outside the pilot sites replicated successful approaches to cope with drought and climate change

  10. Project activities:(climate smart agriculture concept based that generates both adaptation and mitigation benefits): • Early warning information communication, • Crop production (seed provision, IPM, promotion of rice, fruits and vegetables, capacity building), • Animal production (provision of shoats, forage development, bee hives production), • Community based natural resource management, • Irrigation development (gully crossing structure, water harvesting), • Flood protection • Spring prtotection/development • Marketing and value chain (formation of groups, value addition and value chain, marketing) • Environmental protection (environmental protection committees, solid waste management, environmental education, alternative energy sources) • Capacity building

  11. AchievementsEarly Warning Information Communication • Introduced drought information dissemination modalities. • Production and dissemination of weekly weather/drought information by local meteorology and district office of agriculture.

  12. Animal production women champions • Taitu is one of the first beneficiaries of 5 sheep form the project. • After passing five sheep to Yeshi (second beneficiary), Taitu has 9 sheep and plan to have a cow for dairy production. Yeshi & Taitu

  13. Jemal, visionary, young farmer • Before project, young Jemal married but without any income. • He has passed on four sheep to the second beneficiary. • He owns twelve sheep and one ox (brought from the sale of some sheep).  • His life has completely changed due to the project.

  14. Crop production, Water Harvesting, Irrigation… Seid- model farmer • Before the project seid was migratory daily laborer & dependant on food aid for nine months per year. Because of the project, Seid is no more dependent on food aid. He has ten sheep, two oxen, two cows , one calf, two donkeys and an annual income of about USD 4200 Seid

  15. Seid…

  16. Mohamed… • Mohamed, able to harvest 2-3 times more than before the project. He uses the improved high yielding, drought resistant & early maturing crop varieties Chick pea Teff Rice

  17. Integrated Pest Management Without treatment With treatment

  18. Watershed Management • 3049 ha of land area on 6 watersheds rehabilitated . • Through different physical soil conservation measures (trench, eyebrow, terrace, check dam).Constructed on 3049 ha area. • 6 nurseries established. • 892,000 different trees and grasses planted • Productivity of the land and ground water recharging improved .

  19. Watershed Management

  20. Marketing & Value Chain • Production of high Value crop ( Haricot bean, Sesame)

  21. Spring Development • Total beneficieries of the six springs : 3959 (516 children, 1686 women, 1757 men). • Water fetching time reduced 5 times • Time for children to go to school, learning improved by 20% • Improved human & animal health

  22. Capacity building • Trainings, • Replication of leanings/best practices through NGOs and research institutions • Local and international Experience sharing tours Exchange visit in Mozambique Local experience sharing tour Training on IPM

  23. Critical Success factors • Selection of model site & commitment of the beneficiary community

  24. Critical Success factors • High-level government commitment & ownership of the project • Persistent commitment of the district Project Steering Committee members

  25. Critical Success factors • Devoted & unreserved effort & support by UNDP Country office

  26. THANK YOU FOR YOUR ATTENTION!

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