This is the August, 2012, issue of the Africa-Asia Drought Risk Management Peer Assistance Network (AADP) newsletter, a monthly e-newsletter dedicated to informing the practitioners and policymakers working in drought prone countries of drought risk management (DRM) related networking opportunities, projects/programmes and events taking place in Africa and Asia at various levels. AADP builds on the successful experiences of African Drought Risk and Development Network (ADDN), which was established in 2005. It intends to scale up the ADDN’s drought peer-learning/-assistance efforts from Africa regional to Africa-Asia inter-regional level.