Climate emergency

Explain: The climate crisis and humanitarian action

• Research and Studies

Anticipatory action to manage climate risks: Lessons from the Red Cross Red Crescent in Southern Africa, Bangladesh, and beyond

This study identifies common benefits and challenges associated with anticipatory action programs.

• Research and Studies

Impact Evaluation for Resilience Learning in South Sudan - Inception report

• Evaluations and Lessons Learned

Pakistan floods appeal: 6 month report

• Research and Studies

Coping with the drought crisis in Somalia: Formative research findings from the Resilience Population Measurement (RPM) project

This formative research aimed to explore what effective coping means in the context of the current drought, how are households relied on social networks to cope and what the main psychosocial determinants of household resilience were against shocks.

• Research and Studies

Inequality: Global trends

The 2023 inequality factsheet highlights how global crises have deepened disparities and reinforced poverty links. It calls for stronger evidence and more effective finance to address inequality in all its dimensions.

• Research and Studies

Still too important to fail: Addressing the humanitarian financing gap in an era of escalating climate impacts

As climate and conflict drive humanitarian needs to record levels, this paper explores why funding continues to fall short and what must change.

• Research and Studies

Building Back Greener: Environmental Accountability in the Post-Pandemic Context

• Research and Studies

Developing a theory of change for drought early actions

This webinar presents current approaches, challenges and lessons learnt on drought along the different stages of the Early Action Protocol (EAP) development.

• Guidance and Tools

A Sphere Unpacked Guide: Nature-based Solutions for Climate Resilience in Humanitarian Action

• Guidance and Tools

Addressing compounded crises in Belize: How a flexible approach cushioned vulnerable communities against shocks.

This brief provides an overview of how the government of Belize, with support from the World Bank and the Global Facility for Disaster Reduction and Recovery (GFDRR), addressed the urgent needs of vulnerable households and small farmers that were exacerbated by the COVID-19 pandemic.

• Research and Studies

Evaluation rétrospective de la réponse de l'UNICEF à la crise de la sécheresse de niveau L2 dans le sud de Madagascar de mi-juillet 2021 à mi-juillet 2022

Tonga: Disaster Management Reference Handbook 2023

• Research and Studies

The vicious cycle: Connections between the debt crisis and climate crisis

• Research and Studies

Addressing the mental health needs of those affected by the earthquakes in Türkiye

• Research and Studies

How much aid actually reaches the countries with the greatest poverty?

This report unpacks critical trends in Official Development Assistance (ODA) to understand what is left to be invested in countries with the greatest poverty, suggests ways to strengthen the core value of aid in targeting poverty reduction and proposes a set of principles for ODA allocation that put poverty at its core.

• Research and Studies

2023 Water Funding Gap Report

• Research and Studies

Disaster risk reduction in West Africa and the Sahelian region: A review of progress

This report is an assessment of progress at the regional level and in Burkina Faso, Chad, Mali, Mauritania, Niger, Nigeria and Senegal against the ‘African Union Programme of Action for the Implementation of the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction 2015-2030 in Africa’.

• Research and Studies

Scenarios for a 1% gross national income (GNI) external public finance target

This paper investigates the feasibility of a combined development and climate-finance target funded by additional investment from high-income countries worth 1% of their GNI.

• Research and Studies

The evolution of devolution: Considerations for scaling local participatory planning in Kenya

Mercy Corps’ research in Turkana, Isiolo, and Garissa shows that ward-level participatory planning (via Ward Development Planning) fills governance gaps by bringing grassroots knowledge into budgeting, empowering local communities, and improving representation.

• Research and Studies