(Adnkronos) - “Le comunità stesse che vengono addestrate ad avere degli strumenti per rispondere alle emergenze, senza aver sempre bisogno dell'intervento di attori esterni come CESVI ed altre organizzazioni non governative internazionali”. Lo ha detto Marcello Malavasi, head of mission per CESVI in Etiopia, ai microfoni dell’Adnkronos a proposito della 19esima edizione del Ghi, l’Indice globale della fame curato ogni anno da CESVI, l’organizzazione umanitaria italiana.
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00:00We are activating several projects in the southern region of Ethiopia,
00:09in particular in Borena and in the Somali region of Ethiopia.
00:13These are actually three integrated projects in one program.
00:17The program is based on integrated resilience in emergencies.
00:21So the first project was about an immediate response,
00:27responding to the needs and needs of the population to survive.
00:33So distribution of money, distribution of hygienic kits,
00:39and this was to stop the very first emergency.
00:44The second project was about strengthening the early warning systems,
00:52so working with local authorities to set up early warning and protection mechanisms,
01:01trying to allow communities to respond to emergencies
01:07without always needing the intervention of external actors
01:12such as CESVI and other non-governmental international organizations.
01:18Finally, there is a third phase of the project, which is to provide long-term resilience.
01:25So with the intervention of the water network restoration,
01:29CESVI is carrying out irrigation projects to allow agricultural practices
01:36even when there are drought seasons.
01:41Finally, in the long-term resilience project,
01:46we are also setting up security systems.
01:49That is to say, during drought periods,
01:54the greatest damage to communities is obviously the death of the livestock.
02:00And with the death of the livestock, there is the economic disaster for these communities.
02:05So thanks to these security mechanisms,
02:10in collaboration with IRRI, which is an agency of the United Nations,
02:14we are trying to set up mechanisms that can mitigate the worst economic damage during droughts.
02:21Gender justice is absolutely at the center of our interventions.
02:26In the local committees, perhaps the only request from CESVI is a female representation.
02:35So when there are our activities of money distribution, for example,
02:41when there are activities of strengthening security mechanisms,
02:46at the center of these operations there is always a female representation,
02:51trying to never go below 60%.
02:55There is a great deal of attention to trying to work with communities, with local committees,
03:01giving space to gender representation in a way that is not disconcerting,
03:06that does not produce violence in these communities,
03:11where the presence of gender injustice is very strong.
03:19They are pastoral communities where the male has an atavistic role of power.
03:31So for CESVI it is very important to produce a change without disturbing these communities.