The May 2023 CoP meeting reviewed action research progress and plans
Resilience
Advancing research on pastoral livelihoods in the face of environmental shocks
With SPARC, we are co-funding two post-docs working on pastoralism in drought affected East Africa
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 – Tahira Mohamed
Tahira works on the nexus between short-term humanitarian response and long-term resilience programming
Understanding anticipatory action in food crises
Save the Children UK commissioned research services to understand anticipatory action in a food crisis
Using geospatial data to estimate human livelihoods and poverty can help guide priorities
This post introduces ways that geospatial data is used to help assess and target where to allocate resources.
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
Early action priorities the focus of Observatory’s first community of practice meeting
The Observatory’s first face to face meeting of partners co-identified a set of ‘challenge questions’ to help guide the Observatory’s choice of research and other actions.
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