Argaw Ambelu|Zewdie Birhanu|Abraraw Tesfaye|Negalign Berhanu|Christine Muhumuza|Wondwosen Kassahun|Teferi Daba|Kifle Woldemichael
Intervention pathways towards improving the resilience of pastoralists: A study from Borana communities, southern Ethiopia
Jimma University|Jimma University|Jimma University|Jimma University|Makerere University|Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development|Jimma University|Jimma University
building resilient communities towards recurrent droughts increasingly becoming important element development endeavours particularly among communities vulnerable shocks stresses despite decades remarkable efforts made governmental nongovernmental organization resilience capacity pastoralists ethiopia remains poor aim study test statistical relationships among resilience dimensions emerged community consultations identify intervention pathways effective resilience building efforts data collected 1058 randomly sampled households arero dhas districts borana zone southern ethiopia data collected interviewer administered structured questionnaire observational checklist principal component analyses done develop composite scores different resilience dimensions structural equation model sem verified theoretical model sem also revealed resilience towards impact recurrent droughts multidimensional showed statistically significant p 005 relationships consequently household food insecurity manifested ultimate outcome poor resilience infrastructure social services 024 livestock dimension 021 human capital 012 psychosocial distress 01 dimensions significantly p 005 affected status household food insecurity furthermore livestock wealth 016 wealth infrastructure 006 infrastructure human capital 018 livestock psychosocial distress 009 dimensions structural relationships significantly influence environment peace security found major underlying resilience factors significantly associated pastoralists resilience affect resilience dimensions intervention pathway indicated intervention livestock infrastructure dimensions could help improve resilience communities