The Resilience Focus magazine aims at providing a  platform for sharing views and experiences between and among planners, facilitators, practitioners and beneficiaries of the IGAD Drought Resilience and Sustainability Initiative (IDDRSI).

The Resilience Focus intends to highlight contemporary resilience issues to re-enforce the attributes of the IDDRSI Platform as a functioning family campfire. It will portray the challenges, identifying opportunities and defining the way forward in the implementation of the Drought Resilience Initiative.

In This Issue:

1. Alignment, Coordination and Partnerships

2. Resilience Programming

3. Investing Differently

Latest News

UNDP RSCA Director hands over equipment to support IGAD Cluster Coordination offices

Mr. Lamin Momodou Manneh, the UNDP RSCA Director, handed over computers to the IGAD Cluster Coordinators that will be based in the three cross-border offices that have been established through the Support for Effective Cooperation and Coordination of Cross-border Initiatives in Southwest Ethiopia-Northwest Kenya, Marsabit-Borana & Dawa, and Kenya-Somalia-Ethiopia (SECCCI) EU co-funded Project.

First Field office bordering Ethiopia and Kenya to improve the regional cross-border cooperation
EU – UN – IGAD Cross Border Project to accelerate 2019 cooperation between Ethiopia, Kenya and Somalia borders
The 9th IDDRSI Steering Committee meeting on 17th and 18th December 2018 at the Sheraton Hotel, Djibouti Ville, Djibouti
Technical meeting to facilitate cross-border dialogue meeting for IGAD Cluster 4
Press Release
New initiative to boost smallholders’ climate resilience in the Horn of Africa

Feature Resilience Magazines and Reports

Promoting Effective Resilience Investments

This booklet is a compilation of documentation on good practices on resilience at regional level, further to the implementation of the six pillars of IGAD Drought Disaster Resilience and Sustainability Initiative (IDDRSI) in Djibouti, Ethiopia, Kenya, Somalia, South Sudan, Sudan and Uganda.

Resilience Focus 5

The theme of Issue 05-2019 of the Resilience Focus Magazine  seeks to increase the understanding of cross-border cooperation as one of the foundations for the successful enhancement of resilience, including improved livelihoods and increased food security for communities in the IGAD region.

Resilience Focus 4

The Resilience Focus Magazine covers thematic issues that are at the core of the response mounted by IGAD Member States and Development partners to support the implementation of IDDRSI. This edition, which comes at the end of the first five years of the Initiative, addresses all the seven pillars. 

IGAD knowledge share fair Report 2018

Around sixty participants from the IGAD Secretariat and Member States were in Isiolo, Kenya from 6-8 August 2018 to take part in an inaugural IGAD knowledge share fair, whose theme was “Strengthening Cross-border Cooperation in the IGAD Clusters.” 

IDDRSI Achievement to-date

Since its inception in 2012/2013, considerable progress has been made on various fronts in the implementation of IDDRSI throughout the IGAD region, with a number of achievements having been recorded, including the following:

IDDRSI Mid Term Review

This independent Mid Term Review of the implementation of the first Phase (2013-2017) of the IDDRSI Strategy, is part of the commitment of IGAD Member States and Partners to generate solid evidence for the progress of the IGAD Drought Disaster Resilience and Sustainability Initiative Strategy (2013 – 2027)

Resilience Focus 3

This third edition of the Resilience Focus magazine has been produced in collaboration with the Drylands  Learning and Capacity Building Initiative (DLCI), an independent regional resource and facilitation organisation based in Kenya. 

Resilience Focus 2

The Resilience Focus magazine aims at providing a  platform for sharing views and experiences between and among planners, facilitators, practitioners and beneficiaries of the IGAD Drought Resilience and Sustainability Initiative (IDDRSI).

   Facts

  • The IGAD region covers an area of 5.2 million km2
  • IGAD region has a population of more than 240 million people
  • The region is endowed with a considerable range of natural resources, with a huge potential for a variety wealth creation and progress.
  • About 70% of the IGAD region comprises arid and semi-arid lands (ASALs) that receive less than 600mm in annual rainfall and are characterized by recurrent drought.
  • Over the years, severity and frequency of droughts have been increasing and desertification, land degradation, global warming and related climate change phenomena exacerbated it
  • The IGAD region has a strategic place in the Horn of Africa.
  • IGAD is focused for regional economic cooperation and integration.

Priority Intervention Areas (PIAs)

Resources and KM tools

Spatial Portal

 The IGAD Spatial portal is intended to provide spatial services to a larger audience with no or little GIS experience.

Result Based M&E

A new web-based project monitoring solution intended to facilitate the tracking of the IDDRSI development plans at regional, national and sub-national level.

3W Mapping

The 3W map is one of the key components of the unified KM system and serves as a project portfolio management tool.