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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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