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

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

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...
Early action gets aid to communities before the vultures arrive

Early action gets aid to communities before the vultures arrive

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

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

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...