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New parametric insurance products against drought and excessive rainfall launched to improve climate resilience and access to finance of Togolese smallholders farmers.

This climate risk profile is intended to serve as a public good to facilitate upstream country diagnostics, policy dialogue, and strategic planning by providing comprehensive overviews of trends and projected changes in key climate parameters.

A technical team worked with local partners to strengthen flood forecasting in the Oti River through the development of a forecasting model and early warning system, as well as knowledge exchange with Japanese experts.

Stretching across six sub-Saharan

Early warning systems, contingency planning and local action can strengthen West Africa’s responses to increasingly frequent severe flooding.

Parliamentarians from Burkina Faso, Cape Verde, Gambia, Côte d'Ivoire, Mali, Togo, Kenya and Senegal, met at the Consultative Meeting for West African Parliamentarians on Disaster Risk Reduction: An Instrument for Achieving Millennium Development Goals by

CLIMAFRI project evaluates adaption strategies for flood-affected communities in Togo and Benin through effective and sustainable water resource management.

This study estimates in monetary terms the Cost of Environmental Degradation (COED) in the coastal areas of Benin, Côte d’Ivoire, Senegal, and Togo. Specifically, it values the impacts of degradation that occur during one year, as a result of three major

A new project in the Volta Basin strives to provide the first large scale and transboundary implementation of Integrated Flood and Drought Management tactics through the full chain of the End-to-End Early Warning System for Flood and Drought Forecasting. The project will empower authorities of the six participating countries with solutions for DRR and adaptation.