ECHO Drought Risk Reduction Action Plan for the Horn of Africa Region ( ) (Kenya, Uganda, Ethiopia, Djibouti)

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1 ECHO Drought Risk Reduction Action Plan for the Horn of Africa Region ( ) (Kenya, Uganda, Ethiopia, Djibouti) DRRAP Partners planning meeting Naivasha, July 2012

2 DG Humanitarian Aid and Civil Protection - The European Community Humanitarian Office (ECHO) was created in In 2004, ECHO became the Directorate-General for Humanitarian Aid. - In 2010, Civil Protection was integrated for a better coordination and disaster response inside and outside Europe.

3 DG Humanitarian Aid and Civil Protection Since 1992, ECHO has mobilised around 14 billion to help victims of conflict and disasters in over 140 countries around the globe. Every year since 2007, ECHO has provided an average of 1 billion, helping nearly 150 million people among the world's most vulnerable populations.

4 DG Humanitarian Aid and Civil Protection Kristalina Georgieva Commissioner for International Cooperation, Humanitarian Aid and Crisis Response

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6 Where does the money go? Strategy priorities Horn of Africa ( 102 million) Sudan North and South ( 87 million) Congo RDC ( 44 million), Occupied Palestinian Territories ( 40 million) Sahel ( 45 million)

7 EU/ECHO and Disaster Risk Reduction EU Consensus on Humanitarian Aid Dec 2007 The EU Communication on the EU Strategy on DRR for developing countries Feb 2009 ECHO Policy Guidelines on DRR Under preparation Hyogo framework for Action (HFA) AU Programme of Action for the Implementation of the Africa Regional Strategy for Disaster Risk Reduction ( )

8 ECHO DRR areas of intervention Mainstreaming integrate DRR/CCA into response Targeted Action Dipecho Drought Epidemic Advocacy Capacity Development

9 Complementarities with other services from the European Commission DEVCO National and regional programmes Institutional Programmes Mid and long term Programmes Large scale prevention and mitigation programmes DEVCO PREVENTION MITIGATION PREPARATION RESPONSE ECHO ECHO Programme focusing on communities Programmes working with local actors Programmes located in isolated areas, not necessarily considered as priorities by other actors Programmes in post crisis contexts, where the population is receptive to DRR With an eye on short term preparedness programmes

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11 DRRAP background Substantial qualitative lessons learnt produced in the framework of the past drought risk reduction funding decisions Consultation processes (stock taking) with DRR stakeholders, October - November guiding frameworks: EU co-operation: EU Strategy supporting Disaster Risk Reduction in developing countries, adopted in February Implementation Plan Hyogo Framework for Action AU - Programme of Action for the Implementation of the Africa Regional Strategy for Disaster Risk Reduction ( )

12 Objective of the DRRAP: Increase resilience and reduce vulnerability in local communities through support to strategies to mitigate and respond to drought Fostering appropriate and sustainable preparedness activities (coordinated with national institutions, easily replicated) Reinforcing local response capacities and mechanisms Focusing on the areas most exposed to frequent droughts and with less coping capacities Targeting the most vulnerable communities Supporting small-scale mitigation activities Supporting actions related to build an evidence-based advocacy and awareness strategy

13 DRRAP scope and approach: Community-based approach with articulation to policy level Innovative measures reinforcing local capacities and systems (successful models for replication) to pilot innovative approaches that can be replicated/scaled up by development actors once they prove their efficiency and effectiveness Within existing DRR frameworks Documentation/ Dissemination of information to demonstrate measures and initiatives at community-level that can serve as components of integrated disaster risk reduction strategies for a municipality, district or even at national level Advocacy towards mainstreaming disaster risk reduction into development cooperation The challenge ahead is to ensure that disaster risk reduction becomes an integral part of sustainable development policy Timeline and phases 18 months max Resources alternative funding source for actions that are eligible for other medium to long term funding instruments

14 DRRAP priorities 1. Building on the achievement of the past decisions, continue supporting Drought Risk Reduction, community-based operations =>Pilot DRR actions to bring solutions to the communities and cover gaps within existing DRR framework =>Attention to the vulnerabilities 2. Develop a library of well-documented, context-specific experiences through good monitoring, evaluation, and operational research critical for advocacy (capitalisation) 3. Dissemination of lessons learnt, share of good practices => Influencing JOINTLY government and development decision makers to implement lessons learnt and good practices

