**Acknowledgements**

Climate Risk and Early Warning Systems international initiative and the WMO provided financial support for the CREWS-PNG project. The Australian Government Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (DFAT) funded the PNG-CDP project. Projects of the Pacific Adaptation Strategy Assistance Program and the Pacific-Australia Climate Change Science Adaptation Planning program of the International Climate Change Adaptation Initiative were financially supported by the Australian Agency for International Development (AusAID), the Australian Government Department of Climate Change and Energy Efficiency (DCCEE) and the DFAT.

## **Conflict of interest**

Declaration: there is no conflict of interest.

*Drought - Detection and Solutions*
