Forum on Drought Risk & Development Policy in Africa 31 January – 02 February 2005, Nairobi, Kenya
The UNDP Drylands Development Centre and Bureau for Crisis Prevention and Recovery, together with the UN-International Strategy for Disaster Reduction, organized the Forum on Drought Risk & Development Policy in Africa that brought together a multi-disciplinary group (including experts working on drought, food security and crisis issues; practitioners; development agencies; and donor partners).
In the short term the Forum aimed to:
a) Identify factors which impede a shift from a reactive to a more proactive approach
b) Identify policies which have the greatest impact on the vulnerability or resilience of drylands livelihood systems
c) Formulate a strategy to shift donors and governments towards a proactive approach
d) Institutionalize funding for to make the Forum an expanded and annual event with specialist sub-groups and to bring in outside experts
e) Institutionalize networking in this area in Africa with related initiatives such as the Regional Drought Centre proposed by the UNESCO International Hydrological Programme
f) Identify elements of a program on mainstreaming drought risk management by making strategic use of the Country Office system and co-ordinate with relevant activities outside UNDP in Africa in order to create a critical mass
g) Help conceptually orient a major UNDP coordinated program on drought-related complex food security in Africa
In the long term to:
a) Address cross-border and multi-disciplinary issues such as drought-triggered food crises by taking advantage of UNDP's new Regional Service Centres as nodes for Sub-Regional Programmes of capacity development in association with Sub-Regional Organizations and national members
b) Strengthen the capacity of UNDP Country Offices to support national counterparts in both conceptualizing a framework for and implementing the practice of drought risk management and mainstreaming. This would leverage the field presence, access to government and role as coordinator of the UN system of the UNDP Country Offices in order to multiply the effects of this initiative.
Below are the relevant workshop documents:
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