; (5) commends USAID for its work to date to mitigate the impact of environmental shocks to pastoralist communities across the Horn of Africa, and calls on the Department of State and USAID to continue providing robust, long-term development supporting programs that build resilience, protect livelihoods, and strengthen global food security through programs such as USAID’s Office of Food for Peace and Bureau for Food Security, as well as programs to provide drought relief and emergency food assistance implemented by the World Food Program (WFP), Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), United Nations International Children’s Emergency Fund (UNICEF), and nongovernmental organizations, including faith-based and non-faith-based organizations; (6) calls on the President to appoint high-level officials able to engage the international community in joining the United States to respond to this crisis, including an Administrator for USAID, a Director for the Office of Foreign Disaster Assistance, an Assistant USAID Administrator for Africa, and an Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs; (7) urges the Government of Kenya to publicly declare that the Dadaab refugee complex will remain open, respect prima facie status for new arrivals from Somalia, and work with the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees in Kenya to restart the registration of refugees, including from Somalia, at their points of entry, re-establish fair, transparent, and effective asylum procedures across the country, and put in place robust border protection monitoring to track humanitarian indicators inside Somalia and assess the needs of new arrivals; and (8) calls on the United States Government and the international community, including international, national, and local NGOs, to continue life-saving assistance and development activities in order to alleviate drought and food insecurity in the region to avert the catastrophic consequences of drought in the Horn of Africa.