Climate emergency

Somalia: Anticipated effects of drought on malnutrition drivers

An analytical report assessing how prolonged drought in Somalia is expected to intensify the drivers of malnutrition, offering forward-looking evidence to inform anticipatory planning and integrated humanitarian response.

• Research and Studies

Deep-rooted causes of farmer–herder conflicts and impact on local food systems: Case studies from Sudan, Nigeria and Mali

This brief aims to understand the root causes and impacts of farmer–herder conflicts through a food production system and political economy lens.

• Research and Studies

From risk to resilience: Grounding innovation in pastoralist realities

This study investigates pastoralists’ perceptions of the risks they face and how this influences adoption of innovations.

• Research and Studies

Food aid, sharing and resilience: the role of collectivity and connectivity in drought affected pastoralist systems in Ethiopia

This brief aims to draw learnings from better understanding if and how pastoralists share food aid, and if and how this affects their ability to cope.

• Research and Studies

Five lessons for supporting resilience in conflicts and recurring crises: evidence from SPARC’s retrospective studies of livelihood support

This brief summarises lessons from case studies in Ethiopia, Kenya, and Chad, revisiting projects three to five years after closure.

• Research and Studies

How to manage crises differently in ASALs without talking about a nexus: What we can learn from the water sector

SPARC research on water development in the drylands reveals how a divide between development thinking and humanitarian action is undermining resilience.

• Research and Studies

Internal midterm review of the Project for Resilience and Enhanced Preparedness and Action (PREPA), Mozambique

The PREPA Project aimed to strengthen climate-resilient livelihoods, disaster risk reduction, climate change adaptation, and health and WASH services in Manica Province.

• Evaluations and Lessons Learned

Green inclusive and resilient Liberian communities: Final project evaluation

Final evaluation of the GIRL prokect aimed to strengthen resilience in 45 communities, focusing on improving access to safe water and sanitation, promoting healthy hygiene behaviors, and enhancing climate-smart agriculture and disaster preparedness through inclusive, community-driven approaches.

• Evaluations and Lessons Learned

Lead service line replacement cost calculator (LSLRCC) tool

A free, multilingual planning tool advancing safe drinking water, equity, and climate-health resilience.

• Guidance and Tools

The role of the Afghan diaspora in mobilising support to emergency and recovery efforts

• Research and Studies

Development on the margins: how to build resilience in fragile places

This episode focuses on the conflict blind spot in development and climate action.

• Research and Studies

Ten ways to create people-centred early warning systems in conflicts and recurrent crises

This policy brief synthesises SPARC’s learning related to early warning systems.

• Research and Studies

Ten ways to reduce disaster risk in conflicts and recurring crises

This policy brief synthesises SPARC’s learning related to DRR in conflicts and recurrent crises.

• Research and Studies

Strengthening resilience through disaster risk reduction and climate change adaptation - Final evaluation report

Final evaluation of a project aimed to build build community resilience through disaster risk reduction, climate change adaptation, and the integration of protection, gender and inclusion, and community engagement and accountability in eight high-risk communities across three Sudanese states.

• Evaluations and Lessons Learned

Women, water, and the future of farming in rural India

Examines the increasing feminization of agriculture, structural inequities and coping strategies in water-scarce areas in India.

• Commentaries

Définitions : critères pour l’évaluation de l’action humanitaire

• Guidance and Tools

Definitions: Criteria for the evaluation of the humanitarian action

• Guidance and Tools

Adapting the OECD criteria for the evaluation of humanitarian action

• Guidance and Tools

Adapting the OECD criteria for the evaluation of humanitarian action

• Evaluations and Lessons Learned
• Guidance and Tools

تكييف معايير منظمة التعاون الاقتصادي والتنمية لتقييم العمل الإنساني

• Guidance and Tools