Strengthening Emergency Response Abilities (SERA) Project
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SERA is a collaboration in Ethiopia
between the Disaster Prevention and Preparedness Commission, the United States Agency for International Development
(USAID), and the regional state governments of Tigray, Amhara
, Oromia and the Southern Nations, Nationalities and Peoples Region (SNNPR)SERA.
Since 1998, SERA has helped stakeholders understand better the underlying causes of disaster vulnerability. SERA does not implement mitigation activities. However SERA does contribute to a better understanding of a community’s risk profile, and offers concrete proposals about how these risks can be reduced. SERA staff have prepared vulnerability profiles of selected woredas in each region. These diagnostic studies have helped woreda-level decision-makers, regional officials and federal analysts define actions that can contribute to the reduction of risks in these villages.
SERA has evolved into the "Emergency Preparedness Strengthening Program" (EPSP) which will help support the development of a national baseline to assist DPPC in its Early Warning activities.
Ethiopia
Ethiopia , officially known as the Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia, is a country located in the Horn of Africa. It is the second-most populous nation in Africa, with over 82 million inhabitants, and the tenth-largest by area, occupying 1,100,000 km2...
between the Disaster Prevention and Preparedness Commission, the United States Agency for International Development
United States Agency for International Development
The United States Agency for International Development is the United States federal government agency primarily responsible for administering civilian foreign aid. President John F. Kennedy created USAID in 1961 by executive order to implement development assistance programs in the areas...
(USAID), and the regional state governments of Tigray, Amhara
Amhara people
Amhara are a highland people inhabiting the Northwestern highlands of Ethiopia. Numbering about 19.8 million people, they comprise 26% of the country's population, according to the 2007 national census...
, Oromia and the Southern Nations, Nationalities and Peoples Region (SNNPR)SERA.
Since 1998, SERA has helped stakeholders understand better the underlying causes of disaster vulnerability. SERA does not implement mitigation activities. However SERA does contribute to a better understanding of a community’s risk profile, and offers concrete proposals about how these risks can be reduced. SERA staff have prepared vulnerability profiles of selected woredas in each region. These diagnostic studies have helped woreda-level decision-makers, regional officials and federal analysts define actions that can contribute to the reduction of risks in these villages.
SERA has evolved into the "Emergency Preparedness Strengthening Program" (EPSP) which will help support the development of a national baseline to assist DPPC in its Early Warning activities.