Afghanistan Drought Risk Management Strategy.

This Strategy provides a drought risk management by considering not only the enhances ongoing drought management but also by addressing the underlying risks and vulnerabilities to drought of communities and ecosystems. The text includes drought risk management by covering the issues of (i) prevention of new and exacerbation of existing risks, (ii) mitigation and reduction of existing risks, (iii) management of residual risks through preparedness, early actions and rapid response, and (iv) risk-informed recovery and integrating drought mitigation actions in sectoral annual work-planning and budgeting. The text consists of 6 Chapters as follow: Background (1); The Strategic Context (2); Elements of Drought Risk Management Strategy (3); Implementation Arrangement (4); Resource Requirements (5); and Operational Plan (6). The text has three Annexes.