Focus topics

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

“How can we rebuild when our best efforts are just washed away?”

This report centres community perceptions in earthquake-affected areas in Sagaing, Myanmar.

• Research and Studies

Grand Bargain annual meeting 2025: Summary note

The report discusses progress in the implementation of the GB3.0 Framework, ambitions for the next 14 months, country-level perceptions of the GB implementation, and the future of the platform beyond 2026.

• Research and Studies

Deep-rooted causes of farmer–herder conflicts and impact on local food systems: Case studies from Sudan, Nigeria and Mali

This brief aims to understand the root causes and impacts of farmer–herder conflicts through a food production system and political economy lens.

• Research and Studies

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

How to manage crises differently in ASALs without talking about a nexus: What we can learn from the water sector

SPARC research on water development in the drylands reveals how a divide between development thinking and humanitarian action is undermining resilience.

• Research and Studies

Internal midterm review of the Project for Resilience and Enhanced Preparedness and Action (PREPA), Mozambique

The PREPA Project aimed to strengthen climate-resilient livelihoods, disaster risk reduction, climate change adaptation, and health and WASH services in Manica Province.

• Evaluations and Lessons Learned

Accountability to Affected People: Humanitarian response against gender-based violence

This paper analyses the activities of humanitarian stakeholders in the design, delivery, monitoring and evaluation of dedicated GBV humanitarian responsive interventions, as well as survivors and those at risk of GBV.

• Guidance and Tools

Green inclusive and resilient Liberian communities: Final project evaluation

Final evaluation of the GIRL prokect aimed to strengthen resilience in 45 communities, focusing on improving access to safe water and sanitation, promoting healthy hygiene behaviors, and enhancing climate-smart agriculture and disaster preparedness through inclusive, community-driven approaches.

• Evaluations and Lessons Learned

Islamic Relief Middle East learning study (2021 - 2025)

The study forms part of an ongoing strategic development and re-orientation process for IRW, both globally and within the MENA region.

• Evaluations and Lessons Learned

Key insights and lessons from the Ukraine refugee response learning platform

Drawing on Caritas’ deep field experience and local partnerships, the report outlines current response efforts, identifies critical gaps and risks and offers policy recommendations to enhance support for displaced Ukrainians.

• Evaluations and Lessons Learned

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

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.

• Commentaries

Invisible wounds: The life-saving imperative of mental health in Gaza and lessons learned

This report highlights the life-saving importance of Mental Health and Psychosocial Support (MHPSS) for communities and frontline workers and how tailored, context-specific care can restore dignity and resilience amid ongoing conflict.

• Evaluations and Lessons Learned

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

From Lessons to Leadership: Prioritizing Collective Accountability to Affected People

• Guidance and Tools

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

The role of the Afghan diaspora in mobilising support to emergency and recovery efforts

• Research and Studies

Development on the margins: how to build resilience in fragile places

This episode focuses on the conflict blind spot in development and climate action.

• Research and Studies

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