Locally led humanitarian action

Disaster risk reduction in conflict contexts: An agenda for action

This report brings together evidence, experience and ideas on the connections between violent conflict and disaster risk to explore how DRR policy and practice can better reflect the realities of social conflict in interventions in fragile and conflict-affected contexts.

• Research and Studies

Note on the ‘Messina Model’ applied in the context of ad hoc relocation arrangements following disembarkation

• Guidance and Tools

Failing to reach the poorest: Subnational financing inequalities and health and education outcomes

This report looks at how effectively subnational financing targets regions with the worst health and education outcomes.

• Research and Studies

Cartographie et profil socio-économique des communautés de retour en Mauritanie

• Research and Studies

Towards a localised humanitarian response in India

• Research and Studies

Uganda DRR budget tracking - What are the key areas of investment?

This report assesses investment in Uganda disaster risk reduction programmes, presenting a risk-sensitive review of budgets from 2016/17 to 2018/19

• Research and Studies

Kenya’s 2019/20 budget and the big four agenda: a pro poor analysis

A detailed analysis of the Kenya budget for the 2019/20 financial year and how it might impact the poorest people.

• Research and Studies

Localisation Through Partnership: Shifting towards Locally-led Programming in Myanmar: Phase 1 – The Partnership Journey

• Research and Studies

Is the 2019/20 Uganda budget pro-poor?

This paper analyses the Uganda budget for the 2019/20 financial year, focusing on allocations to health, education, agriculture and social protection.

• Research and Studies

Guide to organising and working with community-based paralegals

• Guidance and Tools

TDR de consultoría Evaluación de la fase inicial de la Estrategia de Voluntariado de UNICEF Nicaragua (2018 - 2019)

Recommendations for managing recurrent disaster-related shocks and supporting resilience options in Somalia

This note distills lessons from Somalia’s 2011 and 2016 famines, showing communities adapting through new coping strategies and stronger preparedness, while highlighting persistent vulnerabilities, and offering recommendations for inclusive, resilience‑focused humanitarian and development action.

• Research and Studies

Towards an improved understanding of vulnerability and resilience in Somalia

This report explores in detail the strategies that have helped build resilience in Somalia over the course of recurring crises

• Research and Studies

Grand Bargain: field perspectives 2018

• Research and Studies

Q&A: Degan Ali on the systemic racism impacting humanitarian responses

• Research and Studies

Kanyemba Community Managed Disaster Risk Reduction (CMDRR): lessons learned

• Evaluations and Lessons Learned

Safeguarding Toolkit

• Guidance and Tools

Putting localization at the center of the humanitarian future

• Commentaries

Étude de contexte sur les dynamiques socio-politiques et diagnostic des besoins prioritaires d’investissements dans la zone du Gourma malien

• Research and Studies

Barrio Mío y Katye: el enfoque vecinal de PCI en las ciudades

• Research and Studies