Non-Resident Scholar
Guled Ahmed has more than 15 years’ experience in hydropower, water resources management, and highways infrastructure projects in developing and developed countries. His water resources experience includes drainage and storm water management design, green and sustainable infrastructure planning, H&H modeling of floodplains, bridges and culverts, and GIS-based watershed assessments and planning. Guled has also been incredibly involved as an advocate on Horn of Africa (HoA) water transboundary treaties, cross-border energy and water security, climate change, and Paris Agreement reforms. As an entrepreneur he has founded two renewable energy companies, Power OffGrid and Jiko Biogas, in Somalia. He has developed disruptive, innovative, and affordable smart hybrid renewable energy and asset financing systems, increasing access to electricity, adequate clean water, and clean cooking, improving productivity in sectors in rural and urban areas in Somal
Haydarov, Anand, Merdekios, Abrar); University of Nigeria (
Obianuju Igweonu); World Health Organization (WHO) Kenya (
Jemimah); WHO Regional Office for Africa - AFRO) (
Okeibunor); WHO Horn of Africa Coordination Office - HOA (
Sam Okiror) .designed to meet local communication needs with local solutions. Between 2013 and 2014, the Horn of Africa (HoA) countries experienced a severe wild poliovirus (WPV) outbreak that was attributed to weak social mobilisation, poor outreach to pastoralists, and lack of systematic use of data for planning. In response, the HoA polio response team set up the Polio Communication Network (PCN). This paper documents the establishment and contributions of the PCN in the outbreak countries of Somalia, Kenya, and Ethiopia from 2013 to 2015.
The
Horn of Africa faces multiple persisting and/or recurrent challenges such as environmental degradation, climate change, conflicts, political instability, fast population growth, rapid urbanisation and natural calamities leading to vulnerable livelihoods, widespread poverty, food insecurity, and famines. In general, most of the rural population relies heavily on livestock to sustain their livelihoods.
The geographic focus of
SDC’s HoA regional programme is Somalia and the culturally and socio-economically interlinked marginalised (semi-)arid lowlands in south and South-Eastern Ethiopia and North-Eastern Kenya. SDC has provided significant humanitarian assistance and development cooperation support in the region since 2013, following a conflict-sensitive approach. SDC aims at continuing to use a regional approach to address shared challenges and seize promising opportunities in the areas of intervention across the three countries.
Continuous support required for Communities Impacted by the Ongoing Desert Locusts Crisis in the Greater Horn of Africa - Joint statement by the Regional Desert Locust Alliance (RDLA)
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Nairobi, 10 March 2021
Following the extensive breeding that took place at the end of 2020, desert locusts remain present across the greater Horn of Africa (HoA). Additionally, recent rains in parts of Kenya and Ethiopia provide an opportunity for the current swarms to mature and lay eggs, which would lead to another generation of breeding. The Food and Agriculture Organisation of the United Nations (FAO) reports that the current situation differs from this time last year, in that current swarms are smaller, and less numerous1 . The impact on affected communities however remains high. In addition to multiple waves of desert locusts, communities also faced multiple crises in 2020, including insecurity, cyclones, floods and dry spells, as well as the social and economic consequences of the Covid
Non-Resident Scholar
Guled Ahmed has more than 15 years’ experience in hydropower, water resources management, and highways infrastructure projects in developing and developed countries. His water resources experience includes drainage and storm water management design, green and sustainable infrastructure planning, H&H modeling of floodplains, bridges and culverts, and GIS-based watershed assessments and planning. Guled has also been incredibly involved as an advocate on Horn of Africa (HoA) water transboundary treaties, cross-border energy and water security, climate change, and Paris Agreement reforms. As an entrepreneur he has founded two renewable energy companies, Power OffGrid and Jiko Biogas, in Somalia. He has developed disruptive, innovative, and affordable smart hybrid renewable energy and asset financing systems, increasing access to electricity, adequate clean water, and clean cooking, improving productivity in sectors in rural and urban areas in Somal