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

Introductory Training on the Use of GeoNode for the Management of Geospatial Information in Resilience Planning

The intergovernmental Authority on Development (IGAD) with support from the German technical Cooperation (GIZ) has conducted an Introductory Training on the Use of GeoNode for the Management of Geospatial Information in Resilience Planning.

Kenya’s National Drought Management Authority trains on the improved Di Monitoring tool
The 5th IDDRSI Platform General Assembly meeting on 11th May 2018 at the Laico Lake Victoria Hotel, Entebbe, Uganda
IGAD DROUGHT RESILIENCE PLATFORM STEERING COMMITTEE & GENERAL ASSEMBLY MEETINGS
Knowledge management team undertakes learning mission to CILSS
The Role of Groundwater in Drought Resilience in the IGAD Region
Climate Change and Food Security Analysis workshop Concluded in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.

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. 

   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.