Eswatini - Disaster Management and Resilience

About this project

Disaster Management and Resilience This is a preparedness and livelihood project that aims to assist communities to better respond and recover from the impacts of the forecasted El Nino. The livelihood strategies planned for this project include communal gardens where livelihood groups will be identified and gathered through trainings on conservation agriculture and assisted to revive and/or establish their communal gardens used for crop production. With this intervention, the project will aim to increase their agricultural production. Communities through their disaster risk reduction committees will be trained so that they ultimately understand their vulnerabilities and capacities to understand how the intervention offered by BERCS will assist them in the long run This will ensure sustainability of the interventions even beyond the project lifecycle. The most food insecure communities will also be identified and assisted through cash-based transfers to cover their household needs. In enhancing disaster preparedness, the project will take a twist to develop a flood Early Action Protocol to ensure that BERCS has access to automatic funding to act early in anticipation to flood events. El Niño-Induced Drought Preparedness in EswatiniWith technical support from the IFRC and the Red Cross Red Crescent Climate Centre, and financial support from the British Red Cross, BERCS has developed a Drought Early Action Protocol (EAP) under the Forecast-based Financing (FbF) mechanism, defi…

Published by

British Red Cross · International NGO

Countries

Eswatini

Sectors

VIII.3. Disaster Preparedness

Funded by

People’s Postcode Lottery

Implemented by

Baphalali Eswatini (Swaziland) Red Cross Society

Accountable

British Red Cross

Published by British Red Cross to the International Aid Transparency Initiative (IATI), last updated 13 Jul 2026 and imported automatically. IATI identifier: GB-CHC-220949-P9204.

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