Community-based Drought Early Warning Surveillance (DEWS) to assist local capacity building

Publication language
English
Date published
11 Mar 2014
Type
Conference, training & meeting documents
Keywords
Accountability and Participation, Participation, Capacity development, Local capacity, Comms, media & information, Disaster preparedness, resilience and risk reduction, Early warning, Disasters, Drought
Organisations
ALNAP

This is a playlist of a session in ALNAP's 29th Annual Meeting. It includes the following presentations followed by a Q&A:

  • Oxfam America’s Community based Drought Early Warning Surveillance approach
    Presenter: Jennifer Chan, Director of Global Emergency Medicine, Northwestern Memorial Hospital
  • Experience of the Drought Early Warning Surveillance from
    communities’ perspective
    Presenter: Kashu Dida Haphite and Garo Wako Halake (Community Members)
  • The involvement of local government in the Drought Early Warning Surveillance process and its sustainability
    Presenter: Efrem Ombosho Dagago, Head, Moyale District Disaster Preparedness and Prevention Office