Highlights: The worst desert locust outbreak in 25 years has caused significant pasture losses across East Africa, mainly in agro-pastoral areas of eastern Ethiopia, central Somalia and northern Kenya. As sustained locust reproduction is expected until June 2020, the outbreak has a [...]

One of the 25 selected winning development projects/SDG solutions at the Expo 2020 Dubai Global Best Practice Programme Frequent and persistent droughts are a recurrent feature of the Karamoja Cluster, which encompasses the southwestern parts of Ethiopia, northwestern Kenya, the southeastern [...]

This review explores how climate resilience programmes and projects can be designed, established and managed to be resilient themselves in fragile and conflict-affected contexts. It combines evidence-based learning from over four years of implementation from 15 projects across 13 countries, [...]

Food security analysis conducted in six regions of Ethiopia indicates that, despite ongoing assistance, an estimated 8 million people (27% of the 28.7 million people analysed) were severely food insecure in IPC Phase 3 (Crisis) or worse between July and [...]

When: Thursday 29 October 2019, 10:00 AM – 11:00 AM EDT Moderator: Lynn Michalopoulos, Resilience Monitoring and Evaluation Advisor, USAID Bureau for Food Security Speakers: Jill Scantlan, Regional Resilience Monitoring, Evaluation, Research and Learning (MERL) Advisor, South and East Asia, Mercy Corps Tim Frankenberger, President, TANGO International Click here to register Join [...]