IGAD Drought Disaster Resilience Sustainability Initiative (IDDRSI)
Doing things differently
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.
The articles in the magazine have been selected to highlight some of the ways in which the seven priority intervention areas (PIAs) of the IDDRSI strategy are being addressed in the IGAD region.
(16 - 17 January 2019, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia). The European Union and UNDP have organized a joint action working plan to boost the cooperation between Ethiopia, Kenya and Somalia borders for 2019 period.
The 2 day workshop is organized by the Support for Effective Cooperation and Coordination of Cross-border Initiatives in Southwest Ethiopia-Northwest Kenya, Marsabit-Borana and Dawa, and Kenya-Somalia-Ethiopia (SECCCI) EU co-funded Project.
The IGAD Spatial portal is intended to provide spatial services to a larger audience with no or little GIS experience.
A new web-based project monitoring solution intended to facilitate the tracking of the IDDRSI development plans at regional, national and sub-national level.
The 3W map is one of the key components of the unified KM system and serves as a project portfolio management tool.
Facts
The Resilience Focus Magazine covers thematic issues that are at the core of the response mounted by IGAD Member States and Development partners to support the implementation of IDDRSI. This edition, which comes at the end of the first five years of the Initiative, addresses all the seven pillars
Around sixty participants from the IGAD Secretariat and Member States were in Isiolo, Kenya from 6-8 August 2018 to take part in an inaugural IGAD knowledge share fair, whose theme was “Strengthening Cross-border Cooperation in the IGAD Clusters.”
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:
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)
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.
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).
