Case studies
How governments, meteorological agencies and partners across Eastern Africa are turning forecasts into action — and where Husika carries the warning the last mile.
Case studies
Capacity building
23 September 2026
4 min read
Juba, South Sudan
Training South Sudan’s journalists to carry climate information to the public
In Juba, ICPAC, WFP, the South Sudan Ministry of Humanitarian Affairs and Disaster Management and the South Sudan Meteorological Service trained journalists to carry climate information to the public without changing the science — the first in a series of Husika trainings for the media across IGAD Member States.
Capacity building
21 July 2026
4 min read
Port Sudan, Sudan
Four days in Port Sudan: putting the Husika platform in national hands
ICPAC, Save the Children International and the Sudan Meteorological Authority ran a hands-on workshop on operating Husika — from forecast workflow to alert generation, delivered over SMS and IVR in Arabic and local languages.
Programme
12 June 2026
6 min read
South Sudan
SUSTAIN: standing up multi-hazard early warning in South Sudan
Communities and productive sectors in South Sudan face unprecedented climate impacts, yet the country lacks adequate capacity to monitor, predict and communicate them. SUSTAIN rebuilds that chain from the weather station upward — with Husika as the last mile.
Field story
8 May 2026
5 min read
Karamoja, Uganda
Sand dams and drought-tolerant seed: DRESS-EA in Uganda’s cattle corridor
Across Djibouti, Kenya, Sudan and Uganda, the DRESS-EA project pairs early warning investment with practical water and land technologies. In Karamoja, that means sand dams, mini-irrigation and pasture varieties that survive a failed season.
Capacity building
25 February 2026
5 min read
Naivasha, Kenya
Strengthening Cross-Border Animal Health Surveillance & Risk-Based Monitoring of Priority Transboundary Animal Diseases (TADs)
A Technical Working Group training in Naivasha brought animal health authorities from Ethiopia, Kenya, Somalia and South Sudan together to sharpen surveillance across three IGAD borderland clusters — and to integrate their national disease systems into the Husika regional platform.
Field story
23 April 2025
4 min read
Karamoja Cluster, Kenya and Uganda
From climate forecasts driven actions to sustainability: Strengthening cross-border early warning systems in the Karamoja Cluster
In the Karamoja Cluster, Participatory Scenario Planning sits meteorologists, traditional forecasters, livestock officers and community leaders from Kenya and Uganda around the same table to co-produce climate advisories — so communities anticipate drought rather than react to it.
Programme
1 April 2025
3 min read
Lodwar, Turkana
Launching Husika in Lodwar: an early warning app for the Karamoja Cluster
ICPAC and partners launched the Husika mobile and web application in Lodwar, Kenya — built to improve how alerts about extreme weather and natural disasters reach communities in remote and underserved areas of the IGAD Karamoja Cluster.
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