Climate emergency

Nepal drought response 2025: Lessons, learning and reflection workshop report

This report reviews Nepal’s 2025 drought and cholera crisis in Madhesh Province, capturing lessons from the Nepal Red Cross Society’s first drought response operation.

• Evaluations and Lessons Learned

Ending gender-based violence in disaster risks

This issue examines how disasters, displacement, extreme heat, migration, water scarcity, recovery processes, and climate adaptation can intensify violence against women and girls when protection systems are weak or absent.

• Research and Studies

“We do not wait helplessly”: How communities in Somalia are coping with a “double shock” drought

This report explores how communities enact strategies to navigate the 2025 drought amidst dwindling international humanitarian assistance.

• Research and Studies

Learning from Crises: Responding to droughts

17 lessons highlighting what humanitarian actors should prioritise when anticipating, responding to and supporting recovery from drought.

• Evaluations and Lessons Learned

Responding to droughts

This lessons paper distills 17 top-level lessons from humanitarian responses to droughts between 2012 and 2024. The lessons highlight areas of strong convergence on what humanitarian actors should prioritise when anticipating, responding to and supporting recovery from drought.

• Evaluations and Lessons Learned

Evaluation of the project “Increasing capacities and scale for anticipatory action including through social protection systems”

Evaluation of FAO and DG ECHO's joint project to integrate anticipatory action with social protection systems in Bangladesh, the Lao People’s Democratic Republic, Pakistan, the Philippines and Viet Nam.

• Evaluations and Lessons Learned

Towards a safer and resilient Nagaland: What we do, why we do, and how we learn

This issue explores how disaster resilience is built in Nagaland through integrated systems linking governance, science, finance, and community action.

• Research and Studies

Synthesis and meta-analysis of findings from crisis-specific inter-agency humanitarian evaluations covering the period 2015-2025

The IAHE Synthesis exercise pulls together the findings from seven interagency humanitarian evaluations (IAHEs) covering nine different crisis contexts between 2015 – 2025.

• Evaluations and Lessons Learned

Adaptation des critères de l’OCDE pour l’évaluation de l’action humanitaire

• Guidance and Tools

L'adaptation au changement climatique : vers une transformation structurelle du secteur de l'aide internationale

This study explores whether international aid is truly prepared for the profound changes required to adapt to climate change.

• Research and Studies

Impacts of climate hazards on agriculture in Nyumanzi Settlement – Adjumani District

This brief highlights how extreme heat, drought, and flooding are affecting agricultural livelihoods in Nyumanzi Refugee Settlement.

• Research and Studies

Small heat resilience measures: Big impact in small towns and on small businesses in India

This issue explores how small, low-cost heat resilience actions can help protect health and livelihoods of street vendors, artisans, women workers, and informal businesses.

• Research and Studies

The choice of pragmatism: A critical review of People In Need's greening approach

This report presents the findings of a critical review of the greening approach undertaken by the NGO People in Need (PIN).

• Research and Studies

Rapid livelihoods assessment: Hurricane Melissa St. Elizabeth Parish, Jamaica

To inform both immediate and long-term recovery, CORE conducted this rapid livelihood assessment in St. Elizabeth parish.

• Research and Studies

Indigenous technology of terraces and its hydrological functions for managing agricultural water and addressing multifaceted climate and water-induced disasters

This paper examines the indigenous technology of agricultural terraces as technological components of a broader agroecological system and the underexplored hydrological functions they serve.

• Research and Studies

Global water monitor: 2025 report

The Global water monitor report aims to deliver open, actionable climate and water data.

• Research and Studies

Evaluación del plan estratégico para el país del PMA en Guatemala 2021–2025

This evaluation serves accountability and learning purposes and informs the preparation of the next country strategic plan for WFP in Guatemala.

• Evaluations and Lessons Learned

Lessons from Uganda's earth observation-based disaster risk financing program

This article explores the impact of satellite-based early warning on humanitarian outcomes and government fiscal efficiency.

• Research and Studies

Geohazard-informed rapid planning for disaster relief operations

This applied study focuses on using rapid geohazard observation to inform operational decision-making during flood-related disaster relief, based on major flood events in Sumatra in early 2025.

• Research and Studies

Whenever someone wanted something, everyone helped out. I truly understood the value of community.

This report centres community perceptions in earthquake-affected areas in Mandalay and southern Shan, Myanmar.

• Research and Studies