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

In 2018, as part of the “Building Disaster Resilience to Natural Hazards in Sub-Saharan African Regions, Countries and Communities” programme, UNDRR, with the help of CIMA Research Foundation, VU Amsterdam, and Wageningen University and Research developed

Rwanda investigated how they could scale up COVID-19 testing significantly. Instead of testing every person, they turned to pooled testing.

The GEOGLAM Crop Monitor for Early Warning (CM4EW) is an international and transparent multi-source, consensus assessment of the crop growing conditions, status, and agro-climatic conditions that are likely to impact global production. The CM4EW reports

This report synthesises trends in DRR investments across the 16 countries and identifies general policy recommendations. Its aim is to improve understanding of public budgeting for DRR .

This report analyses public investment planning for disaster risk reduction (DRR) in Rwanda and estimates the level of public investment in DRR in the country. It does this through a risk-sensitive budget review, which uses the Organisation for Economic

FAO and the government of Rwanda have launched a project to support the farmers affected by the floods and enhance agricultural production capacities of farmers.

The city of Kigali has started demolishing its settlements because of their position on high risk areas.