Our work
ICPAC works to reduce the loss of lives and livelihoods by providing timely early warnings and preparedness for disasters. We aim at creating capacity to mitigate impacts and manage risks, and ensure that when people are affected by disasters they can continue to meet their minimum needs for food, water, shelter, health, and security.
Capacity Building
Disasters preparedness, hazard assessment, Post Disaster Needs Assessment
Monitoring and Early Warnings
We monitor the risks of disasters like drought or floods and warn national authorities
Investments for resilience
Investments for disaster risk reduction
Coordination
We support coordination of stakeholders working in disaster risk management
Risk analysis
We conduct risk assessments and mapping of disasters in the region
Support to recovery
The Programme supports recovery efforts at national level
Projects
We host a number of projects and programmes that support our work in Disaster Risk Management.
Events
Our Latest Press Releases
Living Climate Change Africa
London, Nairobi, 16 November 2022
BBC Media Action, the BBC’s international charity, has launched Living Climate Change Africa, a five-part podcast series featuring the voices of herders, farmers, fishers, and weather experts from across East Africa as they experience the impacts of climate change in their region.
The series examines how communities in Kenya, Somalia, Ethiopia, Uganda, and South Sudan are being affected by changing weather patterns.
The podcast is produced in collaboration with the Intergovernmental Authority on Development (IGAD)’s Climate Prediction and Applications Centre (ICPAC) and launched today in an event at COP27.
Lynn Morris, Kenya and Somalia Country …
Latest Updates
Living Climate Change Africa
London, Nairobi, 16 November 2022
BBC Media Action, the BBC’s international charity, has launched Li…
The Greater Horn of Africa is bracing for a 5th consecutive failed rainy season
25th August 2022, Mombasa, Kenya: IGAD’S Climate Prediction and Applications Centre
(ICPAC) today an…
Global imperative for early warning, early action system
Extreme events borne of the climate crisis have risen at an alarmingly pace in recent times. Drough…
Summary for Decision Makers, October to December 2022
Download our latest Summary for Decision Makers with impacts and advisories for the following secto…
Early Warnings for Early Action
ICPAC supports member countries to take Early Action to mitigate the impacts of Disasters such as floods, drought, cyclones, heavy rainfall or desert locust.
Mapping Disasters Impacts in the region
ICPAC supports member states to conduct post disasters Assessments. Before and after images of Floods which displaced up to 32.000 people in Afar in Ethiopia due to the overflow of Awash River.
