REGIS-ER
Resilience and Economic Growth in the Sahel –
Enhanced Resilience
4 objectives of REGIS-ER:
• Strengthened and sustainable livelihoods (well-being)
OVERALL GOAL: INCREASED RESILIENCE
• Strengthened governance, institutions, natural resource management (conflict management through prevention)
• Improved health, nutrition, and access to potable water
• Framework provided for emergency aid in case of external shocks or disasters
REGIS-ER capitalizes on lessons and achieve-ments from other CLUSA interventions
• Niger-Moringa Project (nutrition; profit from sales)
• Niger-Arziki Project (climate change adaptation; animal fattening; warehouse warranties; BDL)
• Other projects in the region
Senegal-Yaajeendé: Community-based solution provider network; Nutrition-Led Agriculture
Senegal-Wula Nafaa: Local Conventions and natural resource management as part of good governance
Selection of intervention sites
• Area containing the most vulnerable populations, or FFP site
• Village where no interventions have yet taken place
REGIS-ER: Regional teams
Niamey
Maradi
Cluster Team
Cluster Team
Zinder
Cluster Team
Cluster Team
Tillabéry North
Cluster Team
Cluster Team
Tillabéry South
Cluster Team
Cluster Team
Ouagadougou
Dori
Cluster Team
Kaya
Cluster Team
Cluster Team
Bogande
Cluster Team
3 REGIS-ER components work together toward common objectives of strengthened resilience :
• Well-Being • Governance • Health/Nutri.
"LIVELIHOODS" (Economic Well-Being) Component Examples of activities
Animal fattening; making and storing animal food
Built structures to slow down and capture rainwater (CCA)
Home-based nutrition gardens (moringa and baobab, vegetables)
Biological Reclamation of degraded lands (BDL)
Solar system Annual cost 20% of
motor pump
Zero maintenance
10 years life
Water is free!
Environmental friendly
And women love it!
The Three Components of Moringa Oasis Moringa plus vegetables, Fruit trees nursery, Fruit trees plantations
Moringa intercropped with vegetables. Oasis agriculture
Fruit trees nursery. Income and service to the community
Governance and Natural Resource Management Component - Examples of activities
• Resolution of conflicts between herders and farmers over resource use
• Preparation of land use maps (POAS) and Local Conventions with commonly-agreed rules
• Early warning systems brought down to the commune level using an existing national plan
• Regular coordination meetings with government resilience strategy orgs (3N, Rural Sector Program)
Health and Nutrition Component Examples of activities
Gardening and Nutrition
• Community /school and home-based gardens
• Minimum: 2 moringa and 2 baobab trees in each home garden; grafted fruit trees
• Emphasis on mother and infant foods to reduce malnutrition
Water, Hygiene, Sanitation
• Construct multi-user water sources (separate animals/ humans)
• Assistance for village water and sanitation committees
• Access to low-cost techno-logies (latrines, tippy tap...)
• Health services quality improvement committees
Social and Behavior Change Communications (SBCC)
Principles
• Focus on small, do-able actions, not just knowledge
• Build on existing values, approaches and concerns
• Provide triggers, levers and support for trial and adoption of improved behaviors
• Based on analysis of factors that facilitate or block uptake of behaviors
Strategy and Methods
• Overarching project strategy: multi-media (radio-focused) participatory, integrated
• Linking of media interventions with peer group, interpersonal discussions, and job aids
• Harmonize demand creation and supply
Cross-cutting activities
Small grants • Kits with training available to
the most vulnerable
• Climate change adaptation cost sharing
• Local Development Plans
Training
• Irrigation technologies for vegetable and animal feed production
• BDS and literacy training
Gender • Appropriate economic
activities reserved for women (BDL, nutrition...)
• Target: at least half the CBSPs = women
Communications and behavior
• Media sensitization on markets , technology, conflict issues
• Social behavior change in sanitation, climate change, family planning, nutrition topics
REGIS-ER PARTNERS (partial list)
Niger - 3N, Ministries, others:
• HEALTH: SPRING, URC, Plan,
Xood-Nooma...
• LIVESTOCK: AREN
• EMERGENCY PLANNING:
DNPGCC, Red Cross, FEWSnet,
Mercy Corps, Ministries
• CONFLICTS: COFOB, OIM, MUSU,
EU, GENOVICO
• NRM: USGS/EROS, IGN/N...
• FINANCES: Kokari, ASUSU...
Burkina Faso - National Rural Sector Program, Ministries, others:
• HEALTH: SPRING, URC, OXFAM, Mwangaza...
• LIVESTOCK : A2N
• EMERGENCY PLANNING: CONASUR, Red Cross, FEWSnet, Ministries
• CONFLICTS: CFV, OIM, EU, GENOVICO
• NRM: USGS/EROS, IGN/BF, NewTree
• FINANCES: TINTUA, RCBP...
!FAMILY PLANNING!
The inexorable growth of Sub Saharan African population in the next 40 years will complicate
agricultural solutions developed for today’s problems. Barbara Boyle Torrey
• Pop. Niger 2014 = 17 millions
• Pop. Niger 2050 = 57 millions!!
“If the drummer's rhythm changes, the dance must also change" ~ Hausa Proverb
Thank you