Uploaded June 2025 | Updated September 2026, 1 day ago
This agreement offers protection from disasters by allowing people to move across borders to seek safety from natural hazards.
IGAD – the Intergovernmental Authority on Development, made up of eight Member States from the Horn of Africa, Nile Valley and the African Great Lakes – is prone to multiple hazards including droughts, floods, landslides and food insecurity.
Dr Nicodemus Nyandiko, Senior Lecturer at the Department of Disaster Management and Sustainable Development, Masinde Muliro University of Science and Technology, Kenya, explains how the IGAD Protocol on Free Movement of Persons facilitates assistance by Member States to those affected by disasters in neighbouring Member States.
This agreement shows how international cooperation and good disaster governance can help build resilience for everyone.
Every day counts, act for resilience today.
#GP2025 #ActForResilienceToday
Visit the Global Platform for Disaster Risk Reduction 2025: globalplatform.undrr.org
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This agreement offers protection from disasters by allowing people to move across borders to seek safety from natural hazards.
IGAD – the Intergovernmental Authority on Development, made up of eight Member States from the Horn of Africa, Nile Valley and the African Great Lakes – is prone to multiple hazards including droughts, floods, landslides and food insecurity.
Dr Nicodemus Nyandiko, Senior Lecturer at the Department of Disaster Management and Sustainable Development, Masinde Muliro University of Science and Technology, Kenya, explains how the IGAD Protocol on Free Movement of Persons facilitates assistance by Member States to those affected by disasters in neighbouring Member States.
This agreement shows how international cooperation and good disaster governance can help build resilience for everyone.
Every day counts, act for resilience today.
#GP2025 #ActForResilienceToday
Visit the Global Platform for Disaster Risk Reduction 2025: globalplatform.undrr.org
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Subscribe to UNDRR on YouTube: youtube.com/channel/UCUw0G3AdE_0EDhcDPlJtJyA?sub_confirmation=1
Captions: Where possible we provide additional captions to make our videos more accessible to those who use assistive technology, such as screen readers. If you don't require the captions they can be toggled off using the CC button, usually at the bottom of the video display.
About UNDRR:
The United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction (UNDRR) has a big ambition: to help decision-makers across the globe better understand and act on risk. At UNDRR, we believe there is no such thing as a natural disaster. A natural hazard, such as a hurricane, earthquake, tsunami, or flood, only becomes a disaster when it impacts a community that is not adequately protected and whose population is vulnerable as a result of poverty, exclusion, or social disadvantage. We envision a world where disasters no longer threaten the well-being of people and the future of the planet. Sustainable development and the 2030 Agenda cannot be achieved without working towards the goal of building resilience.
Learn more about UNDRR: undrr.org
Learn more about disaster risk reduction: preventionweb.net
Sign up for updates: undrr.org/subscribe-undrr-updates
Follow:
linkedin.com/company/undrr
twitter.com/UNDRR
facebook.com/unisdr
