Collapse of pastoral coping mechanisms in Djibouti

Peste des Petit Ruminants (PPR) in Kenya, spreading to Uganda & Somalia

Crisis negatively impacts on people’s coping capacity

Short-term emergency aid potentially undermines resilience and fails to address underlying causes of crises

10.8 million are directly affected by conflict and political instability at present

Overall: 1 in every 12 people are affected by crisis in ESA region

To understand the impacts of aid on these systems

To enhance food security in high stress / unstable situations through improving interventions before, during and after crisis

To work with implementing agencies to improve emergency preparedness, mitigation, relief, recovery and rehabilitation

To identify the key drivers behind decreased resilience

To identify ways of enhancing coping strategies, resilience and mitigation to stresses

To identify adaptation measures that have helped communities to cope with extreme events and other change processes

To identify technologies, institutional and policy processes to be promoted as part of Disaster Risk Reduction measures

To help identify tools and approaches (from INRM) through which relief and developmental interventions can be better integrated