DRESO aims to enhance food security, nutritional status and improvement of self-reliance by improving household food self-sufficiency and income; increase supplies at market level through the rehabilitation and development of production systems. This program also seeks to enhance self-reliance in food security and nurturing of key communal resources and services. It addresses poverty and vulnerability through early recovery, rehabilitation and development programs so that the target groups become more resilient and less vulnerable. It also creates a choice of alternative livelihoods for enhanced access to adequate and sustainable income and resources to meet their basic needs in short term and coping with shocks in the longer-term. In order to improve emergency preparedness and response mechanisms, DRESO undertakes the following interventions:

• Rehabilitate farmers’ irrigation schemes, including support to suitable management and operation systems
• Support to pastoral/agro-pastoral production systems, including semi-urban and urban livestock production
• Intervene in restocking emergency operations
• Collaborate with other agencies involved in Food Security, Nutrition and Health Program programs
• Increase entrepreneurial ventures
• Increase levels of computer literacy levels