Climate emergency

Filling the gap: Addressing climate-driven crises in Pakistan

The 2022 floods left one in seven Pakistanis affected, exposing how current funding systems fail the most vulnerable. This briefing calls for a more reliable, climate‑just response that links relief, recovery, and resilience.

• Research and Studies

Climate finance: Accounting and accountability

This briefing provides an overview of some of the biggest problems with existing climate finance data to highlight what needs to change in order to reach the next target.

• Research and Studies

Forewarned, but not Forearmed? Lessons for the Recent Floods in Pakistan from 2010

• Evaluations and Lessons Learned

A dry horizon: Iraq’s interlinked drought and climate crises

This study assesses how climate change and water scarcity have impacted displacement, incomes, and crop production across households, as well as the Government of Iraq’s response.

• Research and Studies

Mainstreaming environmental sustainability in evaluation

• Research and Studies

Global Recovery and Preparedness for the Pandemic

• Research and Studies

Embracing Discomfort - A Call to Enable Finance for Climate-Change Adaptation in Conflict Settings

• Research and Studies

How earth observation can enable anticipatory action in humanitarian crises

• Research and Studies

INFORM climate change: Quantifying the impacts of climate and socio-economic trends on the risk of future humanitarian crises and disasters

• Research and Studies

Evaluation of Pakistan WFP Country Strategic Plan 2018-2022

Evaluation of Sri Lanka WFP Country Strategic Plan 2018-2022

Evaluation of Ecuador WFP Country Strategic Plan 2017-2021

Climate adaptation investments in conflict-affected states

This paper aims to influence policy-makers in the climate, humanitarian and peace-building communities of practice, as well as country governments that are facing fragile and conflict-affected situations, to re-think the risks and increase financial allocations to the least developed country sub-group of fragile and conflict-affected states that are most vulnerable to the impacts of climate change.

• Research and Studies

The changing landscape of cash preparedness: Lists, risks and relationships

This study is designed to help CVA actors to review their existing CVA preparedness with a view to supporting further scale-up when and where that is needed.

• Research and Studies

TREADING GENTLY: BUILDING ON POSITIVE ENVIRONMENTAL PRACTICE IN THE TONGA VOLCANO RESPONSE

• Research and Studies

GREENING THE SYSTEM: A VISION FOR A GREEN HUMANITARIAN FUTURE

• Research and Studies

Community-based Early Warning Early Action (EWEA) in the Pacific: Findings from Tuvalu

This research explored opportunities for strengthening EWEA in the Pacific, focusing on understanding local practices at the community level, capturing evidence on impacts as well as response mechanisms and identifying ways to strengthen and build on these models.

• Research and Studies

The Climate and Environmental Charter for Humanitarian Organizations

An Evaluation of the Impact of the Logistics Cluster Training Programme: Humanitarian Response to Tropical Cyclones Idai and Kenneth in Mozambique 2019

• Evaluations and Lessons Learned

Living with climate-related hazards: Impacts and community responses among refugees and hosts in Nyumanzi settlement (Adjumani, Uganda)

This report examines climate change response strategies in the refugee and host communities of Nyumanzi settlement.

• Research and Studies