Early warning

This template tool on early warning mechanisms forms part of the Resource Pack on Community-Based Protection. The document discusses the topics early warning, information sharing, material support, protection analysis and risk analysis.

This is a case study produced by César Ngango Lumoo, Head of the Protection Programme at Solidarité pour la Promotion sociale et la Paix (SOPROP), as part of the Resource Pack on Community-Based Protection. The document discusses early warning, information sharing, material support, negative coping strategies, protection analysis and self-protection outside of community protection structures.

More than three years after it was initiated in the aftermath of the 2011 famine, the early-warning, early-action trigger mechanism for Somalia remains a work in progress. This paper looks at how the mechanism has functioned during the 2016/7 drought crisis response, uncovers a widespread consensus about the value of the tool, and explores the […]