This event discussed the ODI Humanitarian Policy Group's analysis of the humanitarian response to the drought.
This meeting focussed on responses to the drought in the Greater Horn of Africa. The main themes of the discussion were the historical perspective, early warning, humanitarian responses and the disconnect between emergency response and development.
This workshop reviewed the Somalia Aid Coordination Body (SACB) Agricultural Sector Strategy, and defined and elaborated the way forward, based on the current status and lessons learned.
This workshop reviewed the Somalia Aid Coordination Body (SACB) Agricultural Sector Strategy, and defined and elaborated the way forward, based on the current status and lessons learned.
Laure-Hélène Piron has been involved in two DFID/UNDP missions to Somaliland and Puntland. The first mission involved an assessment of whether DFID could provide more and better adapted support to UNDP Somalia's Rule of Law and Security Programme and share DFID experiences with SSAJ, including in post-conflict and fragile states. Laure-Hélène participated as access to justice and human rights expert and author of evaluation report. The second mission involved a review of the UNDP Rule of Law and Security programme in Somalia.
This discussion paper describes some of the preliminary findings and provisional conclusions from the ODI ‘Measuring Needs’ study, one part of the research programme commissioned under the Humanitarian Financing initiative.
This Working paper considers interventions by two organisations, in light of the working paper theme of linking livelihood approaches with recent work in the area of political economy. Save the Children-UK (SC-UK) and the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) work in southern Somalia and aim to support livelihoods within a situation of chronic conflict and political instability (SCCPI). This paper describes the context in which the two organisations work in terms of the livelihood systems within southern Somalia, political economy themes as they relate to southern Somalia and programming possibilities in the area. The authors critically review two livelihood support programmes as case studies. These case studies aim to draw out the ways in which and to what extent the programmes of SC-UK and ICRC support livelihoods. How, and to what extent, the analysis of the political economy informs decision making by the two organisations is also explored.
Based on a study undertaken in southern Somalia, this paper describes the impacts of insecurity, shocks and stresses on agriculture, and examines whether relief seed distributions are the most appropriate way of providing assistance to farmers affected by disaster.
