Conflict Risk Reduction and Youth – 2020 The resilience project 200460 (Integrated soil and natural resource management to mitigate drought and enhance crop and livestock production) is being implemented in Ethiopia, by Cordaid Ethiopia, with MiN funding. The project runs from March 2019 until August 2020 (18 months). Its objective is to enhance agricultural production and reduce drought risks in Argobba Woreda (District) of Amhara region. The project has been implementing watershed-based soil and water conservation; improve access to water for crop production and improved crop varieties; improve access to pasture and fodder for livestock; and introduce renewable energy in selected communities by using an action research approach in collaboration with the University of Addis Ababa. Argobba woreda is among the poorest woredas of Amhara region, bordering Afar region. Argobba was part of the Woreda Risk Profiling Project of GFDDR (World Bank Global Facility for Disaster Risk Reduction). The area is chronically food insecure with degraded farmland and grazing lands. The local economy is based on staple crops and livestock. The main income source is agricultural production (crops and livestock). However, the local economy is constrained by poor production, drought and conflict. There are local conflicts in the area due to access to rangeland, farmland and water, which are aggravated by climate change. Thus, there is a need to analyze and address conflict risks in the project area. Conflict and related displacement diminish people’s capacity to cope with natural disaster risks, whilst government capacity to adequately address people’s needs is weak. We therefore enhance and link the capacities of local communities, governments and other actors to conduct conflict risk analysis and plan conflict risk reduction measures. Cordaid Ethiopia has piloted a Triple Nexus approach by responding to the needs of the communities in Dheka-Suftu Woreda (as part of the RESET II project), which transcend humanitarian-development-peacebuilding silos. This Argobba Area add-on project component also benefits from lessons learned from this pilot Triple Nexus approach. Cordaid Ethiopia, with support from the Global Office Resilience Team proposes to have an add-on component to project 200460. The goal of this add-on component is to empower communities and local actors to identify risks, analyze and plan to advance and sustain their own initiatives for peace and security. This will be achieved through improving capacity among local and woreda level stakeholders to undertake or participate in community or organizational processes that promote conflict transformation, human security, peacebuilding and culture of peace principles, concepts and approaches. Long-term Objective-  The objective of this component is to empower communities and local actors to identify conflict risks, analyze and plan to advance and sustain their own initiatives for peace and security (i.e. conflict risk reduction)

Short-term Objectives-  Enhance capacity of Cordaid Ethiopia staff, local CSO’s and local government staff to use the 
                                           Conflict Risk Analysis tool and the Conflict Risk Reduction process.   
                                         - Enable communities to implement conflict risk reduction measures, linking with resilience 
                                            building interventions.
                                        - Document best practices & lessons learned, for knowledge management & learning, advocacy 
                                            and acquisition. Direct beneficiaries: 3,411 households or 18,784 people (see project 200460).

 Indirect beneficiaries: 11938 households in three woredas