Drylands recovery and development in the Horn of Africa: The need for community control and empowerment, education and pro-poor infrastructure

This position paper explains the need for drylands recovery and development in the Horn of Africa through community control and empowerment, education and pro-poor infrastructure. It asserts that if focus could be shifted to long term resiliency measures instead of emergency response, it would enable communities themselves to decide their futures. Studies show that rainfall in many of the drought affected areas is too variable for rainfed crop production and this
variability is likely to increase in future.