SWC Engineer
CDSDRIII
Our approach: 80% of Ethiopia's population lives in rural areas, of which more than 18,000,000 are (agro-) pastoralists in the lowlands, which account for nearly 60% of Ethiopia's land area. The lowlands include the Afar region in northeastern Ethiopia, as well as Somali and parts of Oromia and the Southern Nations, Nationalities, and Peoples' (SNNP) Region. Due to population growth and the increasingly frequent occurrence of extreme weather events, this system is increasingly put at risk and the people and their livestock have become increasingly vulnerable. Extensive resource use like overgrazing and deforestation causes food insecurity, soil degradation, and erosion. Dry valleys are the result, through which rainwater is quickly directed out of the area without being able to infiltrate into the soil, which intensifies desertification and food insecurity. To address this issue the Dry Valley Rehabilitation and Productive Use (DVRPU) approach was developed. The DVRPU approach is systemic with a series of technical, biological, economic, social, institutional, and managerial measures applied to rehabilitate entire dry valleys for the benefit of the inhabitants and their animals, considering the existing political-administrative and traditional management system.
Contract duration: until 30.06.2025
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