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The Capacity for Disaster Reduction Initiative (CADRI) is a UN-led inter-agency partnership that helps countries address disaster and climate risks.

Countries across Africa have already taken major strides to ramp up their plans to better adapt to climate change and have invested in adaptation.

The African Risk Capacity Group and the Government of the Kingdom of Lesotho sign a Memorandum of Understanding to scale up national DRM and financing efforts.

The IFRC in southern Africa has introduced an innovative way of anticipating humanitarian crises to enable early action and reduce their impact on communities.

Supporting countries to be better financially prepared to respond to shocks like COVID-19 is a new expanding area of work for the WB in the Southern Africa region.

Drought, rising temperatures, and an increase in extreme weather, are pushing people to migrate, and triggering new conflicts.

This diagnostic study is prepared at the request of the Ministry of Finance (MoF), Government of Lesotho (GoL)and aims to identify options to strengthen the country's financial resilience to disasters. It includes a review of disaster response costs and

Thanks to the ACP's assistance, Lesotho and other African countries have been able to strengthen their climate resilience through systemic analyses, early warning systems, and using other measures. These efforts are just part of existing and emerging collaborations with other countries and organizations.