| Overview : Despite the significant and persistent economic progress over the last decade or so, Ethiopia continues to be exposed to several kinds of hazards and disasters, which have got the strength to dilute economic and institutional gains over the same period or beyond. While drought and floods represent major challenges, some other hazards like crop pests and diseases, livestock diseases, landslides, earthquakes, and conflict also affect communities over a wide range of different agro-ecologic and socio-economic zones of the country. The predominantly agrarian and/or pastoral nature of the rural livelihoods of the country puts rural communities at heightened level of vulnerabilities to disasters leading to crisis of livelihoods, if not addressed through appropriate disaster risk management systems. The overall goal of the intended consultancy service is therefore to develop a national DRM plan that serves as a tool to guide the future of DRM programming in the country; and which presents key priorities in the DRM sector along with simple and operational methods, resource management structures, strategic engagements, and programme logic. The plan will clearly translate the DRM SPIF and related policy priorities in to unified action plan crossing from short term operational plan through long term foresight plan along with SMART deliverable. |
