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OSS was founded in 1992 to improve early warning and monitoring systems for agriculture, food security and drought in Africa — a continent where an estimated 46% of the land is vulnerable to desertification and where development policies tend to focus on crisis management rather than pre-emption and early warning.
Ever since, its main objective has been to give impetus to the combat against desertification and the mitigation of drought by providing member countries and organisations with a forum where they can share experiences and harmonise the ways in which data is collected and processed to feed into decision - support tools.
The Sendai Framework Voluntary Commitments (SFVC) online platform allows stakeholders to inform the public about their work on DRR. The SFVC online platform is a useful toolto know who is doing what and where for the implementation of the Sendai Framework, which could foster potential collaboration among stakeholders. All stakeholders (private sector, civil society organizations, academia, media, local governments, etc.) working on DRR can submit their commitments and report on their progress and deliverables.