Climate emergency

How Is Disaster Aid Being Retooled to Meet Catastrophes That Strike Cities?

• Research and Studies

Rules of the Range: Natural Resources Management in Kenya–Ethiopia Border Areas

• Research and Studies

Intense Climate-Related Natural Disasters in Asia and the Pacific

• Research and Studies

Improvement of agricultural practices aimed at enhancing economic security through sustainable management of water resources and environmental sanitation in war affected areas for vulnerable populations

Base line scenarios for urban development of selected case study areas

• Research and Studies

Guidelines for reliability analysis of roadway network including procedures for emergency response management

• Guidance and Tools

The political underpinnings of cities’ accumulated resilience to climate change

• Research and Studies

Water in the West Bank

• Research and Studies

International evidence of the ecosystem services of urban green infrastructure in different climate zones

• Research and Studies

IASC Real Time Evaluation (IASC RTE) of the Humanitarian Response to the Horn of Africa Drought Crisis - Ethiopia

This real time evaluation (RTE) is one of four commissioned by the Inter-Agency Standing Committee (IASC), looking at the response to the Horn of Africa drought and food security crisis.

• Evaluations and Lessons Learned

From conflict to coping: Evidence from Southern Ethiopia on the contributions of peacebuilding to drought resilience among pastoralist groups

Mercy Corps' research into the links between conflict and drought resilience within the context of its programs in Southern Ethiopia provides strong evidence of the contributions of peacebuilding programming to pastoralists’ abilities to productively cope with and adapt to drought.

• Research and Studies

Financing water and sanitation for the poor: six key solutions

• Research and Studies

Humanitarian Exchange 53: The Crisis in the Horn of Africa

• Research and Studies

Impact of Conflict on Pastoral Communities' Resilience in the Horn of Africa: Case Studies from Ethiopia, Kenya and Uganda

• Research and Studies

A Workbook on Planning for Urban Resilience in the Face of Disasters: Adapting Experiences from Vietnam's Cities to Other Cities

• Guidance and Tools

A Dangerous Delay: The cost of late response to early warnings in the 2011 drought in the Horn of Africa

This briefing examines the factors that allowed a drought in the Horn of Africa to develop into a full-scale crisis of hunger and livelihoods in 2011.

• Research and Studies

A creeping crisis: The neglect of education in slow-onset emergencies

This report focuses on the role and importance of education in mitigating the impact of droughts in east Africa and west Africa. Its recommendations are relevant both to those crises and to other countries likely to face slow-onset emergencies in the future.

• Research and Studies

Disasters Emergency Committee - East Africa Crisis Appeal Kenya Real-Time Evaluation Report

• Evaluations and Lessons Learned

Disasters Emergency Committee's (DEC) - East Africa Crisis Appeal Synthesis Report

• Research and Studies

Climate Change, Disaster Risk and the Urban Poor

• Research and Studies