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UN Inter-Agency Standing Group Releases First Draft of Horn of Africa Crisis Real-Time Evaluation
Published on 10 May 2012
In 2011, the drought and complex food crisis in Kenya affected more than 3.75 million local people and almost 600,000 refugees. The deepening of the crisis in July triggered the commissioning by the UN Emergency Relief Coordinator of a real-time evaluation (RTE) of the crisis. The report has now been released and focuses on three key areas of the humanitarian response:
- Regional structure, roles and leadership
- Early warning and early action
- Information management and communication
Amongst its key conclusions, the IASC’s Kenya RTE found:
“...that once mobilized, that the IA humanitarian response was significant and met many beneficiary needs. However, the response and mitigation measures were delayed despite clear early warning data. This can be prevented in the future by investing in scalable DRR programming, and augmenting the IA community’s collective ability to create dynamic analyses and contingency planning that guide better forward leaning decision making.”
The ECB Project’s Accountability and Impact Measurement (AIM) advisers are currently providing feedback on the report.
The report joins the paper A Dangerous Delay by ECB agencies Oxfam and Save the Children and the Humanitarian Practice Network (HPN) publication System Failure in making the case for an overhaul of the way that early warning data is used and acted upon by humanitarian agencies.
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