Responding to droughts

IASC Real Time Evaluation (IASC RTE) of the Humanitarian Response to the Horn of Africa Drought Crisis - Ethiopia

This real time evaluation (RTE) is one of four commissioned by the Inter-Agency Standing Committee (IASC), looking at the response to the Horn of Africa drought and food security crisis.

• Evaluations and Lessons Learned

From conflict to coping: Evidence from Southern Ethiopia on the contributions of peacebuilding to drought resilience among pastoralist groups

Mercy Corps' research into the links between conflict and drought resilience within the context of its programs in Southern Ethiopia provides strong evidence of the contributions of peacebuilding programming to pastoralists’ abilities to productively cope with and adapt to drought.

• Research and Studies

Cash-for-work in Somalia: Linking relief to recovery

This concept note gathers lessons learned from FAO’s experience in designing and implementing a cash for work programme in Somalia.

• Evaluations and Lessons Learned

Evaluation of Somalia Drought Response 2011/2012: Using Oxfam GB's Global Humanitarian Indicator Tool

Drought Contingency Plans and Planning in the Greater Horn of Africa

• Research and Studies

A Dangerous Delay: The cost of late response to early warnings in the 2011 drought in the Horn of Africa

This briefing examines the factors that allowed a drought in the Horn of Africa to develop into a full-scale crisis of hunger and livelihoods in 2011.

• Research and Studies

Ethiopia 2011 Drought Response Accountability review

• Evaluations and Lessons Learned

A creeping crisis: The neglect of education in slow-onset emergencies

This report focuses on the role and importance of education in mitigating the impact of droughts in east Africa and west Africa. Its recommendations are relevant both to those crises and to other countries likely to face slow-onset emergencies in the future.

• Research and Studies

Disasters Emergency Committee - East Africa Crisis Appeal Kenya Real-Time Evaluation Report

• Evaluations and Lessons Learned

Disasters Emergency Committee's (DEC) - East Africa Crisis Appeal Synthesis Report

• Research and Studies

Gender equality in the East Africa crisis response

Real-time evaluation of the 2011 East Africa crisis response by the UK Disasters Emergency Committee (DEC) and the Canadian Humanitarian Coalition.

• Evaluations and Lessons Learned

Long Term Planning Framework Somalia 2012-2015

• Research and Studies

UNICEF Global Evaluation Report Oversight System (GEROS) Review Template - IASC Real-Time Evaluation of the Humanitarian Response to the Horn of Africa Drought Crisis in Somalia, Ethiopia and Kenya: Synthesis Report

• Evaluations and Lessons Learned

Disaster Reduction in Africa: Special Issue on Drought Risk Reduction 2012

• Research and Studies

Good Practice Principles on Community Development for Use in DRR in the Drylands of the Horn of Africa

• Research and Studies

Building Resilience and Fostering Growth in the Horn of Africa

Disasters Emergency Committee - East Africa Crisis Appeal Ethiopia Real-Time Evaluation Report

Report of the mid-term evaluation of the SRCS/IFRC response to the 2010/11 Somalia drought

Final Independent Evaluation of the Community Based Drought Risk Management in the Borena Zone of Oromiya Region, Ethiopia

• Evaluations and Lessons Learned

Disaster risk reduction in the drylands of the Horn of Africa

• Research and Studies