Between January and March 2021, CIMA Research Foundation collaborated on the development of a shared methodology for a regional risk profile for floods in the Horn of Africa.
The project, carried out with funding from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Government of Sweden and in collaboration with the United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction (UNDRR), took place within the framework of the Horn of Africa Partnership for Early Warning for Early Action, which aims to establish an Intergovernmental Authority on Development (IGAD) Disaster Operations Centre.
In particular, CIMA Research Foundation supported other stakeholders in defining a shared methodology for compiling a regional risk profile for floods, linked to risk information produced by Early Warning for Early Actions activities. The profile has also been elaborated in order to link it to food security, thanks to the collaboration with the World Food Programme and the IGAD Climate Prediction and Applications Centre (ICPA). It attempts, in fact, to provide a first estimate (in a predictive way) of metrics potentially affecting food security: people affected of displaced by floods, market damaged or destroyed, crops of livestock losses.
In 2022, a second phase of work began. With the project UNDRR-IGAD: Enhancing applications of the IGAD regional flood risk profile (support to the Horn of Africa Partnership for Early Warning for Early Action, Phase II), CIMA Research Foundation has in fact been involved in the validation, with IGAD member states, of the flood risk profiles developed. The project also aims to operationalize the use of risk profiles for impact forecasting with ICPAC and for food security applications with WFP.
