The Platform Coordination Unit of the IGAD Drought Disaster Resilience and Sustainability Initiative (IDDRSI) today received audio-visual production equipment worth USD 15,365.83. The equipment was procured by GIZ with the support of the BMZ and will be used by IGAD...
How do you hold a face-to-face knowledge share fair with cross-border communities during a pandemic? We asked ourselves this question in 2020 when countries worldwide started to lockdown to prevent the further spread of the Covid-19 virus. At the time, our team that...
ICPAC launches Drought Watch System The East Africa Drought Watch (https://droughtwatch.icpac.net/) is the very first public transboundary system that uses near-real-time Earth Observation and Weather Information to monitor drought conditions in a region in Africa....
“We found out that there are high levels of gender inequalities on land, and women tend to be more marginalised,” said Ms. Joselyn Bigirwa, Gender and Land Expert, IGAD Land Governance Programme, as she started her talk, which covered gender gaps and the...
The Intergovernmental Authority on Development (IGAD) region faces an unprecedented triple threat to food security caused by the combined effects of recent severe floods, the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic and an upsurge of desert locusts. Additionally, there is an...