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The DRIVE project was launched to facilitate prompt payouts to pastoralists before the severity of droughts escalates. This allows them to sustain their core breeding stock and encourages greater sales as there is less benefit to hold larger herds.

This report outlines ways that policymakers in Somalia can increase access to climate finance and better integrate adaptation, mitigation and disaster risk management in socioeconomic development.

Somalia’s prolonged humanitarian crisis is marked by recurrent climate shocks like droughts and floods. WFP implements Integrated risk management tools like anticipatory action to mitigate the impact of these shocks.

A small increase in average monthly temperatures led to a 10-fold jump in the number of refugees.

This seismic risk profile of Somalia, produced by the Global Earthquake Model (GEM) Foundation summarizes key metrics of seismic risk, allowing stakeholders in risk management to get an overview of the risk in the country.

With the looming threat of El Niño expected to affect 1.2 million people in Somalia in 2023, the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) has developed a comprehensive, preparedness, anticipatory action and response plan.

This document gives an overview of proposed preparedness actions to take in view of an approaching El Niño climate event in Somalia.

As the impacts of climate change are increasingly felt across Africa, countries in the region are nevertheless leading on climate action and making the most of the climate solutions the continent has to offer.