Climate emergency

“Many families marry their daughters off at the age of 10”: Supporting women through the impacts of natural hazards in Afghanistan

Case studies of the drought in Faryab, the flood in Baglan, and the earthquake in Herat.

• Research and Studies

Heat as humanitarian crisis: What local organisations are doing

Special issue of Southasiadisasters.net on one of the fastest-growing humanitarian threats of our time—extreme heat.

• Research and Studies

Impact evaluation of resilience interventions on food security, livelihoods and women empowerment in Rwanda

This impact evaluation of WFP's SMART programme assessed community resilience building stronger soil and water management asset base, livelihood strengthening and diversification, farmer organization capacity strengthening and access to inputs and markets, and social cohesion and gender transformation activities.

• Evaluations and Lessons Learned

The inconvenient truths of water development in the drylands of the Horn of Africa: how to use new water sources to support resilience for pastoralists

This brief explores how to best manage risks associated with permanent water supplies in arid and semi-arid lands in the Horn of Africa.

• Research and Studies

Transforming pastoral livelihoods through market interventions: does the impact match expectations? Lessons from a decade of investments in Somali Region, Ethiopia

This report identifies lessons about the development model and theory of change, and its appropriateness for pastoral economies.

• Evaluations and Lessons Learned

Parametric insurance solutions for all

• Research and Studies

Parametric insurance solutions for all [Webinar]

• Research and Studies

Rethinking what works: Embedding systems thinking in evaluations of environment and climate crisis

• Evaluations and Lessons Learned

Weathering change: Exploring connections between climate adaptation and conflict prevention in Mali

This Mercy Corps report finds that climate adaptation and conflict prevention are interconnected, and that integrating interventions across sectors can foster more peaceful, cohesive, and resilient communities in fragile, climate-affected contexts.

• Research and Studies

Urgency of urban heat adaptation

• Research and Studies

Healthy debt on a healthy planet: Towards a virtuous circle of sovereign debt, nature and climate resilience

• Research and Studies

Harnessing collective knowledge: Advancing adaptation research and action through tracking, learning, and sharing around extreme heat [Webinar]

• Research and Studies

Harnessing collective knowledge: Advancing adaptation research and action through tracking, learning, and sharing around extreme heat

• Research and Studies

How mutual aid strengthened Greater Uki's community resilience (2019 - 2022)

This report considers the forms and characteristics and dynamics of mutual aid and the relationship between mutual aid and official responses

• Research and Studies

Comment l'entraide a renforcé la résilience communautaire du Greater Uki (2019 - 2022)

Ce rapport examine les formes, les caractéristiques et la dynamique de l'entraide, ainsi que la relation entre l'entraide et les réponses officielles, dans le Greater Uki, en Australie.

• Research and Studies

'On ne peut pas rester le bras croisés': Pratiques ambivalentes de l'(en)traide lors des inondations de 2022 à N'Djamena

Etude de cas Entraide lors des inondations au Tchad

• Research and Studies

Impact evaluation of anticipatory action in Nepal

This impact evaluation produces rigorous evidence to understand the impact of initiating anticipatory humanitarian assistance around a severe flooding event on food security, coping, psychological well-being, and livelihood outcomes in Nepal.

• Evaluations and Lessons Learned

Does resilience-building last when projects end? Retrospective lessons from projects to support pastoralists in Turkana, Kenya

This retrospective study examines the longer-term impacts of three interventions in Turkana, Kenya, six years after a project ended.

• Evaluations and Lessons Learned

What happened when resilience-building projects closed: Stories of change from Chad

Retrospective learning and resilience-building in Chad – what happened five years after a project introduced climate-smart agriculture?

• Evaluations and Lessons Learned

Feeling the heat: How humanitarians should respond to rising temperatures

This DEC and LSE report examines the role of extreme heat in driving new and exacerbating existing humanitarian need.

• Research and Studies