Organisational Baseline for Ethiopia Borana (Click here for a summary of the Organisational Baseline Study)

1. Natural resource management - Low

2 Preparation to withstand extreme events - Low

3 Reduction of risk due to climate variability - None

Allocation of resources to climate related activities

Budget - None

Local Government

Works at local level

Pastoral Development Office (Government)

Land Use and Environmental Protection (Government)

GOAL (NGO)

CARE (NGO)

AFD (NGO)

WFP (International)

Expansion and promotion of education (adult and child) and improvement of quality control

Education on better livestock keeping and crop production (through school children and adult education)

Promotion of watershed based development

Raise awareness on environmental protection and rehabilitation

Environmental science education (through school children and adult education)

Raise awareness on land management and resettlement in a environmentally sound ways

Raise awareness on the importance of savings and income diversification to manage food shortages (through school children and adult education)

Raise awareness about the negative effect of deforestation and positive effect of tree planting (through school children and adult education)

Raise awareness about the timely sale of livestock, not to keep large herd for prestige and diversification into other income generating activities

Raise awareness on fuel efficient stoves (through school children and adult education)

Yabello Wereda Health Office

1 Produce a healthy society (10/10)

Importance of objectives ranked in a scale of 0 to 10 by interviewee are presented in brackets

1 less important and 10 maximum importance

2 Reduce mortality of mother and child (10/10)

3 Provide curative and preventative health services to all (9/10)

Importance given to specific groups ranked in a scale of 0 to 10 are presented in brackets

0 less important and 10 maximum importance

Poor households

Children (4/10)

Children under 5

Reduce mother and child mortality

Women (6/10)

Reduce mother and Child mortality

Female headed households

Pregnant and breast feeding mothers

Mothers with new born babies

1. Natural resource management - Low

2 Preparation to withstand extreme events - Low

3 Reduction of risk due to climate variability - None

Allocation of resources to climate related activities

Budget - Low

Local Government

Works at local level

Wereda Women and Children's Affairs (Government)

GAYO (NGO)

GOAL (NGO)

CARE (NGO)

AFD (NGO)

Health awareness creation, education and behavioural change

Health services

Improve mother and child health

Provide advice on nutrition, to produce more vegetables and hygienic use of animal products meat and milk

Advice on zoonetic diseases

Participated in watershed development and management government scheme

Advise to use locally available foods, such as milk, butter, meat, eggs and vegetables wisely and economically

Provide extension services on weather related outbreaks such as Malaria, AWD, measles, etc., and carry out vaccination for those diseases which have vaccines

Yabello Pastoral and Dryland Agriculture Research Center

2 Natural Resources (8/10)

Importance of objectives ranked in a scale of 0 to 10 by interviewee are presented in brackets

1 less important and 10 maximum importance

1 Livestock (10/10)

3 Crops (6/10)

Importance given to specific groups ranked in a scale of 0 to 10 are presented in brackets

0 less important and 10 maximum importance

1. Natural resource management - High

2 Preparation to withstand extreme events - Mid

3 Reduction of risk due to climate variability - Mid

Allocation of resources to climate related activities

Local, Regional and National Government

Works at local, regional, national and international level

PDO (Government)

CARE (NGO)

ASARECA (International)

Adapt, generate and disseminate technologies needed for sustainable development of rangeland resources; animal feed and rangeland management, soil fertility improvement and management, Dairy, Meat, Agro forestry, Non Timber Forest Product, Horticulture, Bee keeping, cereal crops, pulses and oil crops

Coordinate rangeland outreach and research activities at a national level

Local capacity building and technical backstopping for NGOs, Government and communities

Improve management of rangelands through training, demonstrations and skill upgrading

Improve Animal health and production through training, breed conservation, milk and honey production

Improve feed production

Improve dry-land farming; improved variety, shorter cycle and drought tolerant variety

Gum and incense production

Water harvesting and conservation

Rangeland rehabilitation through enclosure, resting, thinning and prescribed fire

Early Warning and Contingency Planning with ASARECA, to develop a community based early warning and resource management system to increase pastoralists' livelihoods resilience to climate shocks

Research on livestock marketing, milk marketing, NTFP marketing

Yabello Wereda Pastoral Development Office (PDO) (Pastoral Commission)

1 Increased production and productivity (10/10)

Importance of objectives ranked in a scale of 0 to 10 by interviewee are presented in brackets

1 less important and 10 maximum importance

2 Environmental protection (9/10)

3 Introduction of alternative technologies and up scaling (9/10)

4 Identification and scaling up of best practices (8/10)

5 Increase extension and enhance food self reliance (10/10)

Importance given to specific groups ranked in a scale of 0 to 10 are presented in brackets

0 less important and 10 maximum importance

1. Natural resource management - Mid

2 Preparation to withstand extreme events -Low

3 Reduction of risk due to climate variability - Mid

Allocation of resources to climate related activities

Budget - Low

Land Use and Environmental Protection (Government) Pastoral and dryland research (Government) Disaster Prevention and Preparedness (Government)

