Kenya close to ending drought crises
Droughts regularly decimate herds across Africa, forcing destitute families to abandon their nomadic lifestyle and settle in remote, dusty towns where they fall deeper into
Author: DiMSUR
Retrofitting: A housing policy that saves lives
The Country Club of Pétionville was a shelter site where around 20,000 people were assembled after the 2010 Earthquake in Haiti. Photo c European Union – Photo
First drought-resilient, high iron beans for Uganda released
Via PreventionWeb. Original from: Thomson Reuters Foundation, Georgia Smith Five new bean varieties bred with high iron and resilience to the impacts of drought have
DiMSUR presents CityRAP Tool in Germany
City RAP Tool was discussed in a panel at Resilient Cities 2016 forum DiMSUR’s urban resilience tool, the CityRAP, was presented during Resilient Cities 2016
CityRAP Tool in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
Foto: Addis Ababa’s landscape/ Credit: @neiljs/ Flickr DiMSUR is in Ethiopia enabling local people to develop their own resilience and risk management plan Addis Ababa
Innovative water storage helps Kenyans thrive in drought
Innovative water storage helps Kenyans thrive in drought By Isaiah Esipisu Even after the heavy rains that drenched East Africa in April, Makueni County in
Mozambique’s Beira bets on urban renewal
INTERVIEW-Threatened by climate change, Mozambique’s Beira bets on urban renewal By Astrid Zweynert BONN, Germany, July 8 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – Daviz Simango is one
How To Build Resilience In Sub-Saharan Africa
by David Lammers, MSc Environmental Studies and Sustainability Studies, Lund University While the challenges of increasing urbanization are often most prominently visible in the world’s megacities,
Responding to Madagascar’s ‘silent’ emergency
By Dina Esposito, Acting Deputy Assistant Administrator for Democracy, Conflict, and Humanitarian Assistance Because of its slow onset, Southern Africa’s drought may not be headline