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This paper provides a framework, key principles, and a repertoire of options for adapting social safety net projects to unprecedented levels of insecurity. It fills an operational knowledge gap regarding project design, implementation, and supervision

A technical team worked with local partners to strengthen flood forecasting in the Oti River through the development of a forecasting model and early warning system, as well as knowledge exchange with Japanese experts.

Stretching across six sub-Saharan

Early warning systems, contingency planning and local action can strengthen West Africa’s responses to increasingly frequent severe flooding.

Parliamentarians from Burkina Faso, Cape Verde, Gambia, Côte d'Ivoire, Mali, Togo, Kenya and Senegal, met at the Consultative Meeting for West African Parliamentarians on Disaster Risk Reduction: An Instrument for Achieving Millennium Development Goals by

Le premier projet d'assainissement des quartiers périphériques de Ouagadougou, a contribué fortement à faire baisser le nombre de personnes affectées par les inondations.

By the end of this century, typical daily temperatures in West Africa set to be even higher than those registered on the hottest days at present, study indicates.

In the past few months many parts of the Volta Basin have been hit by heavy rainfall. Ghana, Burkina Faso, Côte d'Ivoire and Benin have all been impacted.

Phase II of the “Building Capacities for Resilient Recovery” aims to better prepare governments to manage future recovery processes in an effective, sustainable and inclusive way.