The IGAD Drought Disaster Resilience and Sustainability Initiative (IDDRSI) recently commemorated its Tenth Anniversary, reflecting on a decade of dedicated efforts toward building resilience in drought-prone regions. The Resilience Focus Magazine (RFM), a vital...
November 25, 2023 (ENTEBBE, Uganda): The 16th IDDRSI Platform Steering Committee meeting, a significant milestone in the journey towards disaster resilience in the region, was inaugurated on November 22 by H.E. Hon. Esther Anyakun, Minister of State for Disaster...
Nairobi, Kenya – 14 June 2023 – The Member States of the Intergovernmental Authority on Development (IGAD) continued to grapple with a severe food crisis in 2022, with over 55 million people facing acute hunger and requiring urgent food, nutrition, and livelihood...
The first Regional Steering Committee Meeting of the program to Build Resilience for Food and Nutrition Security in the Horn of Africa (BREFONS) was organized in Djibouti on 29-30 May 2023. The meeting reviewed the progress of implementing the project activities,...
The Global Report on Food Crises (GRFC) 2023 estimates that over a quarter of a billion people were acutely food-insecure and required urgent food assistance in 58 food-crisis countries in 2022. This is the highest number in the seven-year history of the GRFC. The...
