The involvement of local government in the Drought Early Warning Surveillance process and its sustainability

Author(s)
Ombosho, E.
Publication language
English
Date published
11 Mar 2014
Type
Presentations
Keywords
Accountability and Participation, Participation, Disaster preparedness, resilience and risk reduction, Early warning, Disasters, Drought, National & regional actors, Government
Organisations
Oxfam

The presentation highlights the local authority’s involvement in the DEWS project and its benefits from a government’s perspective with emphasis on how the system that was built at community level can feed into the regional and national system. The presentation also includes the government’s plan on enhancing the Early Warning Surveillance at a local level.