Focus topics

Strengthening resilience through disaster risk reduction and climate change adaptation - Final evaluation report

Final evaluation of a project aimed to build build community resilience through disaster risk reduction, climate change adaptation, and the integration of protection, gender and inclusion, and community engagement and accountability in eight high-risk communities across three Sudanese states.

• Evaluations and Lessons Learned

The challenge of humanitarian communication: Bridging principles and public perception

This edition critically reflects on how humanitarian narratives can promote dignity, agency, and justice.

• Research and Studies

Barrier study on inclusion standards in the humanitarian response in the occupied Palestinian territories (oPt)

This study examines the extent to which persons with disabilities are included in humanitarian service delivery (education, protection, health).

• Research and Studies

“Save what remains of Gaza” - Community perspectives on aid, survival and humanity during the genocide

How are Palestinians in Gaza surviving – practically, socially, and emotionally – in a context of war, blockade and bombardment.

• Research and Studies

Les communautés sous pression: Perceptions dans l’est de la RDC

Communities in eastern DRC want peace, safety, and fair aid. Despite crisis, social ties and mutual help still hold.

• Research and Studies

Communities under pressure: Perceptions from eastern DRC

Communities in eastern DRC want peace, safety, and fair aid. Despite crisis, social ties and mutual help still hold.

• Research and Studies

Repositioning power: Strategic pathways to locally led humanitarian operations in East Africa

Evidence-based policy brief showcasing East African thought leaders' insights into concrete pathways for locally led humanitarian action.

• Research and Studies

Using cropland maps to monitor livestock routes in Sudan

This study used remote sensing to analyse the effects of livestock route interventions in Sudan and detected large-scale cropland abandonment.

• Research and Studies

Assessment of opportunities, structures and limitations to community participation and accountability in the Ukraine response

This assessment by NRC aimed to identify opportunities, structures, and limitations to community participation and accountability in NRC programmes within the Ukraine response context, specifically in Moldova and Ukraine.

• Evaluations and Lessons Learned

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

Définitions : critères pour l’évaluation de l’action humanitaire

• Guidance and Tools

Definitions: Criteria for the evaluation of the humanitarian action

• Guidance and Tools

Adapting the OECD criteria for the evaluation of humanitarian action

• Guidance and Tools

Adapting the OECD criteria for the evaluation of humanitarian action

• Evaluations and Lessons Learned
• Guidance and Tools

تكييف معايير منظمة التعاون الاقتصادي والتنمية لتقييم العمل الإنساني

• Guidance and Tools

Definiciones: los criterios para la evaluación de la acción humanitaria

• Guidance and Tools

Nature-based cooling solutions for cities

This special issue brings together global, regional, and local experiences to explore nature-based solutions (NbS) as an environmental necessity and climate justice tool for urban cooling.

• Research and Studies

La desigualdad de aqua

This podcast discusses the impact of water scarcity globally.

• Commentaries

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

Evaluation Report on Accountability to Affected People

This evaluation report presents a comprehensive assessment of OCHA’s efforts to enable collective AAP across the humanitarian system from 2022 to 2024.

• Evaluations and Lessons Learned