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This document presents the FAO's EMPRES (Desert Locust) programme, which began as a pilot activity in the Central Region in 1995 and 1996. Its goals and concept are to reduce the risk of desert locust plagues emanating from the Central Region of the

The present Guidelines aim to help make disaster risk reduction and assessment a routine part of development planning and resource allocation. This means instilling the culture of applying disaster risk assessment as an analytical and decision-making

Disasters put development at risk and development choices can likewise generate new disaster risks, The increasing interest of ECOWAS member states in disaster risk reduction has mainly been driven by efforts to fulfill its peace and security mandate

The purpose of this bilingual publication (French and English), conceived within the framework of the partnership between the Relay for Participatory Urban Development – Third World Environment and Development (ENDA RUP), a nongovernmental organization

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Le Programme d’Action Sous Régional (PASR) Afrique de l’Ouest a été conçu comme un cadre de référence à partir duquel tous les acteurs impliqués dans la gestion des ressources partagées et/ou transfrontalières devraient concevoir leurs

Water problems are most acute in Africa where it is estimated that 300 million people are affected by water shortages. UNESCO and the Italian Ministry for the Environment and Territory (IMET) have thus identified integrated water management in Africa as a

Pursuant to the various decisions of CoP/CCD, relating to the institutional procedures and mechanisms to facilitate the examination of the implementation of the Convention, OSS has drafted this report on the measures it has taken to support the

In the last few years, several regions in Europe have been affected by drought. Droughts are estimated to become worse and more frequent in the light of global climate change. Therefore, essential shifts in policy are required to be prepared for drought