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Displaying 50 of about 50 results1 September 2021 – The United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction, Regional Office for Arab States launched the “Arab States Drought Risk Dialogue” in a webinar titled “Managing Drought Risk in a Changing Climate” which unpacked the latest findings on drought risk management from the Arab States Region as featured in the Globa…
Following the success of the last regional platform, i.e. Africa-Arab Regional Platform on Disaster Risk Reduction organized in Tunis in October 2018, and building on the outcomes of the 6th session of the Global Platform for Disaster Risk Reduction in 2019, the 5th Arab Regional Platform for DRR will be hosted by the Government of the Kingdom of Morocc…
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Droughts are defined as natural phenomena caused by a deficiency in water resources (e.g. precipitation, groundwater etc.), which represents a certain anomalous situation with respect to the long-term average over a certain period of time and specific area.
The Mediterranean basin is characterized by water scarcity, recurrent droughts a…
On 30 June 2021, ARISE Africa met to address how best to strengthen efforts to promote climate resilient infrastructure investments on the continent. This followed the calls to action raised during the 2021Virtual ARISE African Action Festival[1] in a session organized by the Private Financing Advisory Network (PFAN) Southern Africa entitled “Private Se…
Situation Room officers from the African Union Commission (AUC), IGAD Climate Prediction & Applications Centre (ICPAC), and the African Centre of Meteorological Application for Development (ACMAD) took part in a two-week training in May 2021, focusing on the myDEWETRA[1] platform, which is an open-sources web-platform of the Italian Department of Ci…