Environmental Education
Minimum Package Programmes
Priming Adaptive Strategies
& Survival Mechanisms for Refugees & Internally Displaced Persons
(Case Study: Children and Women in Hostile
Habitats & Altruistic Host Communities in Dimma, Bonga and Pugnido
Camps in Ethiopia, 1995)
Respublica
Litereria Public Lecture - RL Vol. XIII No 562 MMIXX
Costantinos
Berhutesfa Costantinos, PhD
Former Chairperson of the AU Anti-Corruption
Advisory Board &
Professor of Public Policy & Sustainable
Institutional Reforms
Abstract
A team under the auspices of
the Centre for Human Environment undertook adaptive and rehabilitative environmental
awareness generation in the Sudanese refugee camps of southwestern Ethiopia
beginning 1st Nov 1995. The first part of the fieldwork was to
undertake training needs assessment. For this purpose, a team of professionals
composed of ecologists, sociologists, adaptive technology engineers, economists
and agronomists under the team leadership of the author have conducted the
assessment in Dimma, Bonga and Pugnido refugee camps and surrounding areas. The
purpose was to identify the knowledge gap in the environmental problems of the area
and recommend appropriate capacity building packages. The needs assessment focused
on participatory collection of all possible socioeconomic data available, livelihood
systems, felt needs of the displaced and host populations necessary to design
and organise training of trainers. Collection and analysis of data was undertaken,
necessary information was collected, and felt needs identified.
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Capacity building in adaptive strategies of the populace and environmental
education for training of trainers and curricula were developed to conduct
training and to institutionalise and strengthen environmental clubs in the
schools in Dimma, Bonga and Pugnido refugees and host communities in the villages
near the camps, namely Fundika, Pugnido. Awareness generation is a continuous
work among the people to gain full participation of every individual to protect
and develop the environment, with an organised local agency, whose function is
to sustain the programme and conduct discussions on relevant issues of
environmental degradation, protection and development with assistance from
state and non-state agencies in the area. This has resulted in the
operationalisation of participatory environmental protection and development
activities to enhance the adaptive strategies and survival mechanism of
refugees, IDPs and host communities via on-going environmental protection and
development activities. The last
section presents a framework for priming a citizen (refuges, IDPs, host
communities) driven participatory agenda for Sustainable Livelihoods
Key
words: Refugee, IDP, Environmental Education Minimum Package Programme, EEMPP,
Dimma, Bonga, Pugnido, Fundika, soil, water, forests, agroforestry,
agriculture,
See paper here or https://www.academia.edu/39750853/Priming_Adaptive_Strategies_and_Survival_Mechanisms_for_Refugees_and_IDPs_--_RL_Vol_XIII_No_562_MMIXX
The power of
human empathy and collective action, saves lives. People join in huge numbers
to save people they do not know, and will never meet. The human can learn and
understand, without experiencing it.
They can think themselves into other people’s places. We do not need magic to
change the world, we carry all the power we need inside ourselves already: we
have the power to imagine better.” –
J.K. Rowling, author, philanthropist, and founder children’s charity, Lumos
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