The climate change rural-resiliency project launched in the Tigray
region of northern Ethiopia by Oxfam America and its local and
international partners has entered year two of its pilot. Known as
HARITA—Horn of Africa Risk Transfer for Adaptation—the project aims to
address the needs of smallholder farmers facing climate change shocks by
offering a robust risk management package that integrates disaster risk
reduction, affordable risk transfer, and prudent risk-taking.
In its second year, HARITA is being offered in five villages spread
across the region, as part of an effort to gather a significant pool of
data on climatic variation in Tigray in preparation for a region-wide
scale-up. The project—which offers insurance-for-work for activities
intended to reduce farmers’ vulnerability to droughts—operates in
conjunction with the Ethiopian government’s existing social safety net
program to make insurance more affordable for the rural smallholders it
serves. This report highlights the results of the second year of its
pilot as of September 2010.
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