IGAD Regional Disaster Risk Management Strategy

IGAD Regional Disaster Risk Management Strategy

Disaster
Policy
2019
Year of publication
2019
Specific thematic area
Disaster preparedness, management and/or response
Sector of governance
Disaster
Type of human mobility
Displacement, Migration
Characteristics of human mobility
Rural-urban
Type of environmental driver
Drought
Local governance marker
Not Available
Sudden-onset/slow-onset
Slow-onset
Type of provision related to human mobility in disaster and climate change contexts
DIRECT GENERAL - Displacement as a consequence of disasters. DIRECT SPECIFIC - Target to reduce disaster displacement.
Regional instruments Member countries
Djibouti, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Kenya, Somalia, South Sudan, Sudan, Uganda
Sub-region
Eastern Africa
Region
Eastern Africa
Macro-region
Africa
Author/issuing body
Intergovernmental Authority on Development (IGAD)
Relevant GCM objective
    GCM Objective 2 - Minimize adverse drivers
Child marker
Not Available
Gender marker
Not Available
Human rights marker
Not Available

“from 2015 up to 2017, it was estimated by UNOCHA that 15 million people in the Horn of Africa were severely food insecure. Additionally, drought, fuelled by the changing climate, often triggered disease outbreaks, massive displacements of populations, livestock mobility and mortality as well as conflict over resources”.

“substantially reducing the number of disaster affected people in IGAD by 2030, aiming to lower the average regional figure per 100,000 in the decade 2020–2030 compared to the period 2005–2015”.

*References to Kosovo shall be understood to be in the context of United Nations Security Council resolution 1244 (1999).