Building resilient livelihoods using the Resilience Index Measurement and Analysis (RIMA)
05/04/2018
Despite Uganda’s flourishing economy, food insecurity remains a challenge in many parts of the country, particularly in the northeastern region of Karamoja. As in other fragile contexts, understanding and measuring the resilience of affected populations is crucial in order to [...]
29/03/2018
Over recent decades, the NGOs of the Swiss NGO DRR Platform have been involved in disaster risk reduction activities around the globe, many of which are directly or indirectly related to the use and management of land resources, including soils, [...]
22/03/2018
In 2017, almost 124 million people across 51 countries and territories faced Crisis levels of acute food insecurity or worse (IPC Phase 3 and above or equivalent) and required urgent humanitarian action. In 2016 the population in need of urgent [...]
Support for the widespread production, preservation and consumption of high nutrient value foods to strengthen resilience to food and income insecurity
19/03/2018
Uganda lies almost completely within the Nile Basin with irregular rainfall patterns: monomodal rainfall patterns (one rainy season) and bi-modal rainfall patterns (two rainy seasons). Its vulnerability to climate change, especially poor rainfall and long dry spells in the northern [...]
16/03/2018
The Food Security Cluster (FSC) Preparedness and Resilience Working Group (PRWG) launched a call for good practices on preparedness and resilience-building approaches and activities among its partners.
Recurrent humanitarian crises and disasters, pockets of armed conflict in the Niger Delta and North-East Nigeria [...]