by Jameel Observatory | Feb 1, 2023 | Anticipatory Action, Drought, Early Action, Eastern Africa, Food Security, Horn of Africa, Kenya, Resilience, Save the Children, Somalia
Our partner Save the Children UK seeks proposals for research services to understand what anticipatory action looks like in a protracted food crisis (Kenya and Somalia). Download the full request for proposals here – deadline is 15 February 2023 Save the Children has...
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,...
by Jameel Observatory | Dec 7, 2022 | About, Data, Data-Driven Initiative, Partnership, University of Edinburgh
The Jameel Observatory is one of many projects linked to the Data-Driven Innovation (DDI) initiative at the University of Edinburgh and Heriot Watt University as part of the Edinburgh and South East Scotland city region deal. In its first annual review, the DDI...
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...
by Jameel Observatory | Oct 24, 2022 | Data, Eastern Africa, Projects, 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...
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,...
