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DANGEROUS DELAY 2 - THE COST OF INACTION

17 May 2022

• Food assistance needs are over 70% higher than during GENDER DIMENSIONS OF HUNGER the 2016–17 drought, mostly driven by the impacts of conflict in northern Ethiopia and drought in the Eastern Our failure to respond in time to the food crisis Horn and reduced resilience after the impacts of Covid in East Africa is exposing the existing flaws in 19, locusts and floods. [...] The experience, the declaration of the drought emergency at the knowledge, capacity and agency to take contextually national level by scaling up payments via the HSNP appropriate anticipatory action is found at a local level, from and delivering water trucks to at-risk households sub-national to community, and in the informal system. [...] The evidence for anticipatory action and action based on forecasting has proven convincing over the past decade and • Scale up flexible and multi-year funding is a significant achievement, but there are still gaps in how to support anticipatory action in advance triggers link to the flow of funds, and particularly in how of shocks and cascade benefits of quality forecasting and funding can work wh. [...] to generate a detailed understanding of enablers of anticipatory action on the slow onset crises in Kenya and Limitations Somalia through the real-time and historic tracking of data sharing (from March 2020 to December 2021), decision The primary limitation was that while the intention was making, and action from the failure of OND rains in 2020. [...] It is important to note release of information, and the decisions and actions of that, in the midst of a humanitarian response, actors in government, UN, international NGO, national and local Kenya and Somalia struggled to distinguish anticipatory civil society organizations in Kenya and Somalia, as well action, early action and early response.
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