Data, droughts and food security: Insights from a Kenya datathon

by Jameel Observatory | Jun 29, 2023 | Anticipatory Action, Data, Drought, Drylands, Early Action, Early Warning, Eastern Africa, Food Security, Horn of Africa, ILRI, Kenya, Save the Children, University of Edinburgh

Enhancing the usefulness of weather forecasts and impact data for effective early action by development, humanitarian and community organisations is central to one of the Observatory’s challenge questions. In early May 2023, we brought together a group of people...

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,...

Anticipatory action to mitigate drought-induced crises: Learning from Kenya and Somalia

by Jameel Observatory | Jun 17, 2022 | Anticipatory Action, Eastern Africa, Horn of Africa, Kenya, News, Research, Save the Children, Somalia, University of Edinburgh

In May, Save the Children and Oxfam in partnership with the Jameel Observatory launched the ‘dangerous delay 2 report’ calling for urgent action to tackle the catastrophic hunger crisis in East Africa. It also called for governments, humanitarian agencies and other...

Delayed actions against drought and hunger cost lives

by Jameel Observatory | May 18, 2022 | Anticipatory Action, Climate Change, Community Jameel, Drylands, Early Action, Eastern Africa, Horn of Africa, Kenya, Oxfam, Research, Save the Children, Somalia

Ten years on from the 2012 Dangerous Delay report that examined the costs of late response to the 2011 drought in the Horn of Africa, millions of people in Ethiopia, Kenya and Somalia once again face hunger and famine. To save lives now, Oxfam, Save the Children and...