Tigray Region
The Impacts of EORE provided in the Tigray Region
ERW (Explosive remnants of war) remain a threat, posing a lasting hazard to civilians across the Tigray region, even after hostilities cease. Children, in particular, have a heightened vulnerability to unexploded ordnance due to low-risk awareness and high inquisitiveness. Due to this reason, parents always live in fear.
EORE (Explosive Ordinance Risk Education) has had far-reaching implications in communities like the ones in the Tigray region that are proximate to explosive remnants of war (ERW). The education has changed three major spheres.
- Physical Security Sphere (lifesaving, humanitarian mine action which prevents or precludes people losing their lives or being maimed by explosive remnants of war). It has also an indirect impact on economic and spheres.
- Economic Sphere (freeing up of land holds transformative power to increase economic opportunities for people.
- Social Sphere (access to education and health, as well as social cohesion).
Current Activities
- Currently, there are numerous causalities in the Tigray region due to explosives ordnance. Thus, with the support from the government of Japan and HI, Explosive Ordinance Risk Education (EORE) is being provided for the community by EPSS.
- To ensure the aforementioned changes in sphere, the EORE is being given in the region through a project. The project is being specifically implemented in Shire and central zones of the region. Thus, the education is being provided for communities in disaster risk zone that comprise adults, youth, children, IDPs, returnees and others.
- The EORE is being given by training and deploying trainers in two teams. Accordingly, about 4000 individuals are being taught, including internally displaced persons, returnees and local communities. Here, the education is being made accessible via training of trainers (TOT).
