Resilience-building in the Afar National Regional State, Ethiopia
This technical brief was produced by the USAID Ethiopia Agriculture Knowledge, Learning, Documentation and Policy (AKLDP) project in Ethiopia. The brief considers the impacts of a deep and prolonged La Niña episode of 2011 which resulted in a severe food security and nutrition crisis that affected the lives and livelihoods of more than 12.5 million people living in the Horn of Africa. The brief notes that while the drought episode was better managed in Ethiopia and Kenya, the cost of the humanitarian response resulted in widespread recognition amongst national governments, the Inter-Governmental Authority on Development (IGAD), international development partners and the humanitarian community of the need to do things differently. Specifically, it was recognized that more needed to be known about the underlying and structural causes of drought-related crises and that humanitarian and development tools needed to be overhauled if improvements in poverty reduction and nutrition were to be sustained.
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