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...

Using geospatial data to estimate human livelihoods and poverty can help guide priorities

by Jameel Observatory | Oct 24, 2022 | Data, Eastern Africa, Projects, Research, Resilience, University of Edinburgh

The Jameel Observatory combines the local knowledge and concerns of communities facing on-the-ground threats of hunger with innovations in data science and humanitarian action;  teaming up to devise solutions that can help predict, prepare for and overcome...

Livestock insurance for East Africa pastoralists a long term focus of ILRI

by Jameel Observatory | Jul 18, 2022 | Eastern Africa, ILRI, Kenya, Livestock, Partners, Pastoralism, Projects, Resilience, Somalia

The Jameel Observatory for Food Security Early Action combines the local knowledge and concerns of communities facing on-the-ground threats of hunger with innovations in data science and humanitarian action;  teaming up to devise solutions that can help predict,...

Early action priorities the focus of Observatory’s first community of practice meeting

by Jameel Observatory | May 5, 2022 | Climate Change, Coordination, Data, Dialogues, Drylands, Early Action, Eastern Africa, Financing, Food Security, Local Knowledge, Resilience, Trust

The Horn of Africa is in the middle of another drought that is disastrous to millions of people living in pastoral areas. The early signs were clear way back in 2020 but the humanitarian response will, as so often, only kick in once the crisis is at its peak and lives...

Jameel Observatory approach critiqued

by Peter Ballantyne | Oct 29, 2021 | Climate Change, Data, Drylands, Early Action, Eastern Africa, Food Security, Pastoralism, Resilience

The Jameel Observatory for Food Security Early Action brings together leading research and humanitarian agencies to help tackle the growing threat to people in the world’s drylands posed by the increasing severity and frequency of climate-related disasters. As a first...

Jameel Observatory launched

by Jameel Observatory | Sep 21, 2021 | Climate Change, Data, Drylands, Early Action, Food Security, News, Pastoralism, Resilience

The Jameel Observatory for Food Security Early Action has been created to help tackle the growing threat to people in the world’s drylands posed by the increasing severity and frequency of climate-related disasters. The new venture brings together leading research and...