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This booklet presents the success stories from the Drought Resilience and Sustainable Livelihoods Program (DRSLP-II).
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This Climate Risk Profile provides an overview of climate risks to food security and resilience in Somalia, including an overview of current and projected climate change impacts to agriculture, livestock, fisheries, water resources, and human health.
In a significant shift from reactive to proactive disaster management, the humanitarian landscape is witnessing the adoption of anticipatory action.
Action Against Disasters Somalia (AADSOM)
Young girls carrying water in Somalia
The recent rains that hit Somalia in October and November 2023 have impacted Somalia heavily, causing flooding. These torrential rains destroyed roads, bridges, farmland, and basic infrastructures. Particularly in water infrastructures.
Flood Resilience Portal
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This study unveils diverse disaster risk trends and patterns, revealing variations in hazards, vulnerability, and coping capacity across African countries by utilizing the INFORM risk model data spanning from 2012 to 2022
CRM
This publication uses a systemic risk impact pathway (SRIP) model to gain data-driven insights on the drivers of systemic risk and the impacts on food insecurity in Somalia.
Early warning
WMO and its partners are stepping up efforts to make sure that nobody is left behind in the international drive towards Early Warnings For All.
World Meteorological Organization (WMO)
United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction
The DRIVE project was launched to facilitate prompt payouts to pastoralists before the severity of droughts escalates. This allows them to sustain their core breeding stock and encourages greater sales as there is less benefit to hold larger herds.
World Bank, the

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