by Jameel Observatory | May 19, 2023 | Anticipatory Action, Data, Data for Children Collaborative, Drought, Drylands, Early Action, Early Warning, Eastern Africa, Horn of Africa, Impact Collaborations, Projects
Together with the Data for Children Collaborative at the University of Edinburgh, we seek individuals and organizations to join us in an impact collaboration to find answers to the question: “How can we bridge the disconnects between food security, climatic and...
by Jameel Observatory | May 8, 2023 | ARC, Sudan, Bangladesh, BRAC, Climate Change, Community Jameel, Early Warning, Eastern Africa, JPAL, MIT, Partnership, Research, Southern Asia, Sudan
This week, the Jameel Observatory Climate Resilience Early Warning System Network (Jameel Observatory-CREWSnet) is undertaking an innovation sprint at the 2023 summit of the Agriculture Innovation Mission for Climate (AIM4C). The aim is to enhance climate action by...
by Jameel Observatory | May 1, 2023 | Bangladesh, Children, Climate Change, Data, Data for Children Collaborative, Impact Collaborations, Nutrition, Projects, University of Edinburgh
In 2022, the Observatory partnered with the Data for Children Collaborative in an impact collaboration process to investigate how we can best produce a time series of childhood wasting estimates that account for seasonality, survey timings and climate impacts. Here,...
by Jameel Observatory | Apr 30, 2023 | Climate Change, Drylands, Early Action, Eastern Africa, Food Security, Horn of Africa, News, Research, University of Edinburgh
The Jameel Observatory for Food Security Early Action seeks proposals for two fully funded PhD positions at the University of Edinburgh. To help advance progress towards its vision that ‘vulnerable pastoral and agro-pastoral communities in East Africa are more...
by Jameel Observatory | Apr 29, 2023 | Anticipatory Action, Climate Change, Drought, Drylands, Early Action, Eastern Africa, Horn of Africa, Kenya, Somalia
A new report by World Weather Attribution, a group that seeks to quickly determine whether certain extreme weather events were influenced by climate change, concludes that the ongoing drought in Eastern Africa has been made worse by human-induced...
by Jameel Observatory | Apr 28, 2023 | Climate Change, Drylands, Early Action, Eastern Africa, Food Security, Horn of Africa, News, Projects, Research, University of Edinburgh
To deepen engagement and bring in new skill sets from across the University of Edinburgh, the Jameel Observatory for Food Security Early Action seeks proposals from University of Edinburgh staff to support ot undertake action research on its key themes. The Jameel...
by Jameel Observatory | Apr 27, 2023 | Anticipatory Action, Drylands, Early Action, Eastern Africa, Horn of Africa, People, Research, University of Edinburgh
As part of its matchmaking approach that devises data-driven early action food security solutions for dry areas, the Jameel Observatory supports researchers looking for answers that pastoral communities can use to overcome climate changes. Observatory Students combine...
by Jameel Observatory | Feb 27, 2023 | Anticipatory Action, Drought, Drylands, Early Action, Eastern Africa, Financing, Horn of Africa, Pastoralism
Guyo Roba, head of the Jameel Observatory for Food Security Early Action, explains how loss and damage funding could provide the most benefit to African communities suffering from drought. Photo Credit: Colin Crowley/Save the Children:...
by Jameel Observatory | Feb 3, 2023 | Data, Eastern Africa, Horn of Africa, Livestock, People, Research, University of Edinburgh
As part of its matchmaking approach that devises data-driven early action food security solutions for dry areas, the Jameel Observatory supports researchers looking for answers that pastoral communities can use to overcome climate changes. Observatory Students combine...
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...
