Mongolia improves disaster resilience for herders
The Asian Development Bank and the Government of Mongolia signed a $3 million grant to pilot community-based approaches to disaster risk management.
Mongolia improves disaster resilience for herders. The Asian Development Bank (ADB) and the Government of Mongolia signed a $3 million grant to pilot community-based approaches to disaster risk management in parts of three urban provinces to increase herders’ resilience to dzud winter disasters, fires, and other disasters. The grant is funded by the Japanese government-financed Japan Fund for Poverty Reduction (JFPR), which over the past 16 years has supported projects in Mongolia dealing with poverty alleviation, community development, livelihoods, and the environment. The Strengthening Community Resilience to Dzud and Forest and Steppe Fires Project is the first in Mongolia to introduce a bottom-up institutionalized approach for involving rural communities in disaster risk management – an undertaking that will help strengthen the capacity of herders and local disaster risk management administrations to manage risks of dzud and forest and steppe fires in some of the more vulnerable and poor areas of Mongolia. An extreme climate and nomadic herding lifestyle means Mongolia faces high risk of loss of livelihood and damage to the ecosystem and environment from disasters. Dzuds and forest and steppe fires are among the most damaging natural hazards in Mongolia. According to the UN, over 41% of Mongolia’s herder population was affected and 1.1 million livestock perished in the 2015-2016 dzud.
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