Early action gets aid to communities before the vultures arrive

Early action gets aid to communities before the vultures arrive

by | 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

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

by | 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

Delayed actions against drought and hunger cost lives

by | 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...