Development of a composite drought indicator for operational drought monitoring in the MENA region
This paper presents the composite drought indicator (CDI) that Jordanian, Lebanese, Moroccan, and Tunisian government agencies now produce monthly to support operational drought management decision making, and it describes their iterative co-development processes. The CDI is primarily intended to monitor agricultural and ecological drought on a seasonal time scale.
These results strongly reinforce findings elsewhere that development of environmental monitoring tools for policy application benefits from sequential and iterative development as well as robust interaction between producers of the tools and their end-users. Further, they show potential routes to consider, develop, and test robustly the scientific tools for policy application that governments across the Global South increasingly use, and that international institutions and donors incentivize them to use through climate change adaptation funding mechanism
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