IGAD Drought Disaster Resilience Sustainability Initiative (IDDRSI)
Doing things differently
The sustainable development goals (SDGs) aim to address the root causes of poverty, and underline the universal need for an inclusive and resilient development. Investing in gender equality and women’s empowerment in policies and programmes are pre-requisites for effective delivery of the SDGs.
The Platform Coordination Unit (PCU) of the IGAD Drought Disaster Resilience and Sustainability Initiative (IDDRSI) organized a three-day hands-on training on and Investment tracking tool dubbed the 3W Map for the Office of Prime Minister (OPM) of Uganda on October 11th, 12th and 13th in Kampala.
Call for articles for the 4th ‘Resilience Focus Magazine’
The next edition of the Resilience Focus Magazine will focus on addressing the causes of migration and extremism and gender issues.
Background
For centuries, long before political boundaries were established, pastoralists inhabiting the arid and semi-arid lands (ASALs) of the Horn of Africa (HOA) region were able to mitigate drought and other uncertainties including marginalization in access to natural resources with mobility and trade as their core coping mechanisms.
The partners of the IGAD Drought Disaster Resilience and Sustainability Initiative (IDDRSI), including Member States, IGAD, Development Partners, UN agencies, non-state actors (NSAs) and members of the private sector actors, committed to ending drought emergencies in the Horn of Africa, held the 3rd IDDRSI Platform General Assembly meeting on 27th March 2015 at the Hilton Hotel, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.