Description
In the Horn of Africa, CARE has programmes in Sudan, Uganda, Kenya, Ethiopia, Eritrea and Somalia, Somaliland and Puntland. Some of the activities specifically related to environmental security are:
- in Sudan:
natural resource management as a tool for conflict mitigation; agricultural
support to returnees and vulnerable households (North and South Kordofan); disaster mitigation through water management and increasing food production (Darfur);
- in Uganda:
empowering civil society for participatory forest management (in various areas close to protected areas; assisting IDPs on water and sanitation, livelihood support and peace building (Northern Uganda);
- in Ethiopia:
emergency food aid, crop and vegetable seed distribution and livelihood support (Borana, East and West Haraghe).
- in Eritrea:
providing water for livestock and drought and war-affected pastoralists through the construction of micro-dams, and reducing firewood consumption through improved household stoves and planting trees;
- in Somalia:
water and sanitation assistance to IDPs (Somaliland
and Puntland), support to pastoralist livelihoods and adaptation to drought (Mandera Triangle, Somalia-Kenya-Ethiopia);
- in Kenya:
improving access to clean water for pastoralists and their animals.