Climate emergency

The health risks of extreme heat

Lessons from Hagibis: Learning to cope with intensifying disasters in the age of the New Normal

This report examines some of issues in the Hagibis flood response and summarizes the lessons that can contribute to better preparedness for future disasters.

• Evaluations and Lessons Learned

What the world’s response to coronavirus can teach us about tackling the climate emergency

• Commentaries

Basis Risk in Disaster Risk Financing for Humanitarian Action Potential Approaches to Measuring, Monitoring, and Managing it

• Research and Studies

Final evaluation of "Support to the implementation of the Amazon ecosystem-based conservation vision to the benefit of local communities and the preservation of ecosystem services in the Amazon region"

• Evaluations and Lessons Learned

Final evaluation of ''Demonstration project for the decontamination of Persistent Organic Pesticides contaminated soils using non-thermal treatment methods''

• Evaluations and Lessons Learned

Terminal evaluation of the project “Decision support for mainstreaming and scaling up of sustainable land management”

• Evaluations and Lessons Learned

Inter-Agency Humanitarian Evaluation of the drought response in Ethiopia 2015 - 2018

The evaluation assesses the relevance (reflecting the needs and priorities of people affected by the droughts), effectiveness, sustainability (resilience building), adequacy of building partnerships and involving local capacities, and coordination during the Ethiopia drought response.

• Evaluations and Lessons Learned

Evaluation of FAO’s Asia Regional Integrated Pest Management and Pesticide Risk Reduction Programme in the Greater Mekong Subregion

• Evaluations and Lessons Learned

Looking Through an Environmental Lens - Implications and Opportunities for Cash Transfer Programming in Humanitarian Response (link only)

• Research and Studies

Breaking Cycles of Risk Accumulation in African Cities (UN Habitat)

• Research and Studies

Pathways to peace: Addressing conflict and strengthening stability in a changing climate

This report critically assesses how peacebuilding programming can also produce adaptation benefits (and vice versa), so that interventions simultaneously contribute to reduced intercommunal conflict and strengthened resilience to a range of shocks and stresses.

• Evaluations and Lessons Learned

Women's economic empowerment and equality in solid waste management and recycling: global landscape

Women's economic empowerment and equality in solid waste management and recycling: Latin America and the Caribbean landscape

Twin peaks: the seasonality of acute malnutrition, conflict, and environmental factors

• Research and Studies

Scoping study on public-private development partnerships in the renewable energy sector

• Research and Studies

Evaluation of FAO’s contribution to building resilience to El Niño-induced drought in Southern Africa 2016-2017

This evaluation calls on FAO to initiate a systematic approach to adaptive programming, to conduct an in-depth analysis of the factors that slowed delivery in Southern Africa, to expand on the targeting of different groups and to bolster learning, information-sharing and advocacy efforts across countries.

• Evaluations and Lessons Learned

International Search and Rescue Advisory Group (INSARAG) Guidelines, Volume III: Field Operational Guide

• Guidance and Tools

Greening the Blue Report. The UN System’s Environmental Footprint and Efforts to Reduce It

• Research and Studies

Environmental Impact Toolkit

• Guidance and Tools