Since 2005, USAID and NASA’s joint SERVIR project has been helping communities across the world better prepare for natural disasters.
- Evaluation
- Annual Report Story
- ReportEthiopia’s enormous pastoral population is estimated at 12 to 15 million people, the majority of whom live in the arid or semi-arid drylands that cover about 60 percent of the country.
- Final ReportDue to its geographical location and to the natural features of its climate, the MENA region figures historically among the most water scarce areas of the world and water management issues have always represented significant challenges.
- ReportIncreasing demand for agricultural crops has put an increased strain on limited freshwater resources in Jordan and Palestine.
- Fact SheetFollowing repeated large-scale humanitarian emergencies in the Sahel Region USAID recognized that continuing to treat these recurrent crises as acute emergencies is extremely costly and does not effectively address their underlying causes.
- OverviewWest Africa’s Sahel is an arid band stretching 1.1 million square miles from Senegal to Chad with limited annual rainfall.
- ActivityResilience in the Sahel Enhanced (RISE) is the Sahel Regional Office-led resilience initiative that aims to address the root causes of persistent vulnerability.
- BlogWhy would a major city choose to reform customer relationship management (CRM) in the face of a water crisis? What good could that possibly do when reservoirs are drying up and citizens are being told to dramatically reduce water use?
- Interagency StoryWith a population of more than 1.5 million people, Udon Thani province in northeastern Thailand is growing and industrializing rapidly as it positions itself as a strategic communications and commercial gateway to Indo-China.