Questionnaire results

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Questionnaire results

• Your contribution to the network

2
Contributing to publications for the Network?

• Informal sharing with other participants.
• Sharing lessons learned/good practices
• Specific project sharing
• Share experience from Arab region
• Country/region specific material/experiences
  (case studies)
• Awareness raising
• Policy advocacy
• Monitoring and quality assurance
• Science development
• General climate information

3
Role in future Forums?

• Involvement in all areas was expressed
  (representative, speaker, panelist, help
  organize, host event)
• Some details included
• Assist in giving shape and direction to the
  networking/learning collaboration efforts
• Assisting to set up the agenda
• Contribute to the organization of an exchange
  visit and exhibitions
• Collaborative knowledge generation in drought
  adaptation
• Participation in platform for sharing information

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Contributions to the networks website
activities?

• Involvement in all areas was expressed (section
  editor, manage an e-discussion, content
  contributor)
• Some details included
• Country drought initiatives and their
  effectiveness
• Annual drought indicator data
• Interactive event design
• Collaborative content development (i.e. Wikis,
  etc.)
• Peer learning, peer assist, peer production
• Links to websites
• Sharing resources
• Lessons learned/printed or video
• Share experience
• Help link governments
• Distribute information about the Network

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Drought related capacity building opportunities
or products that are taking place in the next 12
months?

• Climate change adaptation and web training in
  Egypt, Uganda and elsewhere (Cap-net)
• ISDR African Regional Platform on DRR
• CILSS, ECOWAS (WMO) workshop on SLM in West
  Africa
• Regional (COMESA) Livestock and Pastoralism Forum
  meeting
• DRR training courses for Horn being developed
  (Oxfam)
• Scientific conference of the UNCCD (CST) Nov
  (4-7) 2008 Istanbul
• UNDP BCPR capacity building project for DRR and
  drought in Namibia
• Mozambique drought mainstreaming workshop
• Several ISDR publications on drought risk
  reduction, good practices and managing drought
  risks
• Holistic management, planned holistic grazing
  over the next 6 months (ELMT and interested
  partners
• Meeting on the review and analysis of drought
  policies of the HOA (IGAD and ISDR and SIDA)