Supporting LDCs to advance their National Adaptation Plans Africa Regional Training Workshop (Anglophone)

UN Conference Centre, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia 14-17 April 2014

Country Presentation (Somalia)

Presented by

Ahmed Mohamed Iman

Operational Focal Point and

Director General

Ministry of Fisheries Marine Resources and Environment

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.

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.

Legal Framework Continue…..

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, pre-

existing and may come country climate change risks.

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.

NAP Process Cont....

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.

Recommendations

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.

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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.

THANKS FOR YOUR

ATTENTION

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