Dire Dawa Administrative Council Integrated Resource
Dire Dawa Administrative Council Integrated Resource
Dire Dawa Administrative Council Integrated Resource
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Water Works Design and Supervision Enterprise<br />
importance given the size of potential land that can be irrigated using dams and diversion.<br />
In this case, run-off water will not be a constraint to develop irrigation at least for the<br />
time span of the planning horizon. The study, therefore, has come out with a finding that<br />
there will be a need for storage using different technologies.<br />
The potential of mineral resources is also believed to have significant impact on future<br />
development opportunities of the <strong>Council</strong>. If planned interventions are also to be<br />
materialized, the livestock resources and tourism, according to the study, are also very<br />
important areas that the people and the <strong>Administrative</strong> <strong>Council</strong> could rely on to improve<br />
the social and economic life of the people of the <strong>Council</strong>.<br />
With an improved land use policy and agricultural development strategy for the <strong>Council</strong>,<br />
the <strong>Administrative</strong> <strong>Council</strong> can effectively plan to make a transformation in agricultural<br />
productivity and production, which will have a strong positive impact on its<br />
industrialization, especially agro-industrial activities.<br />
The strategic location of <strong>Dire</strong> <strong>Dawa</strong> <strong>Administrative</strong> <strong>Council</strong>, which is naturally<br />
positioned close to the port of Djibouti in particular and the outside world in general,<br />
especially to the Middle East makes the study area a focus of various economic, social<br />
and political considerations.<br />
In terms of the general status of the natural resources of the <strong>Council</strong>, such as land, water,<br />
forestry and others, it is very important to note that it is at the verge of a serious problem.<br />
Environmental degradation, ecological imbalance resulting from deforestation and<br />
backward cultivation systems and un-optimum utilization of available resource in general<br />
has forced the study area to become in a serious situation, in terms of land productivity,<br />
rainfall availability and deterioration of existing infrastructures due to flooding and<br />
erosion phenomenon.<br />
Coupled with the ever-increased deterioration of the situation of the natural resources in<br />
the <strong>Council</strong> due to unplanned, and uncoordinated utilization of the same, the problem of<br />
the study area is further aggravated by the fast increase in the size of population. The fast<br />
population growth, which is further complicated by a large umber of people of both sexes<br />
migrating in to the city of <strong>Dire</strong> <strong>Dawa</strong>, because of its strategic location and illegal trading<br />
activities in the past, have increasingly complicated the economic and social status of the<br />
study area.<br />
The social, cultural, economic and environmental issues have been quite significantly<br />
addressed during this phase of the study, which have eventually enabled each study group<br />
to rationally think and re-think how to go about the short-term, medium-term and longterm<br />
interventions. This is believed to improve the existing situation, which is alarmingly<br />
of a very low profile in terms of availability of social and physical infrastructures that can<br />
improve the ever-expanding problems and finally bring about socio-economic<br />
transformation for the <strong>Council</strong>.<br />
Phase II- Data Collection - Site Investigation Survey & Analysis – DDAC - Main Report<br />
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