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    Learning the Lessons? Assessing the response to the 2012 food crisis in the Sahel to build resilience for the future

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    Author(s)
    Ford, Elise
    Publication date
    2013-04-16
    Subject
    Aid
    Conflict and disasters
    Food and livelihoods
    Keywords
    Aid effectiveness
    Civil society
    Drought
    Food prices
    Food security
    Resilience
    Disaster risk reduction
    DRR
    Disasters
    Country
    Burkina Faso
    Chad
    Mali
    Mauritania
    Niger
    
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    Oxfam International
    Document type
    Briefing paper
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    In 2012, the Sahel region of West and Central Africa was once again hit by a severe food crisis, affecting over 18 million people at its peak. At the start of 2012, when the crisis began to unfold, many governments, donors and aid agencies were determined not to make the same mistakes again. This report considers how well they collectively performed, and the lessons that must be learned to improve future responses.

    The analysis reveals that, although the 2012 response was bigger and, in many respects, better than responses to previous crises, there were still significant shortcomings that need to be addressed. Technical, financial and political barriers prevented governments from effectively leading the response. Diverging messages on the likely severity of the crisis led to paralysis and unnecessary delays in mobilizing a response. Donor funding was no more timely than before. As a result, millions of people still did not get the help they needed.

    Change can and must be achieved. 2013 provides a critical opportunity for a breakthrough. The first priority is to recognise that the crisis is not over: as of April 5, the UN appeal for 2013 was just 24 per cent funded. The international community will continue to fail people unless it takes urgent action to deliver aid that is swift, sufficient and sustained. Secondly, all of those involved commit to getting better at preventing and managing future crises. The concept of resilience offers potential to do this, but only if it looks beyond the immediate causes of recurrent crises.

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    40
    ISBN
    978-1-78077-282-0
    URI
    http://hdl.handle.net/10546/281076
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