This report reviews information on drought characteristics and management in the Caribbean region, identifies the relevant national and regional agencies and focal points involved in drought management, and brings together information on their work at national and regional level.

Centre’s drought crisis management plan explains that relief measures must be implemented by States with its active cooperation. The manual sets out four important measures that a State government should take at the time of a drought, with the Union government’s help.

Centre’s drought crisis management plan explains that relief measures must be implemented by States with its active cooperation. The manual sets out four important measures that a State government should take at the time of a drought, with the Union government’s help.

This book focuses on the medium-term prospects (over the next two decades) for increasing the resilience to drought and other shocks of people living in dryland areas of East and West Africa.