By Evan Easton-Calabria , Abdirahman Ahmed , Dawud Mohamed , Aarti Singh December 2023 While anticipatory action (AA) is commonly designed to address one specific hazard such as drought, many...
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Mobility Matters: The Benefits of Pastoralist Mobility for Nutrition in Marsabit and Isiolo Counties, Kenya
By Elizabeth Stites , Achiba Gargule , Padmini Iyer , Helen Young Pastoralist mobility underpins resilience, food security, nutrition, and human and animal health. This learning brief presents...
Vulnerability, Risk, and Resilience: The implications for the drivers of malnutrition in Isiolo and Marsabit Counties, Kenya
By Helen Young , Achiba Gargule , Elizabeth Stites , Anastasia Marshak , Judith Munga , Elijah Odundo , Sophie Ochola The resilience of pastoralism as a livelihood system stands out, even with the...
WHAT is the state of acute malnutrition in Marsabit and Isiolo Counties, and WHO is at risk?
By Anastasia Marshak , Ayane Ezaki , Elijah Odundo , Judith Munga , Achiba Gargule , Elizabeth Stites , Sophie Ochola , Helen Young Parts of northern Kenya face persistently high rates of child acute...
Yemen + 4 more
Do Famine Declarations Really Lead to Increased Funding?
AUTHORS Daniel Maxwell, Matthew Day, Peter Hailey Throughout 2022, as the situation worsened in the Horn of Africa, there were numerous calls from journalists and humanitarian leaders for famine to...
Sex, age (and more) still matter: Data collection, analysis, and use in humanitarian practice
DYAN MAZURANA, ANASTASIA MARSHAK, KINSEY SPEARS Executive Summary and Key Findings Progress has been made but more is needed: The gender myth: Nearly everyone in the humanitarian industry that we...
Ethiopia + 4 more
Famine Prevention: A Landscape Report
In 2022, the number of people caught in extreme acute food insecurity climbed to over 200 million. By 2023, famine, mass starvation, and the use of starvation as a weapon of war have once again...
Another Humanitarian (and Political) Crisis in Somalia in 2022
Somalia is facing a humanitarian crisis of major severity and magnitude in 2022, following four failed rainy seasons, an on-going protracted conflict, and the impact of rising global food prices—the...
De l’importance de la saisonnalité: comment les variations cycliques impactent la malnutrition aiguë dans la province du Sila au Tchad
Une prévalence de la malnutrition aiguë globale (MAG) supérieure à 15% est l'un des principaux indicateurs d'une crise humanitaire. Pourtant, les taux de MAG persistent souvent au-dessus de ce seuil...
World + 4 more
Seeing in the Dark: Real-Time Monitoring in Humanitarian Crises
Introduction Humanitarian information systems typically provide analysis to predict crisis, assess needs, direct program resources, and assess short- to medium-term effects of programs. But much of...
Seasonality of Acute Malnutrition and its Drivers in Sila Province, Chad: a mixed methods analysis
This report explores the seasonal patterns of acute malnutrition and its key drivers in the Goz Beida Region of Chad. The findings reveal a nuanced and complex seasonal pattern of wasting...
Uganda + 14 more
Supporting the financial health of refugees: the Finance in Displacement (FIND) study in Uganda and Mexico
By Karen Jacobsen and Kim Wilson 1. Introduction One of the biggest challenges facing refugees and migrants is navigating the livelihoods and financial landscape of a camp or city after they arrive...
Seasonality matters: how cyclical changes trigger drivers of acute malnutrition in Chad’s Sila Province
A prevalence of global acute malnutrition (GAM) above 15 percent is one of the main indicators of a humanitarian crisis. Yet GAM rates often persist above this emergency threshold beyond the acute...
Seasonality, sex, and acute malnutrition in Chad’s Sila Province
The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) set to eliminate all forms of malnutrition by 2030. However, since the adoption of the SDGs, progress on child wasting has been slow. Recently, there have...
Budikadidi Support of Childcare for Infants and Young Children
A primary aim of Budikadidi is to improve the nutrition of children.Women in the Budikadidi communities were grouped into Neighbor Groups of 15 neighboring women, one of whom was designated a Lead...
Nutrition in Africa’s drylands: A conceptual framework for addressing acute malnutrition
The UNICEF conceptual framework of the causes of malnutrition has been widely adopted across both development and humanitarian spheres. However, there are key elements of the framework that require...
Changing land tenure regimes: Taadoud integrated natural resource management learning brief 1
Introduction The majority of Darfur livelihoods depend on farming and pastoralist systems of production, either directly or indirectly. These two systems, or livelihood specializations, have given...
Kenya + 2 more
Classifying Acute Food Insecurity Using the Household Hunger Scale: Evidence from Three Countries
Problem statement The currently accepted means of categorizing household food insecurity and identifying famine or famine risk is the Integrated Food Security Phase Classification (IPC) tool. IPC has...
Famine, the coronavirus, and the politics of information and analysis
Daniel Maxwell, Peter Hailey, Anne Radday In early 2020, leaders around the world declared “war” with a virus. Such declarations are often used to legitimize actions that leaders use to take control...
Yemen + 5 more
The Politics of Information and Analysis in Famines and Extreme Emergencies: Synthesis of Findings from Six Case Studies
By Daniel Maxwell and Peter Hailey 1. Introduction This study considers the constraints on data collection and analysis in extreme food security emergencies in countries with a high risk of famine...