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Drought risk management: practitioner's perspectives from Africa and Asia

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United Nations Development Programme Drylands Development Centre
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This report is one of the main outputs from UNDP DDC's activities of the Africa-Asia Drought Risk Management Peer Assistance Network (AADP), funded by the Government of Japan, in 2011. It reviews the current drought risk management (DRM) institutional and programmatic landscape in Africa and Asia and mapped out some of the main DRM capacity gaps and gap-filling opportunities, such as the value of indigenous knowledge, the economic impacts of drought and related political decision-making, risk assessment, early warning systems and awareness raising. It highlights important similarities in DRM issues across Africa and Asia and identifies priority areas to which the inter-regional south-south cooperation could add value.

This study is based upon the consultations with key individuals in both continents, an online survey of some 400 people working in drought related fields and the First Africa-Asia Drought Adaptation Forum held in Bangkok, Thailand, in June 2011.

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Hazards Drought
Themes Early warning Advocacy and media Risk identification and assessment Governance Economics of DRR Disaster risk management Traditional and Indigenous knowledges
Country and region Afghanistan Andorra
Number of pages
45 p.
Publication year
2012

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