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  16 December 2025 / Ground Truth Solutions

  Whenever someone wanted something, everyone helped out. I truly understood the value of community.

  This report centres community perceptions in earthquake-affected areas in Mandalay and southern Shan, Myanmar.

  • Research and Studies
• Short read

  10 December 2025 / ALNAP, Local to Global Protection (L2GP)

  دعم المساعدة المتبادلة :ماذا تخبرنا الأدلة

  في ظل الضغوط المتزايدة التي يواجهها القطاع الإنساني، يتناول هذا التقرير مفهوم المساعدة المتبادلة باعتباره سبيلاً نحو نظام أكثر واقعية واستجابة.

  • Research and Studies
• Short read

  10 December 2025 / ALNAP, Local to Global Protection (L2GP)

  Apoyo a la ayuda recíproca: Lo que indican las evidencias

  As the humanitarian sector faces growing strain, this report looks at mutual aid as a pathway toward a more grounded and responsive system.

  • Research and Studies
• Short read

  10 December 2025 / ALNAP, Local to Global Protection (L2GP)

  Executive summary - Supporting mutual aid: what the evidence tells us

  As the humanitarian sector faces growing strain, this report looks at mutual aid as a pathway toward a more grounded and responsive system.

  • Research and Studies
• Short read

  10 December 2025 / ALNAP, Local to Global Protection (L2GP)

  Soutenir l’entraide : Ce que révèlent les éléments de preuve

  As the humanitarian sector faces growing strain, this report looks at mutual aid as a pathway toward a more grounded and responsive system.

  • Research and Studies
• Long read

  10 December 2025 / All India Disaster Mitigation Institute (AIDMI)

  20 years of local learning and knowledge co-creation in Asia: The case of Southasiadisasters.net

  Celebrating 20 years, Southasiadisasters.net amplifies local knowledge across Asia—connecting community voices to global action for resilience.

  • Research and Studies
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  Long read

  9 December 2025 / ALNAP, Local to Global Protection (L2GP)

  Supporting mutual aid: What the evidence tells us

  This review examines the results experienced by mutual aid groups when they receive external support, and the changes experienced by international actors who provide mutual aid support.

  • Research and Studies
• Long read

  9 December 2025 / All India Disaster Mitigation Institute (AIDMI)

  Towards climate and extreme heat resilience: Lessons from African and Asian communities

  Communities in Africa and Asia share local solutions for extreme heat resilience, highlighting grassroots innovation, and adaptation

  • Research and Studies
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  1 December 2025 / Supporting Pastoralism and Agriculture in Recurrent and Protracted Crises (SPARC)

  Adapting through bricolage: Building resilience in northeast Nigeria

  This policy brief explores how communities recombine available resources, skills, and relationships – or bricolage – to cope and respond to shocks.

  • Research and Studies
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  1 December 2025 / Supporting Pastoralism and Agriculture in Recurrent and Protracted Crises (SPARC)

  The drylands of tomorrow: Pathways to prosperity, peace and resilience

  This synthesis report brings together key SPARC learnings around the challenges and opportunities facing pastoralism and agriculture in the drylands.

  • Evaluations and Lessons Learned
• Long read

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

  Aid at a crossroads: Adapting to drylands realities

  This synthesis report outlines practical ways to make aid in fragile drylands more flexible, locally grounded and effective.

  • Evaluations and Lessons Learned
• Long read

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

  Influencing collective land tenure indicators: Burkina Faso, Kenya and Sudan case studies

  This report explores collective pastoral land tenure in Burkina Faso, Kenya, and Sudan

  • Research and Studies
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  1 December 2025 / Supporting Pastoralism and Agriculture in Recurrent and Protracted Crises (SPARC)

  Business model innovation for behaviour change within the goat value chain in Ethiopia: Implications for policy and investment

  This policy brief outlines actions policymakers and donors can take to strengthen Ethiopia's goat value chain and drive behaviour change and resilience.

  • Research and Studies
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  1 December 2025 / Supporting Pastoralism and Agriculture in Recurrent and Protracted Crises (SPARC)

  Causes profondes des conflits entre agriculteurs et éleveurs et leur impact sur les systèmes alimentaires locaux : Études de cas au Soudan, au Nigeria et au Mali

  Cette note d’orientation vise à comprendre les causes profondes et les impacts des conflits entre agriculteurs et éleveurs - Soudan, Nigeria, Mali

  • Research and Studies
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  25 November 2025 / All India Disaster Mitigation Institute (AIDMI)

  From heatwaves to cooling futures: Maharashtra’s leadership in climate action in India

  This issue features 17 contributions from practitioners, researchers, and institutions working across Maharashtra’s heat resilience landscape.

  • Research and Studies
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  21 November 2025 / Oxfam

  Building a locally driven humanitarian future in Somalia

  A research report analysing progress, challenges and opportunities in humanitarian localisation in Somalia, focusing on institutional capacity, direct funding access, power dynamics and local leadership within the evolving humanitarian system.

  • Research and Studies
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  21 November 2025 / ALNAP

  How to decide who receives what kind of support: Prioritising humanitarian resources

  This paper reviews the core issues facing humanitarian decision-makers on who, where and what to prioritise in response planning.

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  21 November 2025 / ALNAP

  Prioritising humanitarian resources: how to decide who receives what kind of support

  This paper reviews the core issues facing humanitarian decision-makers on who, where and what to prioritise in response planning.

  • Research and Studies
• Long read

  13 November 2025 / Ground Truth Solutions

  Understanding the path to inclusive aid and resilience: people-centred research to inform humanitarian action in Somalia

  This resource shares findings from a July–August 2025 quantitative survey of 7,400 people across 11 districts in Somalia, conducted by Ground Truth Solutions and RAGSAAN. Informed by a community co-design process, the survey captures people’s priority needs and their own perspectives on resilience.

  • Research and Studies
• Short read

  6 November 2025 / United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA)

  Voices that shape humanitarian responses: Advancing accountability to affected people in northern Syria

  This brief is intended for practitioners and policymakers and captures key lessons and promising AAP practices from northern Syria - one of the first settings globally to implement a comprehensive interagency AAP system.

  • Evaluations and Lessons Learned