RESULTS & ACHIEVEMENTS
• In 2011, a GFDRR team, in partnership with UNDP, the European Union, and USAID, completed the world’s first post-disaster needs assessment (PDNA) after a drought. The results mobilized $13 million of World Bank emergency funding and an additional $30 million of international funding for drought mitigation measures.
• This funding includes the creation of a $5 million national safety net to ease Djibouti’s financial stresses caused by disasters. The PDNA also catalyzed a $3 million water project to better manage resources in rural areas, along with a $5.2 million power access and energy diversification project.
• The PDNA catalyzed broader partnerships in disaster risk management (DRM), bringing national actors to share information and collaborate. Since then, six national authorities, including the ministries of Finance, Interior, Housing, Higher Education and Research, Transport and Health, have been working together to improve Djibouti’s resilience to natural hazards.
• The GFDRR-funded program installed five new hydrometeorological stations in different climatic areas around the country.
