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El Nino Preparedness Guidelines for Cities
An advisory note by UN-Habitat and IGAD providing an anticipatory action framework to help city and…
Mombasa Ministerial Declaration on Anticipatory Action, 2026
Ministers responsible for Disaster Risk Management and Humanitarian Affairs from IGAD Member States…
DESERT LOCUST RISK UNDER A STRENGTHENING EL NIÑO: IMPLICATIONS FOR THE GREATER HORN OF AFRICA
Since 2022, the Greater Horn of Africa transitioned from a regional Desert Locust upsurge to locali…
Q2 2026 Anticipatory Action Newsletter
The Q2 2026 Anticipatory Action Newsletter, produced by ICPAC, captures a quarter in which Anticipa…
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The African Union Commission (AUC) Multi-Hazard Early Warning Systems Framework (2022)
Rising disasters require agile and inter-operational early warning systems. In just four years (2015-2018), Africa recorded more than seven hundred (700) disaster events which affected over eighty (80) million people either directly or indirectly. These …
IGAD Regional Framework for Integrating Disaster Risk Management and Climate Change Adaptation
Majority of the disasters occurring in the Inter-Governmental Authority on Development (IGAD) region are originating from hydro meteorological hazards. They include drought, floods, landslides, windstorms, lightening, extreme temperatures and wildfires among others. Such disasters are …
Regional Strategy and Action Plan for Mainstreaming Gender in Disaster Risk Management and Climate Change Adaptation
Disasters do not affect everyone in the same way – instead this depends on levels of vulnerability, which vary with various socially-constructed facets of identity, such as gender. In a gender-unequal world, women and girls …
Regional Framework for Mainstreaming Disaster Risk Management and Climate Change in School Curriculum
The ever increasing frequency and magnitude of natural and human made disasters have galvanized the international community to take a serious interest in the matter. The Kyoto Protocol was held in 1997 to tackle the …
IGAD Regional Flood Risk Management Strategy (2020 - 2030)
Climate change is projected to increase the frequency and intensity of extreme hydro-meteorological events, thereby increasing the levels of disaster risk of the IGAD Member States’ economies and their most vulnerable populations.
On a regional …
Regional Flood Displacement Risk Profile
The member states of the Intergovernmental Authority on Development (IGAD) are some of the most vulnerable to disasters globally. it is not unusual that the Region experiences sequences of drought periods contrasted by wet periods …
Cyclone Displacement Risk Profile
A number of UN agencies and partners established a Joint Programme funded under the Migration Multi-Partner Trust Fund (MPTF) to improve regional and national migration governance in the context of the adverse impacts of climate …
Global imperative for early warning, early action system
Extreme events borne of the climate crisis have risen at an alarmingly pace in recent times. Drought and heat stress afflict most continents, floods are submerging large parts of South Sudan and Pakistan and, in …
Forage Monitoring and Prediction Model for Early Warning Application over the East of Africa Region
Rangelands dominate the arid and semi-arid lands of the Greater Horn of Africa (GHA) region, where pastoralism is the primary livelihood source.
The seasonal variability of pasture and water resources has an impact on pastoral …