15 State of play: actions considered under this financial decision (20,000,000 ) ETHIOPIA DJIBOUTI UGANDA Kenya*** Country 47% ACF DCA HelpAge Caritas VSF Suisse SC UK FAO ACF ACF/IUCN La Niña Cross-Border 31% Uganda- Kenya Kenya Ethiopia Ethiopia - Somaliland DCA (ACTED, C&D, Caritas Moroto) CARE COOPI CORDAID VSF G OXFAM GB Regional 22% FAO (Kenya, Ethiopia, Uganda) UNISDR (Kenya, Ethiopia, Uganda) REGLAP UNDP UNICEF (Djibouti, Kenya) IFRC (Uganda, Kenya)

16 Workshop specific expectations 1. Insure that what we ve learned from the past drought risk reduction funding decisions is implemented: no need to reinvent the wheel! Community organisation (CMDRR, VICOBA, PFS, etc ) Preparedness actions (VCA, Contingency plans, EWS, etc ) Mitigation actions (management natural resource water and rangeland, CAHWS, Fodder Production, livestock marketing / de-stocking, livelihood diversification & strengthening, etc ) 2. Identify the critical steps needed to take the lessons learnt from/for practitioners at another level to really influence the development agenda 3. Strengthen synergies between regional support projects (FAO, REGLAP consortium, UN ISDR, UNDP, UNICEF) and country, cross border projects: use of technical support available Agree on joint/shared strategies (learning, communication, advocacy) among country/ cross border and regional partners recognizing specific agencies comparative advantage

17 Workshop expected outcome Country/ regional implementation plans ensuring that DRR information and good practices are trickled down to field staff and local partners and are taken up jointly to policy and decision makers through shared communication and advocacy strategies.

18 The challenges: how to increase the impact of our actions? Think of the processes beyond the project What are our good practices criteria? What exactly is to be scaled up to achieve large-scale impact? technologies, processes, projects, innovations, methodologies? Think of transition (or transformation) rather than exit Anchor any CDRR action within existing contextual system (government), frameworks (e.g. PRSP, MDG) and processes (decentralization) Find the balance between government-led/top down processes and community-driven/bottom-up measures

19 A ground of opportunities Ex. Drought Contingency Fund (DCF) under National Drought Management Authority (NDMA) (Kenya): NDMA: provides a legal basis and statutory underpinning for activities related to drought management support co-ordination and general supervision (support to District Steering Groups and to the formulation of contingency plans) provision of drought and food security related information (DEWS) and mechanisms to trigger the funds ECHO partners: Grass roots capacity building to inform District Steering Committees and Contingency Plans and to provide additional implementation capacity

20 A ground of opportunities a momentum following the 2010/2011 drought While still recovering from previous droughts 2008/9 drought High levels of malnutrition - 13 million people affected => system failure High media attention and High level meeting in the Horn of Africa Donors and governments' commitment to engage towards resilience by aligning humanitarian aid with development to build resilience and to do business differently in both areas IGAD Drought Resilience in the Horn of Africa (Regional/ National platform) // Global Alliance for Action for Drought, Resilience and Growth EU - SHARE, USAID - Feed the future, DFID social protection and resilience agenda, World Bank Government initiatives (End Drought Emergency, Kenya, etc.)

21 Doing business differently : challenges Coordination Many actors at many levels Relation between national and regional levels Humanitarian cluster vs. development sectoral coordination mechanisms Global alliance for coordination (work in progress) Alignment of Humanitarian and Development Aid IGAD vs. Country strategies With other donors: USAID, WB, EU/ECHO, DFID, etc. Strategy and Programming Joint programming needs to be preceded by joint strategy for development Beyond the programming phase (allocation of time/ resources) Doing business differently Moving away from start-stop Humanitarian action Paradigm shift towards finding ways to expand and contract long term investments to cover transitory/ emergency needs (e.g. social protection programmes) Define jointly target population/ beneficiaries Challenging conventional ways of working that clearly do not work. Overcoming resistance to change and vested interest.

22 SHARE: Supporting Horn of Africa REsilience Programming Objective to align humanitarian and development agendas to build resilience Used the Joint Humanitarian and Development Framework (JHDF) nature of the crisis affected population causes of food insecurity already programmed EU interventions and others, future EU interventions and strategic priorities Coordination Critical roles for IGAD, National Governments and developemnt partners

23 Two phased approach: Medium Term: 4 countries ( ): 271,75 M Re-orientation of the 10 th EDF; Food Security Thematic Programme (FSTP) Instrument for Stability ECHO: 2012 HIP (DRR, preparedness) +ECHO EDF decision - 22 M Long-term Engagement - 8 countries ( ) 8 themes identified during SHARE process 11 th EDF Programming Global Alliance for Drought Resilience and Growth EU Communication on Resilience

24 Thank you... For more information: DG ECHO Humanitarian Aid and Civil Protection European Commission - Humanitarian Aid & Civil Protection (ECHO) EU humanitarian