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    Is it time to devise a faster response to slow onset disasters?

    Even when triggers and warning mechanisms are geared toward slow onset disasters, the donor and aid community are often not responding fast enough. Experts tell Devex it’s either time to bolster drought indicators and better define action tied to early warning systems, or rethink aid frameworks altogether.

    By Kelli Rogers // 05 January 2017

    Drought alarm bells began to ring in Somalia in early November 2016.

    By late November, the Somalia NGO Consortium published a clear statement about what they saw happening in the African country — namely that Somalia went through a strikingly similar situation in 2011, when “two failed rain seasons, overlapping shocks, restricted action and a late response resulted in large-scale human catastrophe.”

    The indicators now — such as poor and erratic rain since late September, low rate of water availability, high rate of livestock loss and dependence on uncovered water sources — “are the same indicators that we had in 2010” and present a similarly crucial opportunity to respond early before conditions reach famine levels, InterAction Director of Humanitarian Practice Julien Schopp told Devex.

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      Kelli Rogers has worked as an Associate Editor and Southeast Asia Correspondent for Devex, with a particular focus on gender. Prior to that, she reported on social and environmental issues from Nairobi, Kenya. Kelli holds a bachelor’s degree in journalism from the University of Missouri, and has reported from more than 20 countries.

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