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What is the financial capacity to implement the tools/solutions?

The cost to implement solutions is highly variable and the financial capacity will help identify the solutions most relevant for you.

Low
Low financial capacity is applicable to individuals, communities that are poor and/or organsiations with little means to wear the cost of drought risk reduction solutions.
Medium
Medium financial capacity is applicable to people, communities and/or organisations that could wear some of the costs of solutions for reducing drought risk but will need co-investment from funding bodies
High
High financial capacity is applicable to people, communities and/or organisations with the capacity to wear the costs of solutions for reducing drought ris
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Drought-related health implications
Improved health monitoring
SLM example from the WOCAT database
In situ decomposition of banana stalks (Philippines)
SLM example from the WOCAT database
Mulch, screen and irrigation technology (Tonga)
SLM example from the WOCAT database
Use of waste water for irrigation (Italy)
SLM example from the WOCAT database
Dedha grazing system (Kenya)
SLM example from the WOCAT database
Banana intercropping on sloping land (Lao PDR)
Keyhole homestead/domestic gardens (Bangladesh)
SLM example from the WOCAT database
Convert marginal cropping land to grazing (Slovenia)
SLM example from the WOCAT database
Livestock insurance program (Kenya)
SLM example from the WOCAT database
Vegetated earth-banked terraces (Spain)
Growing corn using drip irrigation (Cambodia)
Desalination technology
Water reuse and recycling
Assessing drought damage and vulnerability
Recharge depleted groundwater reserves
Groundwater recharge
Improving water supply infraestructure
Reducing losses in water supply infrastructure
Solar powered groundwater pumps
Fog harvesting
SLM example from the WOCAT database
Rainwater harvesting (Saint Lucia)
Technological and social adaptability approaches
Drought proof drought prone villages (India)
Improve water facilities for schools
Improved water supply to schools (large concrete tanks and wells)
Drought-smart land management and gender
Gender equality issues to the center of LDN
Sonoma County Master Gardeners have produced several documents that address gardening under drought conditions.
Food gardening in a drought water-saving strategies
Realising the Carbon Benefits of Sustainable Land Management Practices. A report of the Science-Policy Interface
Manage SOC using sustainable land management to pursue LDN
Decision trees for SOC estimation and management to achieve LDN
The GWP IWRM ToolBox Management Instruments
The GWP IWRM ToolBox Institutional Arrangements
The GWP IWRM ToolBox The Enabling Environment
Gender entry points in the development of a national drought management policy
Guidelines and Background Documents for Development of National Drought Plan
A Report of the Science-Policy Interface
SLM example from the WOCAT database
On-farm ponds to harvest rainwater (Cambodia)
Good water governance toolbox
GWP: Integrated Water Resources Management Toolbox
Tools, methodologies, publications, and best practices
FAO: The Drought Portal
Integrated Drought Management HelpDesk: Mitigation, Preparedness & Response
Integrated Drought Management HelpDesk
Rainwater harvesting in Kiribati
Drought Risk Assessment
SLM example from the WOCAT database
Integrated floodwater spreading systems (Iran)
SLM example from the WOCAT database
Prosopis cineraria agroforestry (India)
SLM example from the WOCAT database
Rice grain bank as community safety net (Cambodia)
Monitoring water quality
Better ground/surface water monitoring systems
Water purification technology: Reverse osmosis
Back-up water supply infrastructure – e.g. RO units
Water purification technologies
Livestock practices during drought
Livestock rotation practices and de-stocking
Plantings of trees and shrubs in agricultural systems
Shelterbelts
Rangeland and grazing systems management
Forage reserves
Store cut hay for drought times
Stockpile fodder
Livestock breed tolerant to drought
Low water use animals/breeds
Use of native plant species, traditional knowledge
Use of indigenous feed and fodder
New livestock watering points
Protecting livestock keepers from drought-related losses
Livestock insurance
Media information and drought awareness raising campaigns
Crop diversification
Water efficient, drought tolerant crop varieties
Irrigation strategies
Deficit irrigation
New or expanded irrigation systems
Irrigation techniques, efficiency of water use
Modernisation of irrigation to use less water
Near real-time drought monitoring systems
Satellite technology for drought monitoring
Data-acquisition unit (arQ)
Agrometeorological stations in highly vulnerable agricultural areas
Household-level access to piped water
Soap and sanitizer distribution programs
Crop diversification
Early maturing crop varieties
Reduced harvest insurance systems
Crop insurance systems
Domestic rainwater harvesting structures
Food security: humanitarian decisions
Improved food security risk monitoring
Water storage practices
Increase capacity of exisiting water storages
Water supply infrastructure, meter, and monitoring
Water pricing and economic incentives to reduce use
Teaching water conservation in schools
Measurement: consumption of water
Monitoring and metering water resources
Water eficiency in times of shortages
Promotion of domestic and commercial water-saving technologies
Irrigation: optimize production by minimizing inputs and risks
Promotion of water-saving technologies in irrigation
Long-term benefits in groundwater
Groundwater management and conservation
Microloan for poverty-stricken individuals
New finance and credit schemes (e.g. microcredit)
Water, soil and crop requirements
Proper fertilisation
Women traditional knowledge in food supplies
Innovative indigenous and gender-balanced knowledge for agriculture
Sustainable use of agricultural waste
Promotion of farm waste recycling and re-use
Sand dams
Land restoration
Soil moisture probes
Soil mulching
Plant phenology and plant development
Adjust cropping calendars to avoid heat stress
Soil conservation
No-till/conservation agriculture
Thinking ahead: Drought resilience and COVID-19