Human and Institutional Capacity building: Water scarcity is a significant cause of conflict in Somalia’s nomadic pastoralist societies. In recent history, the Horn of Africa has experienced recurrent drought due to global climate change and related environmental shocks, which contribute to poverty, displacement, biodiversity loss and conflict. Somalia’s primary water resources are the rivers of Jubba and Shabelle. Both originate in Ethiopia and flow into Somalia. In 2017, the Drought Impact and Needs Assessment (DINA) commissioned by the Somalia Ministry of Planning in partnership with the European Union, the United Nations, and World Bank, found that food insecurity and scarcity of drinking water, coupled with displacement, contribute to rural conflict, child malnutrition and water-borne disease. Also, Building human and institutional capacities for sustainable water supply. Building technical capacities for data collection and analysis, monitoring and evaluation, safe water provision, and hygiene promotion. Training community leaders, elders, teachers and local authorities on community mobilization to raise awareness on safe water handling, hand washing, and waste management through household visits, campaigns, and community forums are very vital.
Name: Eng. Omar Shurie Email: omarshurie@gmail.com
The Ministry of Energy and Water Resources was established in 2014 with overall responsibility of two sectors namely: Water Resources and Energy exploration, development and distribution on an equitable basis to the Somali society. The Ministry of Energy and Water Resources is responsible for the formulation, direction and coordination of the national energy and water resources. Furthermore, the ministry involves policy-making, setting standard operation, national planning, regulation, monitoring, and technical support of regional states in relation to energy and water resources in order to promote social and economic development of the country. In service delivery, the Ministry is supported by three autonomous organizations namely:
Organizational unit/ Department: Department of Water Resources, MoEWR Duration of assignment (max 3 months): From 1st June 2020 Till 31st August 2020
The Overall Objective of this assignment is to equip trainees with tools and concepts to enable designing cost-effective water and nutrient management strategies for improved and sustainable water use and food production within the safe operational boundaries. This will be achieved in the following three steps: (step 1) hand-on training on the tools and concepts will be carried out, (step 2) group discussions will be facilitated to co-identify water and nutrient management challenges from field to water system levels in Ethiopian; (step 3) the identified challenges will be sharpened into research/project topics so that detailed follow-up activities will be planned. The expected follow up activities include CD4D participant along with staff from PiT will supervise MSc and/or PhD students on the identified research topics by applying the learnt tools and concepts, ii-joint project proposal will be developed by PiT and myself and applied for a call.
MSc/PHD in irrigation engineering and water management, agronomy.
Able to write, read and communicate in Somali and English