Innovation

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  1 November 2025 / Supporting Pastoralism and Agriculture in Recurrent and Protracted Crises (SPARC)

  Dynamic livelihoods in conflict and recurrent crises: Stories of change from Ethiopia and South Sudan

  Examines change within people’s livelihoods, the conditions that allow change to occur and spread, and the barriers which prevent change from spreading.

  • Research and Studies
• Short read

  1 November 2025 / Supporting Pastoralism and Agriculture in Recurrent and Protracted Crises (SPARC)

  Juxtaposition of women’s economic empowerment and innovation: is one a pathway to the other?

  This report explores ways in which economically empowered pastoralist women initiate and or adopt innovations in Somaliland.

  • Research and Studies
• Data viz

  26 October 2025 / Environmental and Public Health International (EPHI)

  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
• Audio

  15 October 2025 / Humanitarian Leadership Academy

  Localising AI solutions: Practitioner experiences from Rwanda

  In this episode, Deogratius Kiggudde explores how Rwanda’s innovation ecosystem offers practical lessons for the humanitarian sector

  • Commentaries
• Short read

  15 October 2025 / Mercy Corps

  Cash assistance: How design influences value for money

  This document presents a short version of the Value for Money (VfM) guidance utilised at Mercy Corps.

  • Guidance and Tools
• Audio

  8 October 2025 / Humanitarian Leadership Academy

  Building inclusive AI: Indigenous knowledge frameworks from Kenya and beyond

  In this episode, Wakanyi Hoffman joins Ka Man Parkinson to explore how Ubuntu philosophy, African storytelling, and community wisdom can reshape AI.

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  7 October 2025 / Islamic Relief

  Final evaluation of the DEC Turkiye-Syria earthquake appeal

  This final evaluation assesses the performance and quality of IR’s earthquake response across Phase 1 and 2, using OECD DAC criteria.

  • Evaluations and Lessons Learned
• Audio

  2 October 2025 / Humanitarian Leadership Academy

  Addressing governance gaps: Perspectives from Nigeria and beyond

  In this episode, Timi Olagunju unpacks the AI governance gap in humanitarian work and practical steps toward accountable, community-centered AI use.

  • Commentaries
• Short read

  1 October 2025 / Centre for Humanitarian Leadership

  When the system cannot hold: Designing an antifragile humanitarianism

  Written from the perspective of a humanitarian practitioner, this paper argues that current structures repeatedly fail under volatility, and proposes four design principles for an antifragile humanitarian system.

  • Research and Studies
• Audio

  16 September 2025 / Humanitarian Leadership Academy

  How are humanitarians using AI? Reflections on our community-centred research approach

  This podcast explores how humanitarian organizations can build AI literacy by turning community engagement into evidence, helping the sector move from curiosity to readiness

  • Commentaries
• Short read

  4 September 2025 / Transitions Research

  Grounding success of heat adaptation: Learning what heat adaptation success means to communities

  This note compiles insights from workshops and conversations in the Global South on what works in extreme heat adaptation efforts.

  • Research and Studies
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  2 September 2025 / Mercy Corps

  Value for money digest: Transition to livelihood opportunities in Kenya, Uganda, and Nigeria

  This document presents an extract of a Value for Money (VfM) analysis conducted for a transition to livelihood opportunities intervention in Kenya, Uganda and Nigeria, implemented from October 2020 and December 2023.

  • Research and Studies
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  31 August 2025 / Centre for Humanitarian Action (CHA)

  Synthèse: Innovation, efficacité et principes dans la balance de l’action humanitaire

  The report explores the complex space where humanitarian innovation in artificial intelligence balances opportunity and risk, performance and principles.

  • Research and Studies
• Short read

  31 August 2025 / Centre for Humanitarian Action (CHA)

  Humanitäre Innovation zwischen Effizienz und Prinzipientreue

  The report explores the complex space where humanitarian innovation in artificial intelligence balances opportunity and risk, performance and principles.

  • Research and Studies
• Long read

  31 August 2025 / Centre for Humanitarian Action (CHA)

  Balancing innovation, efficiency, and principled humanitarian action

  The report explores the complex space where humanitarian innovation in artificial intelligence balances opportunity and risk, performance and principles.

  • Research and Studies
• Short read

  31 July 2025 / ALNAP

  Explain: Accountability to affected populations - Putting people at the centre | Quick read

  Quick read version of ALNAP's Explain briefing on accountability to affected populations.

  • Research and Studies
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  17 July 2025 / Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO)

  Programme assessment of FAO's Ukraine emergency response 2022-2024

  This report provides an overview of the context and the FAO programme in Ukraine and presents the main results of FAO’s emergency work in between 2022-2024, as well as key lessons.

  • Evaluations and Lessons Learned
• Short read

  7 July 2025 / Centre for Humanitarian Action (CHA)

  Executive summary: Vorausschauend handeln - Humanitärer Hilfe gerecht verteilen im Zeitalter des Klimawandels

  Can anticipatory action help solve the problem of humanitarian climate crisis? Iida-Maria Tammi analyses the implications of the 'anticipatory turn'.

  • Research and Studies
• Short read

  7 July 2025 / Centre for Humanitarian Action (CHA)

  Synthèse: Le tournant de l’anticipation - Distribuer l’aide humanitaire à l’ère du changement climatique

  Can anticipatory action help solve the problem of humanitarian climate crisis? Iida-Maria Tammi analyses the implications of the 'anticipatory turn'.

  • Research and Studies
• Long read

  7 July 2025 / Centre for Humanitarian Action (CHA)

  The anticipatory turn: Distributing aid in the age of climate change

  Can anticipatory action help solve the problem of humanitarian climate crisis? Iida-Maria Tammi analyses the implications of the 'anticipatory turn'.

  • Research and Studies