Since the 1960s, the Sahel region in Africa has experienced a general decline in the volume of rainfall. Between 1961 and 1998, droughts have affected Sudan with varying degrees of severity. The Assessment of Impacts of and Adaptation to Climate Change (AIACC) in Sudan, a GEF/UNDP funded project sought to examine the ways in which seventeen communities in drought-prone regions of the Sudan had been adversely affected by the impacts of climate change.