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Drought - Effects and Mitigation

The document summarizes the drought situation, effects, and mitigation measures across several provinces in Zambia. It finds that drought is causing crop failure, lack of water and feed for animals, loss of income, increased social issues like gender-based violence, and malnutrition. To address this, mitigation measures proposed include encouraging vegetable gardening, livestock rearing, accessing relief assistance, diversifying livelihoods, strengthening disaster preparedness, and promoting conservation farming techniques.

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Drought - Effects and Mitigation

The document summarizes the drought situation, effects, and mitigation measures across several provinces in Zambia. It finds that drought is causing crop failure, lack of water and feed for animals, loss of income, increased social issues like gender-based violence, and malnutrition. To address this, mitigation measures proposed include encouraging vegetable gardening, livestock rearing, accessing relief assistance, diversifying livelihoods, strengthening disaster preparedness, and promoting conservation farming techniques.

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Status quo of Drought situation, effects and mitigation measures

Province Status quo Effects on SHG Members Mitigation measures


Central Province - People will be luck to get - Saving will be affected - Insurance
even a bag - Selling of assets - Crop diversification
- No water for animals and - It will affect attendance - Planting different seeds
gardening - Increase in divorce, GBV, - Other income sources
- It has an effect on house prostitution - Promote local crops e.g. millet,
hold - Tree planting
- Preach preservations
- Sensitization on diets diversification
Lusaka - Crop failure due to - Decline in SHG saving - Introduction of new agriculture
prolonged dry spell - Foor insecurity materials
- No water for animals - Non payments of loans - Linkage to information centres on
- Government hand outs will SHG related concepts
impact negatively SHG by - Connecting groups to CDF
enhance dependency - Sensitise them on what causes
syndrome climate change and how to mitigate it
- Advocating for afforestation
Southern - There are no crops that - Hunger is real to SHGs - Encourage gardening for those who
have survived in out - Increase in livestock and have water
catchment areas human diseases - Promoting conservation farming with
- Some rivers have dried - Low income early maturity varieties
up - Psychological trauma - CLA lobbing for relief food
- Grass for livestock - Family disintegration - Promote enterprise diversification
feeding has dried up - High rate of school drops and value additions
- Farmers which are the out - Engage into fruit tree planting
majority of our target, - Early marriages and ten - Promote sustainable organic
had invested a lot in pregnancies agriculture
anticipation of good - GBV increased
market price offered by - Child labour
governments - Collapsing of IGA among
SHG members
- Reduced savings,
attendance and meetings
- High prices of food items
- Sexual abuse or favour
Eastern Province - There is crop failure in - Financial loss: SHG - Engaging with different line
most parts in the members who rarely on ministries to teach SHG members on
province ranging from their yields to make money various farming methods
10% to 75% which will may not generate money - Access other opportunities that can
lead to decrease in crop - Impact of their livelihood: benefit farmers like seed dock and
yields such as soya shortage of food, water other farming inputs that they can
beans, maize, groundnuts grow during winter by taking
advantages of available water bodies.
General Effects of drought to SHG members
- They may be reducing grazing areas for animals
- Saving are affected in other SHG groups
- Business have collapsed due to money crisis for other SHG women
- Reduced household income leading to non-repayment of loans and poor nutrition
- Increased social issues in SHGs
- Food scarcity and poor nutrition
- Social effects will affect the savings at the SHGs and dropouts in the Groups too
- Exploitation of policies to food items
- Malnutrition in more vulnerable house holds
- Food shortage which will lead most SHG members to engage into piece works thus affect SHG meetings will be affected
- Widespread hunger
- Child labour and malnutrition levels will increase to the children
General mitigation measures
- Encourage SHGs to apply for CDF grants and loans with the help of CLAs
- Encouraging women and children to engage in gardening of vegetables
- Encourage SHG women and children to engage in chicken and goat rearing
- Creating awareness campaign on the possible linkages and information sharing on where they can access food
- We should encourage the women and youth to be gardening
- Strengthening linkages with Disaster Management Unit to continuously lobby for mitigation and adaptation resources
- Conduct business assessment opportunities with SHGs and CLAs and help and help them to move viable business
- Diversification in business by taking advantage of the situation
- Emergency social cash transfer as done during COVID 19 by MCDSS
- Distribution of relief food
- Cash grants to groups
- Grow vegetables and selling fritters
- Engage in food based small business
- Visit ministry of COMDSS and ministry of Agriculture over modalities for implementing emergency activities
- Disscuss food management in SHGs
- CLAs to brainstorm relevant business activities adapted to drought and propose thes to SGH members
- Women consider keeping their fields safe from fire

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