Challenges and approaches to Drought management in Latin America
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2025
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This policy note examines the current state of drought management in South America througha three-pillar framework: monitoring and early warning, vulnerability and impact assessment,and mitigation and preparedness. Findings reveal substantial heterogeneity across countries,with only a few adopting proactive and integrated approaches. Most responses remainreactive, characterized by institutional fragmentation, weak early warning systems, andlimited availability of vulnerability and impact data. A composite index indicates that nocountry fully meets all its goals. The main challenges include the predominance of reactiveand fragmented policy approaches, the weak integration of early warning systems andmonitoring tools into decision-making processes, institutional gaps and inadequateintersectoral coordination, limited development and use of vulnerability and impactassessments, and constrained financial and technical capacities to support long-termresilience-building efforts
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Drought policies, Drought governance, Risk-based management, South America