Ethio-Japan Partnership Seminar Proceeding - CRDA Ethiopia

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Support capacity building of the government.Promote sustainable development using local knowledge.Be more accountable to the community.Create awareness on gender, the marginalised and disabled among the community.Integrate the issue of gender, the marginalised and disabled in its own intervention.Ensure a rights based approach to development2-2. Peace Consolidation and DemocratisationLack of awareness, natural resource depletion, population pressure, regional and localboundary disputes, unstable political, social and economic conditions, poor governance,corruption, bureaucracy are considered as causes of conflict. So, the mere presence ofgood governance is taken as the best solution to maintain peace and prevent conflict.The important values of traditional and local oriented methods of conflict resolution arealso thought to be valuable potential resources in conflict resolution.In this regard, Ethiopian civil society has acknowledged the need to work together withthe government and community to maintain peace and democracy. To realize peaceconsolidation and the MDGs, there is a real need to network, mobilize joint resources, toshare information, and to cooperate and collaborate.The recommendations to Japanese Government are as follows: Recognise that MDGs are an issue of the grassroots people. Assist capacity development of the government and civil society through financialand technical support, infrastructure development and the provision of humanresources. Work in line with the interest of the community. Grant should not make people slavebut to serve for the solidarity of humans and partners. Continue existing good experiences, best practices and trends, such as donors' pregrant approval visits, on-going monitoring, willing to work in remote/inaccessibleareas and trying to reach the unreachable, one time grant release. All grants, loans and other foreign aid should be directly related to the attainment ofthe MDGs. Assist the democratically elected governments to reduce bureaucracy and corruption.3. Environment Degradation and Climate ChangesEthiopia is one of the nations, which face severe challenges of environmentaldegradation, climate change, poverty, food insecurity and multifaceted socio economicproblems. The existing economic and environmental drawbacks have hampered thecountry’s efforts to achieve the MDGs as scheduled.During the seminar it was recognized that environmental degradation is the mostoutstanding problem of Ethiopia that affects the socio economic performance in thecountry and also by contributing to global climatic problems. The problem is also moreserious at the grassroots level and thus it is wise to tackle this problem with clearplanning at the community level. The Ethiopian civil society has expressed theireagerness to work hard to reverse the situation of land degradation and climate change.They have also requested Japanese civil society and ODA to back their efforts withfinancial and technical assistance so as to alleviate local problems on the one hand andto address the global challenge of climate change on the other.Environmental degradation and climate change are exacerbated in Ethiopia mainly by alack of capacity and adequate awareness at community and decision making levels;37
apid population growth and dependence on natural resources for survival; conflictinginterest between economic development and environmental conservation; weakintegrated watershed management practices and unwise resource exploitation with lackof adequate partnership among stakeholders who work at different levels; focusing onimmediate problem-solving activities such as increasing food production at the expenseof the ecosystem.To reverse the current land degradation and climate change Ethiopian civil society can: Focus on creating and strengthening community based organizations, Conduct research on the impact of investment on environment, Create livelihood opportunities to reduce dependence on natural resources, Introduce environmentally friendly technologies, Provide family planning services adequately, Involve in advocacy and lobbying Prepare local management plans at watershed level for environmental anddevelopment activities.Recommendations to Japanese Government are as follows: Provide technical and financial assistance for integrated watershed management thataddresses environmental and community problems simultaneously, Strengthen institutional capacity at grassroots level for both community based andgovernment institutions, Popularize problems of environment and their solutions at international level, Assist the Ethiopian Government to ratify/implement national environmentalregulations and international conventions, Promote further inter -agency collaboration (e.g. JICA) and to work closely with theEthiopian civil society38
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