[Updated to include full report, January 2012.]

In partnership with the Rockefeller Foundation at the Bellagio Study and Conference Center on the shores of Lake Como in Italy, the EastWest Institute convened a retreat on “National Resilience in the Horn of Africa and the Arabian Peninsula” from October 17-21, 2011. This retreat was supported by a series of other consultations on the same subject which ran from mid-September until the end of October. These discussions engaged some 40 recognized leaders in global and regional policy, high-level private sector actors, and world-renowned research specialists in Brussels, London and Washington DC. The main outcome of the retreat was the shaping of a set of recommendations for G20 governments available with the event report here:

Bellagio Event Report.

• “Egypt Addressing Climate Change”, Climate Change Central Department, Egyptian Environmental Affairs Agency
• “Building Resilience in the Horn of Africa: Environmental Considerations”, Regional Office for Africa, Division of Regional Cooperation, UNEP
• “Strategic Alliances for Increasing Climate Resilience in Critical Localities”, Western Province, Rwanda
• “Energy Situation in Egypt”, Ministry of Environment, Egypt
• “Dust Storms in Saudi Arabia: Facts & a Strategy to Cope with”, King Saud University
• “New Science and Technologies to the Rescue of the Horn of Africa”, Nile Valley and Sub-Saharan Africa Regional Program, International Center for Agricultural Research in the Dry Areas (ICARDA)
• “Country-Level Governance of Climate Adaptation Finance for Building Resilience in the Developing World”, Ethiopian Civil Society Network on Climate Change (ECSNCC) hosted by Forum for Environment (FfE)
• “Assessment of Selected Development Policies and Strategies of Ethiopia from a Climate Change Perspective and Cross Border Cooperation”, Ethiopian Civil Society Network on Climate Change (ECSNCC) hosted by Forum for Environment (FfE)
• “Sustainable Development of Agriculture and Water Resources in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia”, King Saud University
• “Cross-Border Cooperation versus Local Initiatives – Assessment of Existing Policy Approaches to Natural Resources Management”, Inter-Islamic Network on Water Resources, Development and Management (INWRDAM)
• “Promoting Sustainable Desert Development as a Means for Reducing Effects of Global Warming in Regions Suffering from Scarcity in Water & Food Production”, Friends of Environment and Development Association (FEDA)