Focus topics

Towards a safer and resilient Nagaland: What we do, why we do, and how we learn

This issue explores how disaster resilience is built in Nagaland through integrated systems linking governance, science, finance, and community action.

• Research and Studies

Flagship Initiative Final Report

This final evaluation synthesises activities and learning that emerged from the Flagship Initiative.

• Evaluations and Lessons Learned

Adaptation des critères de l’OCDE pour l’évaluation de l’action humanitaire

• Guidance and Tools

Event recording - Supporting mutual aid: evidence, opportunities and unanswered questions

Recording of ALNAP's launch event for the "Supporting mutual aid" paper.

• Research and Studies

Community-led innovation partnership: Impact report from the Regional Humanitarian Partnership Week (RHPW) 2025

The report offers a summary of the key discussions and outcomes from a dialogue session held in Bangkok in December 2025.

• Commentaries

Humanitarian Aid on the Move N° 27

This issue sheds light on some of the different aspects of the crisis the humanitarian aid sector is going through since early 2025.

• Research and Studies

Rapid livelihoods assessment: Hurricane Melissa St. Elizabeth Parish, Jamaica

To inform both immediate and long-term recovery, CORE conducted this rapid livelihood assessment in St. Elizabeth parish.

• Research and Studies

تقرير موجز عن التقييم الاستراتيجي لنهج البرنامج إزاء الاستهداف وتحديد الأولويات للمساعدات الغذائية والتغذوية

• Evaluations and Lessons Learned

Informe resumido de la evaluación estratégica de los enfoques del PMA en materia de selección de beneficiarios y establecimiento de prioridades para la asistencia alimentaria y nutricional Resumen

Esta evaluación estratégica examinó la pertinencia, adecuación y eficacia de los enfoques del PMA en materia de selección de beneficiarios y establecimiento de prioridades para la asistencia alimentaria y nutricional, en un contexto de necesidades crecientes y recursos menguantes.

• Evaluations and Lessons Learned

Rapport succinct de l’évaluation des approches suivies par le PAM en matière de ciblage et d’établissement des priorités aux fins de l’assistance alimentaire et nutritionnelle

La présente évaluation stratégique visait à analyser la pertinence, l’adéquation et l’efficacité des approches suivies par le PAM en matière de ciblage et d’établissement des priorités aux fins de l’assistance alimentaire et nutritionnelle en cette période d’augmentation des besoins et de contraction des ressources.

• Evaluations and Lessons Learned

Strategic evaluation of WFP’s approaches to targeting and prioritization for food and nutrition assistance

This strategic evaluation assessed the relevance, appropriateness and effectiveness of WFP’s approaches to targeting and prioritization for food and nutrition assistance in a time of rising needs and shrinking resources, covering the period from 2019 to 2025.

• Evaluations and Lessons Learned

Evaluation of WFP’s Supply Chain Strategic Roadmap (2022–2025)

This evaluation assessed the roadmap’s contribution to guiding the strategic direction of WFP’s supply chain; its efficiency; its results in terms of WFP’s work in leading emergency response, strengthening national systems and providing services to partners; and how the ambitions underpinning the road map were supported by strategic enablers.

• Evaluations and Lessons Learned

Learning from Oxfam's partnership-centered response in Ukraine

This learning review examines Oxfam’s partnership-centered humanitarian response in Ukraine since 2022, designed to support local humanitarian leadership (LHL) and feminist principles.

• Evaluations and Lessons Learned

Indigenous technology of terraces and its hydrological functions for managing agricultural water and addressing multifaceted climate and water-induced disasters

This paper examines the indigenous technology of agricultural terraces as technological components of a broader agroecological system and the underexplored hydrological functions they serve.

• Research and Studies

Evaluation of Armenia WFP Country Strategic Plan 2019–2025

This evaluation serves accountability and learning purposes and informs the preparation of the next country strategic plan for WFP in Armenia.

• Evaluations and Lessons Learned

Ukraine livelihoods needs and labor market assessment

Livelihood needs and labor market conditions in Kharkiv, Donetsk, Kherson, Dnipropetrovsk, Zaporizhzhia, Mykolaiv, and Odesa.

• Research and Studies

« J’aimerais être là quand ils prennent des décisions. » Recommandations à l’intention des acteurs de l’aide fondées sur les retours des communautés

Recommendations to humanitarian actors on improving aid, based on conversations with over 900 affected people in eastern DRC.

• Research and Studies

“I want to be there when they take decisions.” Recommendations to aid actors from community feedback

Recommendations to humanitarian actors on improving aid, based on conversations with over 900 affected people in eastern DRC.

• Research and Studies

« Cessez de créer des divisions entre nous avec votre ciblage »

Cette étude qualitative explore les tensions entre les communautés hôtes, les personnes déplacées et les retourné·e·s, ainsi que les mécanismes locaux qui favorisent ou nuisent à la cohésion sociale.

• Research and Studies

“Stop creating divisions between us through your targeting.”

This qualitative study examines tensions between host communities, displaced people and returnees, and local mechanisms shaping social cohesion.

• Research and Studies