IMPROVED CLIMATE CHANGE ADAPTIVE CAPACITY ON FARMERS IN CARO – MALKO AND GARABCAD VILLAGES

HAVOYOCO is implementing pastoral and agro-pastoral economy project in Somaliland funded by DF, the project’s target locations include Caro – Malko and Garabcad villages of Gabiley district. The project aims to enhance at household and community level the capacity to anticipate, prepare for, appropriately respond to, and cope with, the impacts of natural and man-made hazards on livelihoods and assets,  the need for a systematic integration of scientific and official hazard of early warning  as well as Create and enhance a disaster risk reduction culture at household level, community and institutional levels that hinges on periodic and simplified hazard assessment and create a pool of trained personnel on disaster and hazard

On June, 2017- HAVOYOCO organized climate change training in Garab-cad and Caro-malko villages, in each village 30 participants (50% being female) were selected as participants’

The main objectives of the workshop were to train community members on climatic changes and DRR concepts, Familiarize the causes and consequences of climate changes, Create a room for experience sharing between different socio-economic groups of the community, as well as Identify that drought is the main disaster in the target locations, and to know the trend of climatic changes in target locations.

The Thematic Areas Covered During the Workshop include

• Introduction to DRR
• Vulnerability assessment
• How recent droughts affected the environment
• Linkage between climate change and disaster
• Drought preparedness and mitigation
• Hazard assessment and role of women and youth in decision making
• Ways of protecting the environment

During the training, the participants deeply discussed the characteristics of their own climate, ways of carrying out vulnerability assessment as well as adaptation mechanism of frequent hazards mainly drought including For instance the participants from Caro-Malko and Garab cad villages, identified the following as a tool of minimizing their vulnerability to drought including Reinforcing  government to set environmental policies, Establishment of Food and water reserves,  Establishing pastoral association committees, creation of seasonal range reserves through Employment creation/food or cash for work for example rehabilitation of communal assets (roads/ water Berkeds/land reserving), Construction of Dams and borehole as well as  Women empowerment activities, such as creating women centers.