Catholic Relief Services Funds National Disaster Management Agency Training
What happened
Catholic Relief Services is providing funding to the National Disaster Management Agency through the EMPOWER Project. This funding supports a two-day intensive training for key national stakeholders in The Gambia, aimed at strengthening the country's climate resilience and addressing climate-induced loss and damage. The forum seeks to build robust mechanisms to identify, quantify, and report climate impacts.
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Why it matters
The initiative aims to transform national actors into strategic drivers of loss and damage action. The Deputy Executive Director of the National Disaster Management Agency noted that equipping national institutions is a necessary first step toward unlocking critical international climate finance.
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Who's involved
- Catholic Relief ServicesProvides financial support to the National Disaster Management Agency through the EMPOWER Project.
- National Disaster Management AgencyIs implementing the training initiative with funding from Catholic Relief Services.
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The entities involved
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Catholic Relief Services
global non profit organization
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National Disaster Management Agency
disaster management body of the Government of Eswatini
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