Good Practice Examples from the ECHO Drought Cycle Management Partners and Beyond
RESPONDING TO DROUGHT Using food aid to stimulate local markets 2 Measuring household resilience and adaptive capacity 6 A community DRR plan promotes resilience 8 Reciprocal grazing agreements 10 An innovative community based early warning system 12 The importance of gender in drought and DRR 16 BUILDING RESILIENT LIVELIHOODS Surveying pastoralist dropouts 20 Value-added livestock marketing 22 Group Saving and Loans in Mandera 26 Beach Management Units 28 Connecting with change 29 The Forgotten Billion 33 POLICY SOLUTIONS The Nairobi Strategy to eradicate drought emergencies 34 Linking Relief and Development 36 Uganda’s Rangeland Management Policy 37 Uganda Pastoralist Week 2011 38 Kenya’s National Drought Management Authority 40 Ethiopia’s Disaster Risk Management - Agriculture Task Force 42 Scaling up access to pastoralist education 44 The priorities for drylands recovery and development 46
