| Early Warning System | Signals |
| Communities involvement in many social gatherings and ceremonies e.g. marriages | Drought |
| Elders observing intestines of a goat | Dry or bad season |
| Livestock disease outbreak; increase of animal pests | Drought |
| Abnormal increase of twin births (goats/shoats) | Drought |
| Young goat continuously placing the foreleg on the head | Drought |