On 22 December 2017, a team from the IGAD Drought Disaster Resilience and Sustainability Initiative (IDDRSI) visited the CILSS Secretariat in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso. The purpose of the mission was to learn from the Permanent Interstate Committee for Drought Control in the Sahel (CILSS) experience on tools for documenting and sharing good practices on resilience; exchange perspectives and experiences on knowledge management at the regional level, and discuss the framework for setting up a task force composed of designated focal points from CILSS and IGAD.
IGAD Drought Disaster Resilience Sustainability Initiative (IDDRSI)
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IGAD DROUGHT RESILIENCE PLATFORM STEERING COMMITTEE & GENERAL ASSEMBLY MEETINGS
Entebbe, Uganda, 9 – 11 May 2018
The next meeting of the IDDRSI Platform meetings is planned to be held in Entebbe, Uganda, on 9 – 11 May 2018. The Steering committee will be held on 10 May 2018 and will be preceded by the meeting of the IDDRSI Forum on 9 May 2018. This will be followed by the meeting of the IDDRSI Platform General Assembly on 11 May 2018.
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.
The Role of Groundwater in Drought Resilience in the IGAD Region
26-07-2017, Addis Ababa (Ethiopia): The Intergovernmental Authority on Development (IGAD) in partnership with the World Bank this morning opened a two-day workshop aimed at considering The role of Groundwater in Drought Resilience in the IGAD Region under the chairmanship of the Director of Boundary and Transboundary Rivers Affairs Directorate of Ethiopia, Mr. Teshome Atnafi, the Programme Manager of Natural Resources and Renewable Energy, Mr Daher Elmi, and Senior Water Resources Management Specialist-World Bank Washington, Mr. Marcus Wijnen.
Regional Sharefair on Gender and Resilience
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.