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CULTURE INFORMATION PASTORALIST DEVELOPMENT

P.O BOX 302 – 60700 MOYALE

Email: [email-masked]

Culture information pastoralist development is a community based organization operating in Obbu and Uran division of Sololo district. CIPAD is a non-political and non-profit making organization working for the betterment of the Sololo community.

The organization is registered with the ministry of gender, culture and social services Moyale district in 2004.

Program coordinator and program officers are daily managing the organization affairs.

CIPAD is guided by vision and mission statement below.

VISION

CIPAD aspire to see healthy and enlightened community.

MISSION

CIPAD mission statements, is to contribute to improvements of people’s health, education and build their capacities to participate in decision making process for sustainable development.

CORE VALUES

CIPAD is committed to the values and principles stated here below-:

·         Team work and co-operation.

·         Trust, transparency and accountability.

·         Committed, honesty and sincerity.

·         Inter-sect oral collaboration and networking.

·         Gender mainstreaming in development.

·         Environmental sensitivity.

·         Respect humanity, human dignity and community culture.

THEMATIC SECTOR FOR DEVELOPMENT

CIPAD focuses the four (4) thematic sectors for development interventions;-

·         Education - pastoralist education programme-( PEP)

·         Human health and vulnerable peoples.

·         Natural resources, environment, water and sanitation (NEWS).

·         Preservation of positive Boorana culture

·         Humanitarian support and emergency response –drought.

CURRENT DROUGHT SITUATION OVERVIEW

According to the report presented by the district steering group during the ECHO visit to Moyale and Sololo in July 2011.

The current drought situation has been aggravated by the fact that the long rainfall assessed has completely failed leading to complete crop failure, poor regeneration of crop and pasture, acute shortage of water for both human and livestock use.

Food insecurity has increased at the household level leading to high cases of malnutrition which is more severe to those under five years (5) children.

Livestock herds have migrated towards Isiolo with some crossing bonder to Ethiopia in search of pasture and water.

According to the monthly bulletin of arid land resource management project (ALRMP, MOYALE); the situation has worsened with livestock prices coming down drastically. For instance price for cattle has hit a low of kshs 3,000. Goat kshs 2000 and camel kshs 20,000.

Deaths in livestock are reported to be at 4.6% for cattle, 2.68% for sheep, 1.26% for goats and 2.38% for camel in Moyale and Sololo.

The district steering group comprising of heads of departments, civil society organization and private sector has been spearheading relief food distribution efforts and several peace meeting held by the district peace and reconciliation committee to handle cases of conflict over the resources use within the district.

Few pans have been filled by the torrential floods from the Ethiopia highlands with the lowlands still dry with no water for livestock use with distance averaging 4.5 km with 1 hour spent, feeds  for grazers have not been able to replenish with few browse for camels only.

DROUGHT CHALLENGES.

The prevailing drought has posed a serious challenges to human and livestock population in the district, human and livestock survival has been affected due to:-

a) Food insecurity- both human and livestock are food insecure due to climate condition, scarce food for human being and pasture for livestock feed. Resources are also currently diverted leaving very few resources for development activities. Sololo currently relies on relief food.

b) Water- inadequate water for domestic and livestock use. Long rainfall is short and unreliable. The ground water resource is low and saline because of the basement rock system. This posed a serious challenge to long term water development.

c) Illiteracy-due to prevailing poverty situation among the population, there is high rate of school dropout and poor transition level from primary to secondary schools and tertiary colleges that have mainly contributed to the high rate and stagnant human resources development.

d) Unemployment- youth in the area comprises of the majority population. Due to unemployment, they were hardly hit by drought. The situation has been worsened by drug and substance abuse.

PROPOSED DROUGHT MITIGATION FOR SCHOOLS

The general intervention measures and drought mitigation in the district target general communities and livestock population only.

Institution in the district such as schools and dispensaries were not considered due to oversight and community stresses.

This has posed unhygienic in health related issues both for patients and students population and health personnel in rural setup.

Soon the school will be opened by 5th of September 2011; there will be challenges of water shortage for cooking and drinking for schools children and teachers.

World food programme (WFP) has supplied enough food for schools in the district for sustenance and progression.

No any other development actors in the district undertaking drought schools emergency water related issues.  Due to this unplanned situation for schools drought mitigation measures, CIPAD with possible external support, would like to intervene on emergency water trucking for general schools in Sololo districts for the next 90 days of drought emergency period (Sept to Dec 2011), this is for the drought period ahead with no possible rainfall before short rainfall begins.

