Innovation

Reckoning and renewal: A future-ready humanitarian system

• Research and Studies

Transforming pastoral livelihoods through market interventions: does the impact match expectations? Lessons from a decade of investments in Somali Region, Ethiopia

This report identifies lessons about the development model and theory of change, and its appropriateness for pastoral economies.

• Evaluations and Lessons Learned

The humanitarian research and innovation landscape - 2024 report

This report is an overview of the findings, conclusions, and recommendations of Elrha’s Global Prioritisation Exercise (GPE). The GPE aims to improve outcomes for people affected by crisis and address gaps in knowledge about how humanitarian research and innovation (HRI) operates.

• Research and Studies

The Global Humanitarian Assistance 2025 report launch recording

• Research and Studies

Global Humanitarian Assistance report 2025

• Research and Studies

Global Humanitarian Assistance (GHA) report 2025

• Research and Studies

Strategic roadmap 2025-2027: A hybrid approach to risk-informed and people-centred cash programming in Asia and the Pacific Region

• Guidance and Tools

AI for Social Good Webinar 5: Harness AI for efficient, localised humanitarian action

This webinar, hosted by PoliSync and the CALP Network, explored how AI can strengthen humanitarian response in disaster and conflict settings and highlights the importance of ensuring equitable access for local actors and applying AI in an ethical and responsible way.

• Commentaries

How a nonprofit's AI tool is giving aid workers life-saving answers during humanitarian crises

• Evaluations and Lessons Learned

Value for money digest: Multiple purpose cash assistance in Sudan

This document presents an extract of a Value for Money (VfM) analysis on multipurpose cash assistance (MPCA) interventions in Sudan from July 2024 to March 2025.

• Research and Studies

Future of aid 2040: Pathways to transformation

The ‘Future of Aid 2040’ report involved civil society from the Global South in reimagining the very foundations of the ‘aid’ system.

• Research and Studies

Aid sector in transition: Challenges, ethics and adaptation

This latest Practice Paper by CWSA unpacks real time impacts of the shifting aid landscape across the Global South

• Research and Studies

تقر ر موجز عن تقييم حالات الطوارئ على ال ستوى ال ؤسس لاستجابة البرنامج ف أوكراني ا

The evaluation assessed WFP’s efforts to meet the needs of the most food-insecure people and its adherence to humanitarian principles; its strategic positioning in the humanitarian landscape; its contribution to the emergency response; and its efficiency in implementation.

• Evaluations and Lessons Learned

Informe resumido de la evaluación de la intervención de emergencia coordinada a nivel central realizada por el PMA en Ucrania

The evaluation assessed WFP’s efforts to meet the needs of the most food-insecure people and its adherence to humanitarian principles; its strategic positioning in the humanitarian landscape; its contribution to the emergency response; and its efficiency in implementation.

• Evaluations and Lessons Learned

Rapport succinct de l’évaluation de l’intervention d’urgence majeure coordonnée au niveau central menée par le PAM en Ukraine

The evaluation assessed WFP’s efforts to meet the needs of the most food-insecure people and its adherence to humanitarian principles; its strategic positioning in the humanitarian landscape; its contribution to the emergency response; and its efficiency in implementation.

• Evaluations and Lessons Learned

Corporate emergency evaluation of WFP’s response in Ukraine

The evaluation assessed WFP’s efforts to meet the needs of the most food-insecure people and its adherence to humanitarian principles; its strategic positioning in the humanitarian landscape; its contribution to the emergency response; and its efficiency in implementation.

• Evaluations and Lessons Learned

Explain: Artificial intelligence in the humanitarian sector | Quick read

Quick read version of ALNAP's Explain briefing exploring the latest thinking and evidence on AI

• Research and Studies

Research to action in Somalia

This webinar discusses the study 'Research to Action in Humanitarian Settings' (R2HC), which tested the effectiveness and cost-effectiveness of Cash Plus interventions on the wasting status of children under five and pregnant and lactating women.

• Research and Studies

Community-driven heat solutions compendium

This compendium contains solutions that have been piloted by communities across the Global South—solutions that are ready to be scaled globally with support from the broader adaptation community.

• Research and Studies

Fit for size: rethinking capacity strengthening in Small Island Developing States (SIDS)

This working paper compares the challenges in SIDS versus larger states - highlighting the innovative governance strategies small states use and strengths that are key to successful capacity strengthening initiatives.

• Research and Studies