THE CONCEPTS: Mientras que una ola de calor (heat waves) es un calor excesivo, una sequía (drought) es escasez de agua. Una sequía suele comenzar con un déficit de precipitaciones (meteorological drought) durante un período prolongado, lo que provoca una reducción de la humedad del suelo (soil moisture or soil water), así como escasez de agua (water scarcity) en arroyos, canales, ríos, embalses y aguas subterráneas.

Southeast Asia Drought Watch (SEADW)

Droughts in Southeast Asia negatively impact ecosystem services, food and water security, and biodiversity. These impacts are exacerbated by climate change, further highlighting the need for improved governance and decision-making in virtually all sectors. Southeast Asia Drought Watch (SEADW) helps to improve the operational, technological, and institutional capabilities to prepare for and respond to droughts in the Southeast Asia region; to support local decision-makers in drought monitoring, analysis, and forecasting; and to provide policymakers and growers with current and forecast drought indices to facilitate decision-making within the current growing season.

https://servir.adpc.net/tools/southeast-asia-drought-watch-seadw

Asian Disaster Preparedness Center (ADPC) participates at Drought Resilience +10 Conference | 30 September to 03 October 2024, Geneva, Switzerland

Building on the momentum of the first High-Level Meeting on National Drought Policies in 2013, the Drought Resilience +10 Conference focuses on intensifying and expanding drought response efforts globally. This event gathered nations, experts, and practitioners to assess progress in drought management, draw lessons learned, and outline a collective path toward a more drought-resilient world. The conference is organized by the World Meteorological Organization (WMO), the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD), and the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), in collaboration with various UN agencies, international and regional organizations, and key national bodies.

The Asian Disaster Preparedness Center (ADPC) hosted a side event, “Governance in Action: Strategies for Improved Drought Risk Management,” on 30 September 2024. This event was co-organized with the UNCCD, Global Water Partnership (GWP), University of Nebraska Medical Center (UNMC), Sri Lanka's Ministry of Environment, and Bahir Dar University in Ethiopia.

Moreover, ADPC participated in the panel discussion on Drought Risk Finance (Workstream 7) during the conference's Plenary Session on 01 October 2024.

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AHD Pakistan won HIEX Innovation Exchange award and top position from Pakistan and 2nd position at the World Health Assembly -2024, selected to accelerate safe drinking water in rural poor communities
AHD Pakistan will present its innovation in COP-29 in November with Ministry of Environment Pakistan at Pakistan Pavilion on COP-29, now a chance for no of INGOs and Humanitarian organization to scale up the Nature Based Solution ta national and international level in rural poor communities of Pakistan, Asia and Africa and help to meet UN SDG # 06 to get done.

Las conclusiones y recomendaciones del informe final de la Conferencia sobre resiliencia a la sequía +10 están finalmente disponibles. La conferencia brindó un foro mundial para el intercambio de conocimientos, perspectivas y visiones entre la comunidad mundial sobre cómo mejorar la gobernanza y la gestión de la sequía en todos los niveles y aumentar las acciones colectivas hacia su respuesta.
https://www.droughtmanagement.info/hmndp10/about/conference/