With SPARC, we are co-funding two post-docs working on pastoralism in drought affected East Africa
Rain or shine, community elders seek more attention to drought in Kenya’s drylands
Discussing drought management with a group of elders from pastoral communities in Kenya
Reimagining local drought early action and responses in northern Kenya
Discussing drivers and blockers to effective local early action against droughts
Introducing Jameel Observatory post-doctoral fellow – Samuel Derbyshire
Sam Derbyshire works on socio-economic indicators and triggers in drought early warning systems.
Loss and Damage financing can help African communities with drought
Guyo Roba, argues that loss and damage funding could benefit African communities suffering from drought.
Early action gets aid to communities before the vultures arrive
Guyo Roba, Gary Watmough, and Stephen Mutiso of the Jameel Observatory explain how they aim to enhance drought preparation through collaboration and action.
Livestock insurance for East Africa pastoralists a long term focus of ILRI
This post introduces regional opportunities to scale out index-based livestock insurance (IBLI) in the Horn of Africa
Jameel Observatory approach critiqued
As a first step towards forming a community of practice to take the Jameel Observatory’s goals forward, we convened an informal virtual meeting in September with actors, partners, collaborators and stakeholders working on food security early action and climate change. The meeting aimed to introduce the Observatory’s work and solicit ideas and guidance on priority actions to take forward.
News Categories
About
Archive
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 (96)
Countries
Format Focus
Issues
- Anticipatory Action (95)
- Children (7)
- Climate Change (51)
- Conflict (3)
- Drought (108)
- Drylands (151)
- Early Action (128)
- Early Warning (81)
- Earth Observation (9)
- Floods (2)
- Food Security (28)
- Forecasts (13)
- Health (4)
- Insurance (8)
- Land (1)
- Livestock (38)
- Nutrition (6)
- Partnership (8)
- Pastoralism (121)
- 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 (5)
- CIFA Ethiopia (4)
- Community Jameel (7)
- Conservation International (1)
- CRDD (14)
- Data for Children Collaborative (6)
- Data-Driven Initiative (1)
- DLCI (6)
- FAO (5)
- FEWS NET (1)
- ICPALD (8)
- IGAD (1)
- ILRI (88)
- 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 (58)
- 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 (13)






