By Ndanki Kahiurika
The five-day conference themed “Enhancing Resilience To Drought Events On The African Continent” was attended by over 400 delegates, including local and international experts.
As part of the Windhoek Declaration, which includes the Strategic Framework to combat drought in Africa that was adopted last Thursday, the conference opted to seek other ways of funding drought emergencies.
For the first three days of the conference, technical experts deliberated on the strategic framework for drought mitigation and enhancing resilience (the white paper), while the last two days comprised a high-level meeting, where the framework was adopted.
One of the suggestions in the white paper was to set up the Drought Resilient and Prepared Africa (Drapa) fund, but it was shot down at the conference.