1. Strengthening Climate Resilience Regional Workshop
on
23rd to 25th June 2010
at
All African Christian conference and Churches
Presented by
Alex Kavili
Technical Accompanier
Livestock Improvement and Breeding project
Livelihoods/DRR Programme

2. Supported by – Trocaire HEARO and GORTA
Location – Ten ASAL districts working with
partners(dioceses of Kitui, Meru,
Lodwar; East Pokot mission; Ishiara and
Wenje parishes, MPIDO,PREMAP, NIA, Baraka
agricultural college
Budget – 800,000 – 1000,000 euros per annum
Beneficiaries – 4,000 households

3.  The project Builds drought resilience of poor
communities and their assets in ASALs
 Over the years, droughts in ASALs have become more
prolonged and recurrent thus leading to loss of
livestock as well as crop failure
 Rainfall has also become more erratic and thus
unreliable leading to poor production outcomes in
livestock and crops farming systems
 From our participatory risk analysis & mappings
events as well as research, it is evident that larger
stocks such as cattle have faced wanton interruption
and in most cases the stocks are either nil or too little
to support households or are too fragile to withstand
drought events.

4.  Against this background, the project sort to
strengthen the small animals systems as a
way of creating better resilience thus
adapting livestock production systems to
climate change realities.
 Small stocks farming though not new in most
of the areas, the project introduces the
concept of supporting an entire “product
chain” as a way or reducing exposure to
climate change/impacts as well as building
the adaptive capacity of people and their
livelihoods assets

5.  The project is based on participatory risk analysis &
mapping events at the community level and chronic
poverty assessment in the targeted areas
 These vulnerability analysis led to an understanding
of the drought hazard, the affected, its
occurrence/frequencies, root causes, existing
capacity, action to be taken etc
 The project designed out of this promotes diversified
livelihoods strategies to tackle climate change.
 With small stocks such as goat and sheep as the main
thrust, the project has the following activities:
 Restocking households whose livestock was
decimated by the 2005/06 drought. About 4,000
households restocked with approximately 30,000
local does and Galla bucks

6.  Community-wide livestock disease control
measures in the targeted areas e.g.
construction of shoat dips, community
agrovet shops, paravets, training etc
 Breeding of local Galla and small east African
breeds to increase production of milk, meat
and sale weight
 Pasture production through agro-forestry,
environmental protection and reseeding

7.  Water provision
 Marketing coupled with micro-credit to
improve incomes and reduce over-
stocking/exposure
 Community level research and documentation
 Advocacy at the national level on Galla breed.

8.  Tackling Exposure to Climate Extremes
 Enhancing Adaptive Capacity
 Addressing Poverty, Vulnerability and their Causes
Exposure to climate extremes
 Conducting PRA and Mapping events to develop
interventions on drought with an inbuilt early warning
 Formation and training community DRR groups and
committees for drought
 Strengthens the small animals production system as a
more appropriate production activity in reducing exposure
to recurrent droughts
 Promotes a product chain development with marketing
and micro-credit integrated to strengthen local economy
and social relations

9.  The project enhances adaptive capacity through
identification and implementation of appropriate and
acceptable livelihoods strategies as per PRA &
mapping exercises that generates risk profiles
 The project trains communities on livelihoods skills
and diversification in particular, offers safety nets
e.g. restocking the most impoverished by drought
and promotes access to markets and credit
 Besides national level advocacy on the Galla breed
and climate change, the project promotes
environmentally friendly livestock production and
environmental rehabilitation at the community level

10.  Knowledge of climate change impact-
through PRAs and mapping
 Research into the nature of chronic poverty in
ASALs

11.  Livestock mortality
 Increase in Food productivity (milk and meat)
 Increase in incomes from sales of the animals
and their products