Building Capacities for Disaster Risk Reduction and Community

Building Capacities for Disaster Risk Reduction and Community Resilience in Palestine The UN system in Palestine

Situation in Palestine : Threats Palestine is facing multiple threats: Natural: § Earthquake § Floods § Droughts Political: § Civil Unrest

Disaster Risk Reduction in Palestine DRR Disaster Management Implementing MOI, PCD, WFP Disaster Preparedness Disaster Mitigation & Resilience Implementing MOFA, WFP MOA, FAO, CRS, WFP

Disaster Management and Preparedness §Capacity Building of communities through E-voucher support; §Capacity Building in support of the Palestinian Civil Defense; Disaster Mitigation & Building Resilience §Conditional Vouchers with : - Greening Palestine - Water Harvesting - Land Rehabilitation

Delivering as One initiative UN agencies in the Palestinian Territory co-operating individual and joint initiatives to support the Palestinian Civil Defense

Support to the Palestinian Civil Defense § Building the Capacities for Disaster Risk Reduction and Community Resilience in Palestine § 16 individual projects to support PCD with a combined value of $7, 6 mill USD

Areas identified to support PCD Three outputs according to their order of prioritization: § Information management § Logistics § Emergency Telecoms

SMS Project Information Management and Emergency Telecoms Mobile Solutions for transforming paper surveys into digital data § Risk assessment – vulnerability and Preparedness Survey; § Disaster assessment – after a disaster occurs; § Citizen Reporting of regular incidents – crowd sourcing; Different Solutions according to utility Poi. M 3. 3 ODK NDG 2. 8 FLSMS Epi. S Ushahidi 2. 3 1. 8 1. 3 0. 8 Q 1 Q 2 Q 3 Q 4 Q 5

Benefits § Projects will support the Civil Defenses mandate as principle humanitarian coordinator for the Palestinian Authority in times of emergency and disaster. § Collaborative initiatives with other actors strengthen all programmes and delivers maximum value for the international communities investments. § Resilience focused projects for both the PCD and the community ensure that long-term sustainability is achieved.

Building resilient livelihood for food security initiative

“Greening Palestine” and Climate Change Adaptation What is it ? Conditional voucher: work in return for voucher to access food in shops. Work plan initiated on February 2013 , on two levels: 1. Greening Palestine: Tree Plantation; . 2. Land rehabilitation and reclamation: building terraces, water channels, and ponds.

Greening Palestine and DRR Positive outcomes Tree Plantation: § Protects the land from soil erosion; § Increases flora in the territory which will : § Helps decrease pollution and ameliorate atmospheric conditions; Land rehabilitation: Building terraces, water channels ponds will - Channel the water; -Prevent: floods from accessing lands, roads and homes; AND loss of livelihood due to droughts; -Increases land production;

“Rainwater harvesting” and climate change adaptation § What is it ? Cash transfer: involving beneficiaries in water cisterns construction/rehabilitation Activities on-going since 2011 1. Rehabilitation of cisterns for herders 2. Construction of cisterns for farmers

Rainwater harvesting and DRR Positive outcomes Water harvesting will -Increase quantity of water available - Increase predictability of water availability - Reduce production cost

“Urban Agriculture in Gaza” and resilient cities § What is it ? Technology transfer: Vertical gardens, aquaponics, backyard gardens, fish ponds food diversification and value chain Activities on-going since 2011 1. Rooftop gardens: 330 units (vertical and aquaponics) 2. Backyard gardens: 220 rabbit units 3. Fish ponds: 120 units The first tomato harvest from a rooftop aquaponic unit in the Gaza Strip’s Az Zaitoun neighborhood FAO/Christopher Somerville

Rainwater harvesting and DRR Positive outcomes Roof top gardens Backyard gardens and fish ponds will - Increase water efficiency - Adaption of agricultural production to droughts and dry seasons - Reduce competition over space linked to urbanization will - Secure diversified food - Provide cheap source of proteins - Preserve environment - No geopardize urbanization

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