A Shadow of Fear: The Situation of IDPs and Returnees in Afgoye

Farhia Mohamud Afgoye district is 30 kilometers from Mogadishu’s capital; Southwest state’s interim capital, Baidoa, is 196 kilometers away from Afgoye. This distance creates a void in establishing a durable solutions unit and implementing those plans in Afgoye because of the security concerns present in the town. Therefore, the burden of receiving IDPs and returnees

Person herding goats in Turkana county in Kenya

Resilience in Action: Local practices and development/humanitarian policies: A review of resilience in the drylands of Turkana

Greta Semplici This rapid review investigates the adoption of ideas of resilience by the development and humanitarian sector. It compares practices of resilience, emerging from fieldwork with Turkana herders in northern Kenya, with an analysis of resilience policies and shows how resilience is understood programmatically and translated into design, implementation and evaluation phases by development

Man on a computer in a cyber cafe in Somalia

Information and communication technologies and mobility in the Horn of Africa: a review of the literature

Peter Chonka and Yidnekachew Haile This review examines how Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) affect intentions and behaviours relating to mobility within the Horn of Africa (HoA). A recent review of literature conducted by the Research and Evidence Facility (REF) – a project of the European Union Emergency Trust Fund (EUTF) for Africa (HoA Window)