The famine in the Horn of Africa is being seen as an inevitable consequence of drought, "the worst for 60 years". But this famine was almost entirely preventable, and presenting it as a natural disaster doesn't help; nor does our insistence on waiting for a major crisis before responding.
Donors might justify waiting to see if a crisis really will materialise, to ensure best use of limited funds, but this is false logic. Currently, the attitude of responsibility and accountability doesn't exist. At the end of the day, no one is responsible. No one is going to lose their job over this famine. So how do you get system accountability when you have got multiple organisations with different mandates, different priorities, responding to different political constituencies?
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