Thumbnail Image

Enhancing resilience of cross-border communities: the Mandera cluster

Building resilience: a policy brief series No. 10

Year of publication 2018

Place of publication Rome, Italy ;

Publisher FAO ;

Product type Policy brief

Category Policy brief

Series number 9

Edition 1

Synopsis (short abstract) To enhance the resilience of communities in selected cross-border areas, FAO and IGAD established the Partnership Programme on Drought Resilience. The baseline survey was carried out in what is referred to as the Mandera Cluster, including cross-border sites of Ethiopia (Dolo Ado and Dolo Bay), Kenya (Mandera county) and Somalia (Dolow and Belet Hawa). This brief provides guidance on policy planning for cross-border resilience programming.

Language English

Also available in:
No results found.

Related items

Showing items related by metadata.

  • Thumbnail Image
    Brochure, flyer, fact-sheet
    Brochure
    Cross-border coordination of livestock movements and sharing of natural resources to strengthen the resilience of pastoralist communities in the Greater Karamoja Cluster
    Operationalising the humanitarian-development-peace nexus through the promotion of intercommunity coexistence
    2019
    Also available in:
    No results found.
    Frequent and persistent droughts are a recurrent feature of the Greater Karamoja Cluster (GKC). The impacts of these droughts are exacerbated by climate change, advancing desertification and the environmental degradation of rangelands. The resulting persistent food insecurity of pastoralist communities is worsened by the occurence of transboundary animal diseases (TADs) and the eruption of conflicts over natural resources within countries and across borders. The Food and Agriculture Organization’s (FAO) decade-long work in the GKC shows that interventions focusing on livestock mobility and natural resource management play an important role towards strengthening livelihoods, sustaining peace and indirectly preventing conflict. More specifically, the sustainable cross-border sharing of natural resources and the coordination of animal movements (and the services associated with it, such as vaccination and health inspection) have been used effectively by FAO and its partners to prevent and mitigate conflicts. Interventions combining a focus on livestock mobility and the preservation of natural resources with the goals of sustainable social transformation, innovation and conflict prevention have proved most cost-effective at increasing resilience. FAO and the Intergovernmental Authority on Development’s (IGAD) Centre for Pastoral Areas and Livestock Development (ICPALD) have been the main facilitators of efforts to promote intercommunity, cross-border coordination of livestock mobility and sharing of natural resources in IGAD cross-border areas. This document presents FAO’s experience in this respect, gained over the past decade in different cross-border areas of Ethiopia, Kenya, Uganda and South Sudan.
  • Thumbnail Image
    Project
    Factsheet
    Enhancing the Resilience of Communities in Cross-Border Areas of Ethiopia, Kenya and Somalia - GCP/SFE/261/SWI 2019
    Also available in:
    No results found.
    The Horn of Africa is one of the most food-insecure regions in the world, with pastoral and agropastoral communities in the region increasingly vulnerable to growing pressures on natural resources, upon which they depend for survival. Addressing these challenges requires mechanisms and policies that reduce communities’ exposure to these risks. Building their capacities will ensure their long-term sustainability to cope with future disasters. The Partnership Programme between FAO and IGAD was designed to enhance the resilience of communities in cross-border areas of Ethiopia, Kenya and Somalia, coupled with the strengthening of IGAD’s capacity –particularly the specialized institutions –to effectively lead and facilitate interaction among its member states on policy and investments, thereby fostering the delivery of cross-border resilience.
  • Thumbnail Image
    Project
    Factsheet
    Building the Resilience of Vulnerable Communities in Cross-Border Areas of Ethiopia, Kenya and Somalia - GCP/SFE/005/IGA 2022
    Also available in:
    No results found.
    The objective of this project was to build the resilience of vulnerable communities in five cross border areas in arid and semi arid lands (ASAL) of Ethiopia, Kenya and Somalia by working towards the Priority Intervention Areas (PIAs) of the Intergovernmental Authority on Development (IGAD) Drought Disaster Resilience Sustainability Initiative (IDDRSI), which are: (1) Natural Resources and Environment Management; (2) Market Access, Trade and Financial Services; (3) Enhanced Production and Livelihood Diversification; (4) Disaster Risk Management; (5) Research, Knowledge Management and Technology Transfer; (6) Peace Building, Conflict Prevention and Resolution; (7) Institutional Strengthening, Coordination and Partnerships; and (8) Human Capital, Gender and Social Development. The interventions targeted pastoralist and agropastoralist communities and focused on strengthening capacities in drought prediction and monitoring, supporting the development of resilience related policies, and boosting investments in local communities.
Show more

Users also downloaded

Showing related downloaded files

No results found.