Productive Safety net Program (PSNP)

SOS Sahel (NGO)

GOAL (NGO)

CARE (NGO)

FAO (NGO)

1 Addressing food security gap to ensure food consumption (10/10)

Importance of objectives ranked in a scale of 0 to 10 by interviewee are presented in brackets

1 less important and 10 maximum importance

2 Asset building/protection at household level; avoid asset depletion for weather/climate related events (9/10)

3 Asset building/protection at community level; avoid asset depletion for weather/climate related events (10/10)

4 Grain market stabilization; stimulating market; improving livestock-grain terms of trade (8/10)

5 Improve work habit (7/10)

6 Improve access to services (8/10)

7 Rehabilitating and enhancing the natural environment (10/10)

Disadvantaged groups (7/10)

Importance given to specific groups ranked in a scale of 0 to 10 are presented in brackets

0 less important and 10 maximum importance

Chronically food insecure households are targeted

1. Natural resource management - High

2 Preparation to withstand extreme events - High

3 Reduction of risk due to climate variability - High

Allocation of resources to climate related activities

Time - Medium

Training/awareness raising - Low

Budget - Medium

Other organisations not local - Not stated

Pastoral Development Office (Government)

Education Office (Government)

Health Office (Government)

Women and Children's Affairs Office (Government)

Land Use and Environment (Government)

Rural Roads (Government)

Water (Government)

Disaster Preparedness and Prevention Office (Government)

Provide food security support to fill food gaps for 6 month to chronically food insecure households (during serious food shortage situation the support can be extended to 9 months)

Provide agricultural hand tools and equipment

Support Construction of Pastoral Training Centres (PTC)

Provide a credit service for income generating activities

Support the establishment of enclosures for pasture conservation for livestock feed

Support management of the rangeland including bush thinning, degraded land rehabilitation and water harvesting

Construction, maintenance and distribution of ponds, cement cisterns and wells in line with availability of pasture to avoid rangeland degradation

Support construction of access roads to markets and public services

Construct veterinary posts for livestock disease control and treatment

Nursery establishment, tree seed collection and tree planting

Watershed management and micro basin development

Environmental Social Management Framework (a kind of Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) report) to be completed for each plan/project (e.g.: road construction, water development, etc...) before being funded and implemented

Build household and community assets and protect them from depletion

Collect weekly grain market price report and pass on to the regional bureau

Stabilize food market prices by injecting either grain or cash

Training is a component in each service provided

Raba Gadda (Customary Institution responsible for Social and development Functions)

1 Water and pasture management (10/10)

Importance of objectives ranked in a scale of 0 to 10 by interviewee are presented in brackets

1 less important and 10 maximum importance

2 Conflict management (9/10)

3 Settlement and movement (8/10)

4 Observation of customary laws and regulations (7/10)

5 Enforcement of social safety net (e.g. livestock redistribution, sharing culture, etc...) (7/10)

Importance given to specific groups ranked in a scale of 0 to 10 are presented in brackets

0 less important and 10 maximum importance

1. Natural resource management - Mid

2 Preparation to withstand extreme events - None

3 Reduction of risk due to climate variability - Mid

Allocation of resources to climate related activities

Budget - None

Government, NGO supported Community Based organisation

Works at local level

Other organisations not local - Not stated

Land Use and environmental Protection Office (Government)

Pastoral Development Office (Government)

International Organisations

CARE

1 Pastoral Livelihood Initiative Phase II (PLI II) project works to protect and strengthen the lives and livelihoods of pastoralists and ex-pastoralists. (10/10)

Importance of objectives ranked in a scale of 0 to 10 by interviewee are presented in brackets

1 less important and 10 maximum importance

2 Regional Resilience Enhancement Against Drought (RREAD) project aims at alleviating the impact of recurrent drought cycles on targeted vulnerable local communities living in pastoral environments and reduce their vulnerability to drought related shocks through improved responses and preparedness activities that enhance their adaptive/coping capacities. (8/10)

3 Water, Sanitation, and Hygiene Transformation For Enhanced Resilience (WATER) project aims at helping poor rural communities in arid and semi arid zones reduce their vulnerability to water related shocks and improve their quality of life through Integrated Water Resources Management. (7/10)

4 Borana Integrated Emergency Nutrition and Drought Disaster Risk Response aims at reducing household vulnerability and protect key assets of drought affected communities in Borana zone of Oromia regional State through integrated livelihood based livestock approach. (6/10)

1 Not Specified

Importance given to specific groups ranked in a scale of 0 to 10 are presented in brackets

0 less important and 10 maximum importance

1. Natural resource management - High

2 Preparation to withstand extreme events - High

3 Reduction of risk due to climate variability - Mid

Community - Yes

Pastoral Development Office (Government) Land Use and Environmental Protection (Government) Cooperative Promotion Office (Government) Trade and Marketing Office (Government)

Other organisations not local - Not stated

Allocation of resources to climate related activities

Time - Medium

Staff - Medium

Budget - Medium

Institution and policy - Low