Strengthening Emergency Response Abilities
SERA Project
SERA is a collaboration between the DPPC, the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), and the regional state governments of Tigray, Amhara, Oromia and Southern Nations, Nationalities and Peoples Region (SNNPR).

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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.

EBINAT WEREDA Disaster oriented integrated
Response Package
A Model Response Package, Prepared by Getahun Tafesse, USAID/Ethiopia, Consultant.
July, 2000, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
(Full version PDF 576KB)

SERA Project Vulnerability Profile

Dera Woreda (district) North Shewa Zone, Oromiya Region, 2000 (Summary version PDF 299 MB) (Full version PDF 1,638 KB)

Fadis Woreda (district) East Harerge Zone Oromiya Region, 2000 (Summary version PDF 212 KB) (Full version PDF 776KB)

Girawa Woreda (district) East Harerge Zone Oromiya Region, 2000 (Summary version PDF 215 KB) (Full version PDF 763 KB)

Wuchalena Jido Woreda (district) North Shewa Zone Oromiya Region, 2000 (Summary version PDF196 KB) (Full version PDF1,109 KB)

Abergele Woreda (district) Central Zone Tigray Region (Summary version PDF 136 KB) (Full version PDF 1,249 KB)

Saesi Tsaedaemba (district) Eastern Zone Tigray Region, 2000 (Summary version PDF 232 KB) (Full version PDF 1,135 KB)

Atsbi Wenberta Woreda (district) Eastern Zone Tigray Region, 2000 (Summary version PDF 166 KB) (Full version PDF 1,282 KB)

Ahferom Woreda (district) Central Zone Tigray Region, 2000 (Summary version PDF 41 KB) (Full version PDF 1,134 KB)