building resilience to disasters in icpac member countries in africa

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BUILDING RESILIENCE TO BUILDING RESILIENCE TO DISASTERS IN DISASTERS IN ICPAC MEMBER COUNTRIES in Africa IGAD CLIMATE PREDICTION AND APPLICATIONS CENTRE (ICPAC) is a specialized institution of the Intergovernmental Authority on Intergovernmental Authority on Development Development (IGAD (IGAD ) ) WEB: www.icpac.net

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Page 1: Building Resilience to Disasters in ICPAC Member Countries in Africa

BUILDING RESILIENCE TO BUILDING RESILIENCE TO DISASTERS INDISASTERS IN ICPAC MEMBER COUNTRIES in Africa

IGAD CLIMATE PREDICTION AND APPLICATIONS

CENTRE (ICPAC) is a specialized institution of the Intergovernmental Intergovernmental Authority on DevelopmentAuthority on Development

(IGAD(IGAD))

WEB: www.icpac.net

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• Most locations of the Greater Horn of Africa (GHA) may be classified as Arid and semi-arid with very high degree of climate variability and recurrences of droughts and floods

• Livelihoods are tied to climate sensitive natural resources leading to heavy losses when climate extremes occur; forced migrations; lack of water, foods and energy; conflicts over limited water grazing land, shared natural resources, etc.

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KNOWLEDGE ON DISASTER RISKS

LAND SLIDES

FLOOD RISK

LIVESTOCK

CROPS

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ICPAC is collaborating with the IGAD Centre on Conflict Early Warning and Response (CEWARN) in the integration of climate information in conflict resolution

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c: 25-40 yrsc: 40-60 yrs

Group climate risk discussion c: 40-60 yrs

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2 - UPLINK 2 - UPLINK STATIONSTATION

3 - AfriStar™ 3 - AfriStar™ SATELLITESATELLITE

4 - DIGITAL RADIO 4 - DIGITAL RADIO SET WorldSpaceSET WorldSpace

SATELLITE COMMUNICATION SATELLITE COMMUNICATION SCHEMESCHEME

SATELLITE COMMUNICATION SATELLITE COMMUNICATION SCHEMESCHEME

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Climate

Env-Info

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Drought Severity Index for

Dekad 13

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Capacity buildingCapacity building :Transferring malaria epidemic predictive model to end users in Eastern Africa