SHARE: Supporting Horn of Africa Resilience

This Staff Working Document analyses the causes of sustained food insecurity in the Horn of Africa, and describes on-going EU interventions (humanitarian, development, stability, sustainable production systems, management of natural resources, etc.). The paper has benefited from regular joint (humanitarian-development) consultations which have assisted in developing a common view of the issues, as well as a newly-developed "joint humanitarian development framework" which guided the analytical work.

This paper may serve as background to future work on supporting Horn of Africa resilience (SHARE), involving EU short-term contributions to recovery and rehabilitation from the 2011 drought as well as consideration of priority themes and sectors for longer term interventions in the region, involving improved coordination. This Staff Working Document focuses on the regions (states and part of states) of the countries of the InterGouvernmental Authority on Development (IGAD)2 in the Horn of Africa in so far as they are susceptible to droughts and emergencies.