The goal of this project, implemented by Action Aid, is to reduce people’s vulnerability to natural disasters by contributing to the implementation of the Hyogo framework. The purpose is to make schools in high-risk disaster areas safer, enabling them to act as a locus for disaster risk reduction. The project works in 7 countries in selected districts at high-risk of diverse natural disasters.

This Red Cross project consists of training communities in flood prevention and protection. Annual flooding in this region destroys livelihoods and increases the occurrence of vector-borne diseases.  Communities have learned to drain existing waterways and enlarge riverbeds to prevent flooding, and to dig trenches and dykes (which are strengthened by planting fast-growing trees) around their homes and land to protect themselves when floods occur. Link to Source

The focus of this project, a collaborative effort of several organizations, is on climate-sensitive epidemic malaria. It aims to create a model of climate-sensitive malaria in Kakamega and Kericho, including the identification of hotspots and unstable areas prone to epidemics, assessment of existing capacity among stakeholders, and the malaria implications of downscaled climate-change scenarios, and to identify possible adaptation strategies that reduce vulnerability to climate-sensitive malaria.

This government project aims to: (1) improve national and regional coordination for climate risk management, by facilitating cooperation between environmental and disaster-relief arms of the national government; (2) enhance institutional capacity for provision and operationalization of scientific information related to climate risk by evaluating information sources and gaps relating to climate change impacts in vulnerable arid areas and by creating a network of extension agents charged with ‘translating’ climate information and conducting household surveys to identify vulnerabilities; (3) inte

The Ilkerin Loita Integral Development Programme (ILIDP) is a community organization that has successfully incorporated drought cycle management in all its operations.  Started in 1972, ILIDP is owned and run by the Loita Maasai pastoralists of the Narok District, Kenya.  It consists of one main centre and six Pastoralists Community Development Associations.  ILIDP supports and facilitates initiatives by these community organizations, each of which serves between 2,000 and 4,000 people.  In 2000-01, the community associations and their disaster committees carried out all drought-relief and

The demand of small-scale farmers in Kenya for cheap and readily available irrigation technology has led artisans to develop ways to imitate imported sprinklers with improvised materials.  Artisans were able to produce an astonishing variety of sprinklers using different materials and technologies and for different purposes.