Project Facts: Duration: Phase II (01.05.2008 – 31.03.2010)
Total Budget: CHF 456,121
SDC contribution: CHF 228,000
Location: Republic Tajikistan
Partner: Committee of Emergency Situations of Tajikistan
Implementing Agency: CARITAS - Switzerland
Donors: Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC), CARITAS – Switzerland
Background The Muminabad area is a particularly typical location where the natural disaster situation has a strong and complex relation to ecological conditions as well as to local development issues. Deforestation - due to lack of alternative energy resources - as well as increasing land use for agriculture and overgrazing in the watersheds above Muminabad town play an important role in the destabilisation of the natural environment. The most vulnerable groups in society depend on the freely available and unregulated resources in the watershed area. Therefore, the management of natural disasters demands a more integrated approach that goes beyond combating occurring hazards and their impacts. Although there seems to be growing awareness among the inhabitants and the responsible local authorities in the risk-prone areas, the weak financial situation of the government makes it difficult to cope with the natural risks in an appropriate and sustainable way.
Project description The project Natural Disaster Risk Management (NDRM) Phase II is the consequent follow- up of NDRM phase I and it embeds in a three phase program of NDRM (2007 – 2011).
The project strengthens and interlinks the cooperation between public services and civil society organizations. It foresees the use of innovatory tools in a systematic and integrated manner.
Overall Goal
The overall goal of the project is to reduce the natural hazard risks in inhabited areas through introduction of an integrated disaster risk management in the Muminabad district by increasing the coping capacity of local government, civil society organisations and the population at large and thus leading to an improved and sustainable safety situation.
Project objectives
Elaboration of disaster risk management plan and its integration into the development planning of the district (Muminabad).
Building of the capacity of the government, private sector and civil society to actively cope with natural disasters.
Improvement of the stability of soil and reduction of land erosion through application of the integrated watershed management.
Introduction of Risk Assessment Tool at zonal and national levels. The tool can be used for assessment of natural risks by different NGOs and Committee of Emergency Situations and Civil Defence.
Contacts:
Swiss Cooperation Office in TajikistanMrs. Manzura Nazaramonova
National Program Officer
3, Tolstoy Street, Dushanbe, Tajikistan
Phone: +(992 37) 224 73 16
Phone/ Fax: +(992 44) 600 54 55
e-mail: dushanbe@sdc.net, manzura.nazaramonova@sdc.net
web: http://www.swiss-cooperation.admin.ch/centralasia/; www.deza.admin.ch; http://www.seco-cooperation.ch/
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