Collaborate for impact – Help tackle drought and food security ‘early warning to early action’ gaps in the Horn of Africa

by Jameel Observatory | May 19, 2023 | Anticipatory Action, Data, Data for Children Collaborative, Drought, Drylands, Early Action, Early Warning, Eastern Africa, Horn of Africa, Impact Collaborations, Projects

Together with the Data for Children Collaborative at the University of Edinburgh, we seek individuals and organizations to join us in an impact collaboration to find answers to the question: “How can we bridge the disconnects between food security, climatic and...

Human-induced climate change increased drought severity in Horn of Africa

by Jameel Observatory | Apr 29, 2023 | Anticipatory Action, Climate Change, Drought, Drylands, Early Action, Eastern Africa, Horn of Africa, Kenya, Somalia

A new report by World Weather Attribution, a group that seeks to quickly determine whether certain extreme weather events were influenced by climate change, concludes that the ongoing drought in Eastern Africa has been made worse by human-induced...

Loss and Damage financing can help African communities with drought

by Jameel Observatory | Feb 27, 2023 | Anticipatory Action, Drought, Drylands, Early Action, Eastern Africa, Financing, Horn of Africa, Pastoralism

Guyo Roba, head of the Jameel Observatory for Food Security Early Action, explains how loss and damage funding could provide the most benefit to African communities suffering from drought. Photo Credit: Colin Crowley/Save the Children:...

Understanding anticipatory action in food crises

by Jameel Observatory | Feb 1, 2023 | Anticipatory Action, Drought, Early Action, Eastern Africa, Food Security, Horn of Africa, Kenya, Resilience, Save the Children, Somalia

With support from the Jameel Observatory, Save the Children UK has commissioned a study to better understand what anticipatory action for food crises looks like. Save the Children has been implementing a Community Jameel funded project in Kenya and Somalia that seeks...

Early action gets aid to communities before the vultures arrive

by Jameel Observatory | Dec 9, 2022 | About, Anticipatory Action, Drought, Drylands, Early Action, Eastern Africa, Horn of Africa, ILRI, Kenya, Pastoralism, Save the Children, Somalia, University of Edinburgh

People in drylands sometimes associate humanitarian aid workers with vultures – noticing that they arrive around the same time when animals have already died and the response is too late. A more promising approach is to anticipate droughts and other shocks,...

How livestock data can counter food and climate shocks

by Jameel Observatory | Nov 2, 2022 | Data, Drought, Early Action, Eastern Africa, Horn of Africa, ILRI, Kenya, Livestock

Data and information drive early warning systems that alert policy makers and communities to emerging food and climate shocks.   For communities in arid and dry areas of East Africa, livestock are a critical asset, providing food and livelihoods as well as being...