The Observatory reports on its research, dialogue and capacity development activities between July 2025 and June 2026.
Risk Resilience
Health systems and anticipatory actions for resilient drylands
Anticipatory health systems require upstream preventive interventions as well as downstream systems that can act.
Rethinking sustainable risk solutions for pastoral and agro-pastoral communities
Effective risk mitigation must balance urgent short-term actions with strategic long-term planning
Advancing early action for dryland resilience and prosperity in the Horn of Africa
OurApril writeshop synthesized emerging insights from our work around early action in drylands
Resilient rangelands: Practical solutions for pastoralist futures
Resilient Rangelands is the focus of our May 2026 joint pavilion at the GLF Africa event on ‘Stewarding Our Rangelands’
Supporting pastoralist resilience through real-time monitoring of drought
DIRISHA project final report shows potential of crowdsourced data for drought early warning
Risks and their impacts on pastoralist livelihoods
At the ‘Building the Resilience and Prosperity of Pastoralists and Dryland Communities’ dialogue, we explored shocks facing pastoralist communities
Designing livestock insurance subsidy programmes in Ethiopia’s drylands
Xandru Cassar introduces the significance of his research on livestock insurance
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Challenges
- Coordination (18)
- Data (32)
- Financing (8)
- Local Knowledge (39)
- Trust (8)
Components
- Capacity Development (20)
- Community of Practice (18)
- Dialogue (61)
- Impact Collaborations (10)
- Research (96)
Countries
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Issues
- Anticipatory Action (95)
- Children (7)
- Climate Change (51)
- Conflict (3)
- Drought (108)
- Drylands (151)
- Early Action (128)
- Early Warning (81)
- Earth Observation (9)
- Floods (2)
- Food Security (28)
- Forecasts (13)
- Health (4)
- Insurance (8)
- Land (1)
- Livestock (38)
- Nutrition (6)
- Partnership (8)
- Pastoralism (121)
- Rangelands (22)
- Refugees (2)
- Resilience (78)
- Social Protection (4)
- Water (1)
Partners
- ABC (3)
- ACIAR (2)
- ADRA (2)
- AGNES (1)
- AICCRA (4)
- AIID-Africa (1)
- Anticipation Hub (1)
- ARC, Sudan (1)
- AU-IBAR (2)
- BIEA (9)
- BRAC (1)
- CHC (5)
- CIFA Ethiopia (4)
- Community Jameel (7)
- Conservation International (1)
- CRDD (14)
- Data for Children Collaborative (6)
- Data-Driven Initiative (1)
- DLCI (6)
- FAO (5)
- FEWS NET (1)
- ICPALD (8)
- IGAD (1)
- ILRI (88)
- iShamba (1)
- IWMI (1)
- JPAL (1)
- KMD (1)
- KSG (1)
- Landesa (1)
- Mercy Corps (5)
- MIT (1)
- NDMA (3)
- Oxfam (1)
- PPG (2)
- RVI (9)
- Save the Children (14)
- SDC (1)
- SPARC (20)
- Tufts University (11)
- UNHCR (1)
- University College Copenhagen (2)
- University of California (2)
- University of Edinburgh (58)
- University of Milan (5)
- University of Nairobi (1)
- University of Sussex (4)
- Urban Foresight (4)
- WHH (3)
- WISER (3)
People
Projects
Regions
- Africa (30)
- Eastern Africa (168)
- Horn of Africa (160)
- Southern Asia (1)
Themes
- Forecasting Data (17)
- Locally Led Action (15)
- Rethinking Early Action (14)
- Risk Resilience (13)