NDMC collaborates with United Nations agencies and countries around the world to provide guidance and expertise around drought monitoring and planning.
Smith, K.; Walker, D.; Zhang, B. et al. 2025. Baseline Assessment of Drought Impact Monitoring; Integrated Drought Management Programme (IDMP), Integrated Drought Management Tools and Guidelines Series 3; World Meteorological Organization (WMO) and Integrated Drought Management Programme (IDMP): Geneva.
Guastello, P., Smith, K.H., Knutson, C., Svoboda, M. 2025. Drought Hotspots Around the World 2023-2025. 2025. A report for the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification, Bonn.
Drought Risk and Impact Assessment, an online course for drought planners and managers around the world created by the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification, including modules from NDMC researchers Cody Knutson and Kelly Helm Smith.
Mwale, N.S., Sievers, L.M., Bokal, S., Salman, M., Stefanski, R. & Aich, V. 2025. Mainstreaming gender in national drought plans, national action plans and national policies. Rome, FAO.
Kelly Helm Smith of the NDMC served as an expert reviewer.
NDMC drought impacts researcher Kelly Helm Smith led development of this policy brief for the U.N. Convention to Combat Desertification.
Svoboda, M., Fuchs, B. Handbook of Drought Indicators and Indices. World Meteorological Organization (WMO) and Global Water Partnership (GWP), 2016: Integrated Drought Management Programme (IDMP), Integrated Drought Management Tools and Guidelines Series 2.Geneva. ISBN 978-92-63-11173-9.
The first of a series of regional assessments from the Food and Agriculture Organization, with the Robert B. Daugherty Water for Food Institute. The NDMC's Cody Knutson served as an expert reviewer.
World Meteorological Organization (WMO) and Global Water Partnership (GWP) (2014) National Drought Management Policy Guidelines: A Template for Action (D.A. Wilhite). Integrated Drought Management Programme (IDMP) Tools and Guidelines Series 1. WMO, Geneva, Switzerland and GWP, Stockholm, Sweden.
Sivakumar, Mannava V.K., Raymond P. Motha, Donald A. Wilhite, and John J. Qu (Eds.). 2011. Proceedings of an Expert Meeting on the Preparation of a Compendium on National Drought Policy, July 14-15, 2011, Washington DC, USA: Geneva, Switzerland: World Meteorological Organization. AGM-12; WAOB-2011. 135
International Strategy for Disaster Reduction, 2009. The National Drought Mitigation Center’s Cody Knutson worked closely with the UN Secretariat of the International Strategy for Disaster Reduction to create and publish this guidance.
Food and Agriculture Organization, 2008.