OBJECTIVES

1.      Enhance personal hygiene and food safety

2.      Retention of school children in school especially girl child

3.      Prevention of water borne diseases out break among in schools

TARGET SCHOOL

The target school for emergency water tracking in the next 90 days will be preferably for the hard hit areas of drought. The priority will be given to;-

1.     Amballo, ,

2.     Dadacha ellelle,

3.      sololo makutano ,

4.     Damballa fachana,

5.     Mukhugura ,

6.     Wayegodha,

7.     Mado adhi,

8.     Sololo town (ramatta)

9.     Ramolle

10. Anona primary schools.

11. Hawecha girls primary school

12.  funan qumbi school

13. Rawaana primary school

This is to effectively address the remaining drought period in terms of short term intervention

ACTIVITIES DESCRIPTION

·       Hire water boozer for 72 @KShs 10,000 for 12 schools, 2 trips per school per month seriously hit by drought.

·         Support allowance for one officer in charge for water distribution responsibility for only drought period. The duties attached is to follow all trips to each school, have head teacher to s1gn for the water

·         Write activity report for the donor

·         Supervise all water distribution for guardians of OVC and  community members

BUDGET ESTIMATION COST.

NO

DESCRIPTION

No of schools

Trips / school /month

Expected period of program

Total  TRIPS

UNIT COST

TOTAL COST

1

Water tankering for primary schools in Sololo district

12

2

90 days

72

10,000

720,000

2

Purchase of plastic tank for school without adequate water storage facilities

4 tanks  of 8,000 litres

60,000

240,000

3

Allowance for 1 program officer in charge of distribution

3 months

30,000

90,000

Total cost KShs =

1,050,000

NETWORKING AND COLLABORATION

CIPAD will strongly network and collaborate with other development actors in the district both for Sololo and Moyale in water emergency related issues:-

I.            Ministry of water- carries out fuel subsidies to borehole and vehicle maintenance.

II.            ARID LANDS- carry out emergency borehole repair and maintenance.

III.            CIFA/ CORDAID- carryout boreholes spare parts tools provision and maintenances.

IV.            CIPAD- proposed emergency water trucking for 13 schools in Sololo.

APPEAL

CIPAD appeals to individuals’ contributions, mondeco, well-wishers, humanitarian aid and Italian organization to intervene and support this proposed drought mitigation for schools children in Sololo.

Planed use of water

1.      Cooking of school feeding programme foods in the school

2.      Washing and cooking for schools with boarding facilities like Sololo Raamata, Anona, and Hawecha girls

DISTRIBUTION PLAN

1.      Each school will get 15,000 litres of water 2 twice per month

2.      Incase water is left in the boozer  it will assist the elderly persons in the village

3.      The head teacher will sign for all the trips of water received for accountability

4.      Distribution will continue until short rain is received

Hiring of water boozer

1.       The water boozer will be hired from ministry of water.

2. The water boozer has a capacity of 15,000 liters.

3. The water will be Available at Walda borehole with alternative being Uran borehole

2.       Target school is 13 in the drought hard hit areas of Sololo district.

The following are the description of enrolment and schools water storage

Facilities.

No.  Name of school enrolment tanks per   school

1 amballo   primary school 150- 1tank

2 funan   qumbi 50 – 1tank

3 dadach   ellelle 182- 2 tank

4 rawana 240-  1tank

5 sololo   makutano 330- 4tank

6 dambala   fachana 310- 2tank

7 mukhgura 54-  2tank

8 waye   goda 295- 1tank

9 mado   adhi 320- 2tanks

10 Sololo   Raamata 620-  4tanks

11 raamole 192-  2tank

12 Anona 720 -4tank

13. hawecha girls primary school approx 300

TOTAL ENROLLEMENT 3,763

3,763 pupils are expected to benefit from the proposed drought water trucking

for schools in Sololo district with 26 tanks for water storage available.

Ø  The consultation with arid land to intervene and support in line with other

Actors are ongoing

1.      School head teachers have also made initiative to mobilize resources to hire water boozer

2.      CIPAD is collaborating with DEO Sololo to identify the most needy schools for water tankering

IN PUT MADE BY

GUFU GUYO

COORDINATOR CIPAD