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 esilience 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

Climate Change and Food Security Analysis workshop Concluded in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.

GAD, ICPAC and WFP Regional Bureau for East and Central Africa concluded a workshop starting from August 4 to 8 t 2014 by discussing methods and tools for incorporating climate change into food security and livelihoods analysis. The workshop has also looked at how the analysis can inform climate change adaptation programmers. In addition, stakeholders’ information needs has been discussed.

Regional Sharefair on Gender and Resilience
PCU Trains on an Investment Tracking Tool
Workshop on Cross-Border Cooperation in the Implementation of IDDRSI
Call for articles for the 4th ‘Resilience Focus Magazine’
The 3rd IDDRSI Platform General Assembly meeting concluded on March 27th 2015, at Hilto Hotel, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.

   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.
  • The ultimate goal of IGAD is the welfare of its population in the form of human security and to maintain peace and security for sustainable development

Priority Intervention Areas (PIAs)

Feature Resilience Magazines and Reports

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).

Resilience Context Analysis

This report was produced by the Resilience Analysis Unit (RAU) and prepared by the RAU technical team composed of: Cinzia Papavero (WFP), Eugenie Reidy (UNICEF), Saif Abdelrhman (IGAD), Francis Opiyo (UNDP), Kassim Farah (IGAD), Tesfaye Beshah (FAO), RAU Technical Coordinator.

Resilience Magazines and other Reports