Disasters, Journal Year: 2025, Volume and Issue: 49(3)

Published: May 13, 2025

Abstract Droughts are a primary driver of humanitarian crises in arid regions, yet early warning systems that index financing often omit water security data favour food monitoring. Based on 42 expert interviews assessing management barriers and information needs during the 2020–24 drought Horn Africa, resulting an estimated 71,100 excess deaths Somalia alone, we find to be critical shifting proactive mechanisms. Monitoring availability (such as quality groundwater/surface levels) access prices household surveys) is needed design solutions proactively mitigate shortages their secondary impacts through borehole rehabilitation, alternative supplies, cash transfers). Furthermore, if causal relations between insecurity analysed, cost–benefit basis for supply interventions can more completely propositioned, hotspots better anticipated.

Language: Английский