Final Independent Evaluation of the response to the West African Sahel Food Crisis 2012

Author(s)
Wiater, J. and le Bloas, J.
Publication language
English
Pages
93pp
Date published
30 Jan 2013
Type
Thematic evaluation
Keywords
Capacity development, Coordination, Disasters, Drought, Food security
Countries
Burkina Faso, Chad, Mali, Mauritania, Niger
Organisations
Action Against Hunger

The 2011/2012 Sahel Drought Emergency was large in scale and geographic scope. Within this scenario, ACF did not just mobilise a response in each of the affected Sahelian countries where it has an operational presence (Mauritania, Mali, Niger, Burkina Faso and Chad) but rather did so within a regional strategic framework that sought to align its response as closely as possible to the dynamics that evolve from pro-active anticipation, to actual response, and on to initiatives that would reinforce the resilience of beneficiaries to withstand and mitigate future food security shocks.