A step towards resilience: joint initiatives addressing protracted crisis in Somali Region-Ethiopia

This book is a compilation of stories, bringing together several partners to replicate and up-scale an integrated approach for resilience, linking disaster risk reduction, climate change adaptation and ecosystem management and restoration. The programme worked directly on water and food security by protecting and restoring natural resources.

The methodology used for the preparation of the writeshop, the simultaneous documentation of lessons learnt during the programme, the extensive use of photographs and the unique editorial strategies, make this book an exciting addition to the big catalogue of literature on resilience.

The book picks a few success stories emerging from the water storage infrastructure for both human and animal consumption, improved incomes from growing fast maturing crops, availability of technical services provided by community animal health workers (CAHWs) at community level and the organisation of community groups (especially vulnerable women) into savings and milk marketing groups to help diversify livelihoods.