Strengthening Human Security by Enhancing Resilience to Natural Disasters and Climate-related Threats in Ngororero District

Rwanda has had to cope with a wide range of insecurities in the past decades. Nowadays, it is mostly threatened by a range of natural hazards including floods, landslides, droughts and earthquakes. Small landholding farmers are particularly vulnerable to environmental degradation reducing agricultural productivity and undermining food and nutritional security. The Ngororero district where the majority are subsistence farmers, is the second poorest in Rwanda and 79% of its total area is susceptible to landslides.

The main goal of the programme is to enhance resilience and improve disaster risk management of vulnerable communities through an integrated, multisectoral and community-based approach. The programme is centered around four objectives: (i) reduce the impact of natural disasters to communities and their livelihoods through risk mitigation measures and enhanced preparedness; (ii) decrease vulnerability to disasters and climate-related threats by providing access to alternative livelihoods and skills development to broaden options for income-generation; (iii) facilitate access to improved hygiene and sanitation services, primary health care, maternal and reproductive health services as well as prevention and management of sexual and gender-based violence in disaster-prone communities; and (iv) disseminate lessons learned and best practices of the programme to promote replication and sustainability as well as mainstream the human security approach in disaster risk reduction and management.

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Programme Summary
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