The IGAD Climate Prediction and Applications Centre (ICPAC) is a specialized institution of the Intergovernmental Authority on Development (IGAD), based in Nairobi, Kenya, mandated to provide timely climate early warning information and support specifc sector applications to enable the region cope with risks associated with climate variability and change including providing climate applications for poverty alleviation, environment management and sustainable development. ICPAC also hosts the Disaster Risk Management Unit and the IGAD Food Security,Nutrition and Resilience Analysis Hub (IFRAH).
The specialized IGAD Centre started as a Drought Monitoring Centre (DMC) in 1989, in response to the devastating drought that occurred in eastern Africa in the 1980s. A Protocol that fully integrated the institution into IGAD was signed on 13 April 2007. The Centre serves eight IGAD member countries namely: Djibouti, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Kenya, Somalia, South Sudan, Sudan and Uganda as well as three non-IGAD member countries, namely Burundi, Rwanda and Tanzania.
