Country Presentation (Somalia) Presented by Ahmed Mohamed Iman Operational Focal Point and Director General Ministry of Fisheries Marine Resources and Environment Supporting LDCs to advance their National Adaptation Plans Africa Regional Training Workshop (Anglophone) UN Conference Centre, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia 14-17 April 2014
To begin with, I would like to thank Ethiopian Government and its people for their hospitality by hosting this Workshop in Addis Ababa. I also like to thank the facilitators for this NAP Workshop.
Category: country Capital: Mogadishu Government: presidential system republic Population: 12 million Official language: Somali, Arabic, Italian, and English. Somalia is located the north- eastern part of African content ranging 2 south latitude to 12 north latitude and facing the gulf of Aden and the Indian ocean 3,333 coastal line. The country is Bounded on the north by Djibouti, and on the west by Ethiopia and Kenya. Area: 637,664km2 (farm land 82,000 and pasture land 288,000km2
Somali Constitution and Legal Framework Somali Constitution and Legal Framework in which stated that every person has the right to an environment that is not harmful to his/her health and well being, and that every person has the right to have a share of the natural resources of the country.
Legal Framework Continue.. Regarding on the above mentioned, in April 2013, the President of Somalia released a document entitled the National Adaptation Plan with Six Pillar Policy three specific intentions related to the environment, which are as follows: Enact laws that preserve and protect the environment; Incorporate environmental education in the formal and informal education systems in the country; Rectify the environmental damage of the past such as deforestation and cleaning of Somali seas.
Data Collection Before the civil war in Somalia the meteorology date from 1950 1990 were available but since 1991 no the data was collected. The stations which were collecting data are not any more functional like civil aviation and Ministries of Fisheries, Environment and Agriculture.
Table 1 shows natural disasters 1960 to 2011 Type of calamity Year Flood 1961 Droughts 1964 Droughts 1974 Droughts 1987 Flood 1997 Droughts 2000 Flood 2000 Droughts 2001 Droughts 2004 Flood 2006 Droughts 2008 Droughts 2009 Droughts 2010 Droughts 2011
As usually we may follow the technical guidelines for the adaptation plan such as Element C implementation strategies of the NAP process. Our process will be focusing Somalia priorities in the national climate change and adaptation policy after we get institutional capacity building.
NAP Process Cont... Firstly, it is important to make embowering related national institutions and making regulatory framework for addressing every concerned adaptation in the long-term strategies on the NAP process. We will also make definition on the national criteria priority on development needs, preexisting and may come country climate change risks.
NAP Process Cont... The NAP preparation process will be closely followed the guiding principles outlined for the Least Developed Countries (LDC) Expert Group (LEG) established under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC).
NAP Process Cont... Somalia potential adaptation measures and criteria for selection of priority actions will be developed and participants on this matter will include representatives from the following groups: State Actors; Governing Institutions and Authorities; Traditional linkages; Religious Respect Persons; Community Elders; Pastoralists and Agro-pastoralists; Educators; Youth; Women; NGOs; Private Sectors in generally and Other Related important Bodies.
Recommendations 1. Develop and support national capacity for national adaptation risk management enhance the ability to understand the systems to include the impacts of climate change and NAP process. 2. Need the strategy assistance for the possible complementation process at different levels of the community within Somalia should ensure the full acknowledgement of government and partner agencies; NGOs and the local communities. 3. Understanding the communities long-term adaptation of the linkage between indigenous knowledge and modern of the climate change and its adaptation and easy to get project funding to make collection in the areas of data and dissemination of analysed information.
Continue... 4. Somalia need the levels of Risk Disaster management System NAP adaptation and its process supported by international and regional interest organisations and the Ministry of Fisheries and Environment of Somalia and other relevant government ministries and other related stakeholders, and key partners should develop and support national capacity.
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