Responding to droughts

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  11 June 2026 / International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC), Nepal Red Cross

  Nepal drought response 2025: Lessons, learning and reflection workshop report

  This report reviews Nepal’s 2025 drought and cholera crisis in Madhesh Province, capturing lessons from the Nepal Red Cross Society’s first drought response operation.

  • Evaluations and Lessons Learned
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  8 April 2026 / The Share Trust

  The role of local actors in gender responsive and inclusive social protection systems

  This study shows how local actors can move from implementers to leaders in building gender‑responsive, inclusive, and sustainable social protection systems.

  • Evaluations and Lessons Learned
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  27 March 2026 / Ground Truth Solutions

  “We do not wait helplessly”: How communities in Somalia are coping with a “double shock” drought

  This report explores how communities enact strategies to navigate the 2025 drought amidst dwindling international humanitarian assistance.

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  16 March 2026 / ALNAP

  Learning from Crises: Responding to droughts

  17 lessons highlighting what humanitarian actors should prioritise when anticipating, responding to and supporting recovery from drought.

  • Evaluations and Lessons Learned
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  16 March 2026 / ALNAP

  Responding to droughts

  This lessons paper distills 17 top-level lessons from humanitarian responses to droughts between 2012 and 2024. The lessons highlight areas of strong convergence on what humanitarian actors should prioritise when anticipating, responding to and supporting recovery from drought.

  • Evaluations and Lessons Learned
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  1 March 2026 / IAHE

  Synthesis and meta-analysis of findings from crisis-specific inter-agency humanitarian evaluations covering the period 2015-2025

  The IAHE Synthesis exercise pulls together the findings from seven interagency humanitarian evaluations (IAHEs) covering nine different crisis contexts between 2015 – 2025.

  • Evaluations and Lessons Learned
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  10 February 2026 / U-Learn

  Impacts of climate hazards on agriculture in Nyumanzi Settlement – Adjumani District

  This brief highlights how extreme heat, drought, and flooding are affecting agricultural livelihoods in Nyumanzi Refugee Settlement.

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  3 February 2026 / Community World Service (CWS) Japan

  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.

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  17 January 2026

  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
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  15 January 2026 / Global Water Monitor Consortium

  Global water monitor: 2025 report

  The Global water monitor report aims to deliver open, actionable climate and water data.

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  14 January 2026 / World Food Programme (WFP)

  Evaluation of Somalia WFP Country Strategic Plan 2022–2025

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

  • Evaluations and Lessons Learned
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  2 January 2026

  Lessons from Uganda's earth observation-based disaster risk financing program

  This article explores the impact of satellite-based early warning on humanitarian outcomes and government fiscal efficiency.

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

  Status of mobility of livestock in Kenya

  This brief assesses the status of livestock routes and mobility in Ethiopia. It sets out steps policymakers can take to protect these vital corridors.

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

  Status of mobility of livestock in Kenya

  This policy brief assesses the status of livestock routes and mobility in Kenya.

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  1 December 2025 / Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research (CGIAR)

  Cost-benefit analysis of drought risk reduction anticipatory action in the Western Province of Zambia

  This technical report applies a cost-benefit analysis to assess the economic viability of selected drought risk reduction anticipatory actions in the Western Province of Zambia.

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

  Supporting (agro) pastoralists’ resilience through real-time monitoring of drought in Kenya and Ethiopia

  This report examines the crowdsourcing app KAZNET to collect drought impact data & improve early warning systems & index-based drought risk financing

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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