EARLY WARNING EARLY ACTION

Failed State Large scale Terrorism Droughts, floods and other natural hazards in acute food insecurity 2.3 Million in food insecurity 1,012,960 IDPs

Multi-year programme Multi-sector: 4 sectors of interventions Community Resilience, WASH, Shelter, Food Security and livelihoods Community-based resilience building BRCiS in a nutshell

And also Launched in November 2013 (end date October 2017), five members (NRC, SCI, CWW, CESVI and IRC) 98 communities involved throughout 7 regions and 21 districts (in South Central Somalia) 30,100 households or 210,700 individual beneficiaries plus 50,133 households or 350,933 individual beneficiaries targeted through emergency response – 50% women

Building Resilience DEVELOPMENT RELIEF EMERGENCY

Building Resilience Recurrent threats (climate or conflict related) COMPLEX SYSTEM COMPREHENSIVE ANSWER Structural vulnerabilities Short-term emergencies EWS / EAS

Linking Early Warning, Early Action and Resilience OPERATIVE PILLAR (IRF) COMMUNITY LEVEL EWS SUPPORT COMMUNITIES’ ABSORPTION CAPACITIES

Funding mechanism designed to provide targeted and timely responses at local level before the consequences of the crisis start destabilizing the livelihood of the communities The Internal Relief Facility BRCiS Crisis Modifier

IRF IN PRACTICE Based on the FNSAU / HCT triggers 5 sectors of intervention: health, WASH, nutrition, Shelter / NFIs, emergency food security and livelihood.

FSNAU / HCT INDICATORS List of Key Indicators Selected Key Indicator SetSpecific Indicators 1.Climate  Rainfall  Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI)  Tropical storm alerts  El Nino/La Nina Outlook  Price of water 2.Population Movement  Number of displaced population 3. Nutrition  Trends in admission to feeding and MCH Centres  Trends in acute malnutrition from health facilities  Trends in acute watery diarrhoea (AWD) 4. Health  Measles outbreak  Acute Watery Diarrhoea (AWD) outbreak  Polio outbreak 5. Market  Maize prices  Sorghum prices  Local goat prices  Wage labour  Terms of trade (wage labour to cereals)  Terms of trade (local quality goat to cereals)

Communities Provide information DFID/BRCiS IRF Decision making DFID/BRCiS IRF Decision making BRCiS Triggers collection and analysis Planning BRCiS Triggers collection and analysis Planning Early Action activation time reduced from 21 to 7 days Early Warning System Information shared with external stakeholders The Internal Relief Facility Activation Mechanism

IRF, FROM THEORY TO PRACTICE South Central: 314,953 beneficiaries (89%) with health, WASH, nutrition and EFSL Bari and Nugaal: 35,260 beneficiaries (11%) with health, WASH, nutrition and EFSL Berbera: 720 beneficiaries (0.25%) with nutrition and cash transfer

Community based EWS By and For the Communities Build community capacity to monitor variables and anticipate shocks Provide a structure for information sharing at community level and between communities Improve community preparedness Foster a risk-prevention attitude and support the absorptive, adaptive and transformative capacities of the community. Ownership + Sustainability Ownership + Sustainability

Community-based EWS In Process 1 Participatory identification of key variables 2 Establishment of community Early Warning committees 3 Selection of technology platform to be adopted (e.g. mobile SMS technology) and training of selected community members 4 Testing of the community-based early warning system

Communities monitor their own context- adapted triggers Information is shared They prepare and implement their response at community level Communities monitor their own context- adapted triggers Information is shared They prepare and implement their response at community level BRCiS Builds Capacities, provides support BRCiS Builds Capacities, provides support Information shared with external stakeholders Community based EWS By and For the Communities