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ACTION AGAINST HUNGER and the IGAD Climate Prediction and Applications Centre (ICPAC) Launch Landmark ECHO-Funded Initiative to Build Anticipatory Action Systems Across the Horn of Africa
Nairobi, Kenya, 9 July 2026: Action Against Hunger (ACF) and the IGAD Climate Prediction and Applications Centre (ICPAC) today launched “Institutionalising Interoperable Multi-Hazard Anticipatory Action” (IMPAACT), a two-year initiative co-funded by the European Commission’s Directorate-General for European Civil Protection and Humanitarian Aid Operations (ECHO). The project aims to protect 243,801 people in Ethiopia, Somalia, and Djibouti from the compounding effects of climate-induced and conflict-driven humanitarian crises through coordinated, science-based anticipatory action.
The Greater Horn of Africa remains one of the world’s most disaster-prone regions, where recurrent drought, floods, conflict, and displacement intersect to generate predictable humanitarian crises. Despite the …
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IGAD’s Climate Center officially opened
27 October 2021, Nairobi: The IGAD Climate Prediction and Applications Centre (ICPAC) was officially opened by Kenyan President H.E. Uhuru Kenyatta in Ngong', near the Kenyan capital Nairobi on Wednesday. ICPAC is a designated regional …
Kenyan President Kenyatta to officially launch IGAD's Climate Center
Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta will on Wednesday officially launch the IGAD Climate Prediction and Applications Centre (ICPAC) in Ngong, out of the capital Nairobi, Kenya.
ICPAC is a regional climate center designated by the World …
Winners of the Climate Action Awards East Africa by categories
ICPAC’s Action Awards East Africa for this year came to a close on September 8, 2021 with the winners of each categories announced.
The competition, which recognized people and institutions with disruptive innovations and ideas …
Co-production in Climate Services: What, Why, and How?
What does co-production mean? Just by looking at the word, one can probably tell that it has something to do with producing something as well as cooperating. But how does it work? …
Meet the Winners of the Climate Action Awards East Africa
ICPAC is pleased to announce the winners for the 2021 Climate Action Awards East Africa—a competition that shines a spotlight on people/organizations with groundbreaking innovations and ideas to mitigate the effects of climate change.
The …
Food Insecurity Persists In The IGAD Region
21 September 2021, Nairobi, Kenya: An estimated 31.4 million people across the IGAD region were classified in crisis or worse (IPC Phase 3+) levels of acute food insecurity in 2020. This figure represents 20% of …