Centre of Excellence on Climate Resilience, National Institute of Disaster Management in collaboration with IUCN-CEM, South Asia organized a side event on the theme “Reducing drought Risk to improve land-water Resilience: mainstreaming ecoDRR Pathways and Tools”. The session was aimed to discuss about the increasing severity of drought across regions and key hotspots of drought led land degradation, review the existing drought risk reduction strategies and identify resilience tools for ecoDRR based solution in developmental planning. The conference also focussed on development of a road-map for achieving SDGs, Paris Climate Agreement, SFDRR, enhancing climate resilience and enhancing farmers ease of living, with lessons towards enabling a “global drought mitigation initiative”. The session was participated by more than 80 senior officials from government organizations including CRIDA, IARI,IMD, NDMA, NIDM, CSIR-NEERI, DAC&FW, MNCFC; UN agencies including IUCN & IUCN-CEM; International organizations including GIZ, WHO-India, GGGI; NGOs/iNGOs implementers, and from various research and academic institutions including Delhi University, WII, GB Pant University, BITS-Goa, TERI-SAS, IGNOU, RGIEPT, professional and business organizations, etc. The session critically deliberated on the prevailing status of land degradation and drought spread in different parts of India and also across South Asia. UNCCD’s principal goal of reducing land degradation by developing and proposing efficient tools and promoting mainstreaming of land-water resilience interventions into developmental planning at different levels with the aim of controlling or reversing land degradation was also discussed in the session. Various success stories of reducing drought incidents and their extent were shared by different speakers and discussants. The program was followed by an open question and answer session.
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