This Network Paper examines how one project tried to ask the same questions again, its successes and failures and its attempt at a fresh explanation of the fact that so many apparently simple problems have proved so intractable.

This Network Paper examines how one project tried to ask the same questions again, its successes and failures and its attempt at a fresh explanation of the fact that so many apparently simple problems have proved so intractable. It sets out three ideas for moving forward.

A new framework for thinking about (and doing) livelihoods programming and contingency planning.

A new way of thinking about (and improving) preparedness.

A new conceptual framework for thinking about the response system as a whole.

The lessons documented here grow out of work in pastoral areas in the Horn, but none of them relates specifically to pastoral areas, nor do they apply only to the Horn of Africa.

They have wide applicability wherever people are thinking about how to support fragile livelihoods during crises.

Available in English

• Organisation: HPN
• Pages: 32
• Année de publication: 2011
• Droit d'auteur: © Overseas Development Institute, London, 2011.
• Url: http://odihpn.org/resources/system-failure-revisiting-the-problems-of-timely-response-to-crises-in-the-horn-of-africa/