A presentation prepared by Kate Longley.

1. Who Needs Research on Drivers of Change?A ‘crisis’ perspective Presented by Kate Longley (ICRISAT / Overseas Development Institute) at the Workshop on Dealing with Drivers of Rapid Change in Africa: Integration of Lessons from Long-term Research on INRM, ILRI, Nairobi, June 12-13, 2008

3. Collapse of pastoral coping mechanisms in Djibouti

4. Peste des Petit Ruminants (PPR) in Kenya, spreading to Uganda & Somalia

6. Crisis negatively impacts on people’s coping capacity

7. Short-term emergency aid potentially undermines resilience and fails to address underlying causes of crises

9. 10.8 million are directly affected by conflict and political instability at present

10. Overall: 1 in every 12 people are affected by crisis in ESA region

12. To understand the impacts of aid on these systems

13. To enhance food security in high stress / unstable situations through improving interventions before, during and after crisis

14. To work with implementing agencies to improve emergency preparedness, mitigation, relief, recovery and rehabilitation

16. To identify the key drivers behind decreased resilience

17. To identify ways of enhancing coping strategies, resilience and mitigation to stresses

19. To identify adaptation measures that have helped communities to cope with extreme events and other change processes

20. To identify technologies, institutional and policy processes to be promoted as part of Disaster Risk Reduction measures

21. To help identify tools and approaches (from INRM) through which relief and developmental interventions can be better integrated