The Observatory reports on its research, dialogue and capacity development activities between July 2025 and June 2026.
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Behavioural considerations for effective early and anticipatory action
Proper attention to community needs and perceptions is key to behaviour change in drylands
Rethinking sustainable risk solutions for pastoral and agro-pastoral communities
Effective risk mitigation must balance urgent short-term actions with strategic long-term planning
Pastoral prosperities: Rethinking African drylands
Later this year, Observatory researchers and partners co-edit a book on the future of mobile pastoralism in Africa’s drylands
Earth observation forecasting: Can we prevent livestock feed crises?
Satellite data combined with ground observations can help forecast feed availability
Blending multiple knowledges for action: WCIS in pastoralist contexts
Pastoralists blend and adapt diverse knowledge and information sources and channels as they navigate uncertainties
Rethinking social protection in the drylands: Lessons from pastoralist communities
How social protection can be improved through complementary informal and formal systems
How can anticipatory action better support pastoralists?
Anticipatory action for pastoralist communities requires shifts towards locally grounded planning and actors
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Challenges
- Coordination (18)
- Data (32)
- Financing (8)
- Local Knowledge (39)
- Trust (8)
Components
- Capacity Development (20)
- Community of Practice (18)
- Dialogue (61)
- Impact Collaborations (10)
- Research (95)
Countries
Format Focus
Issues
- Anticipatory Action (94)
- Children (7)
- Climate Change (51)
- Conflict (3)
- Drought (108)
- Drylands (151)
- Early Action (127)
- Early Warning (81)
- Earth Observation (9)
- Floods (2)
- Food Security (28)
- Forecasts (13)
- Health (3)
- Insurance (8)
- Land (1)
- Livestock (38)
- Nutrition (6)
- Partnership (8)
- Pastoralism (120)
- Rangelands (22)
- Refugees (2)
- Resilience (78)
- Social Protection (4)
- Water (1)
Partners
- ABC (3)
- ACIAR (2)
- ADRA (2)
- AGNES (1)
- AICCRA (4)
- AIID-Africa (1)
- Anticipation Hub (1)
- ARC, Sudan (1)
- AU-IBAR (2)
- BIEA (9)
- BRAC (1)
- CHC (4)
- CIFA Ethiopia (4)
- Community Jameel (7)
- Conservation International (1)
- CRDD (14)
- Data for Children Collaborative (6)
- Data-Driven Initiative (1)
- DLCI (5)
- FAO (5)
- FEWS NET (1)
- ICPALD (8)
- IGAD (1)
- ILRI (87)
- iShamba (1)
- IWMI (1)
- JPAL (1)
- KMD (1)
- KSG (1)
- Landesa (1)
- Mercy Corps (5)
- MIT (1)
- NDMA (3)
- Oxfam (1)
- PPG (2)
- RVI (9)
- Save the Children (14)
- SDC (1)
- SPARC (20)
- Tufts University (11)
- UNHCR (1)
- University College Copenhagen (2)
- University of California (2)
- University of Edinburgh (57)
- University of Milan (5)
- University of Nairobi (1)
- University of Sussex (4)
- Urban Foresight (4)
- WHH (3)
- WISER (3)
People
Projects
Regions
- Africa (30)
- Eastern Africa (168)
- Horn of Africa (160)
- Southern Asia (1)
Themes
- Forecasting Data (17)
- Locally Led Action (15)
- Rethinking Early Action (14)
- Risk Resilience (12)