Responding to droughts

Facing Famine: Somali Experiences in the Famine of 2011

• Research and Studies

Floods and Droughts through a Gendered Lens; mitigating strategies for women, girls, boys and men in Malawi

• Research and Studies

Feed the Future Ethiopia: External mid-term performance evaluation report

This evaluation assesses the effectiveness of USAID's Feed the Future initiative in Ethiopia.

• Evaluations and Lessons Learned

Common Programme Framework for Ending Drought Emergencies

• Guidance and Tools

Climate change in the Fertile Crescent and implications of the recent Syrian drought

• Research and Studies

Understanding Drought in India

• Research and Studies

Zimbabwe Food Security - Emergency Appeal Evaluation

Kenya ending drought emergencies policy review

This review highlights some of the political economy factors that affect the implementation of Kenya’s Ending Drought Emergencies (EDE) Common Programme Framework (CPF).

• Research and Studies

Food security and livelihoods – from recovery to resilience

This evaluation assesses the success of ACF's intervention while extracting lessons learnt that could support future operations in the region, and possibly elsewhere.

• Evaluations and Lessons Learned

A greener Burkina: Sustainable farming techniques, land reclamation and improved livelihoods

This case study describes the factors that have enabled 200,000–300,000 hectares (ha) of degraded land in Burkina Faso to be brought into productive use through the application of improved traditional farming techniques.

• Research and Studies

Another humanitarian crisis in Somalia?

This paper summarises several of the key areas of learning from the 2011-12 famine, growing out of the research of a group at the Feinstein International Center from 2013 to 2014.

• Evaluations and Lessons Learned

Evaluation of Australia's response to the Horn of Africa humanitarian crisis, 2011

Droughts in Asian least developed countries: Vulnerability and sustainability

This paper reflects on prevalence and impacts of droughts, existing coping mechanisms, initiatives to combat impacts and further doubles in the context of Asian LDCs.

• Research and Studies

Final Independent Evaluation of the Comprehensive Livelihoods Intervention in Ashtarlay District, Daykundi Province in Afghanistan

Terms Of Reference: Madagascar PRRO 200065 - Response to Recurrent Natural Disasters and Seasonal Food Insecurity: An Operation Evaluation

• Evaluations and Lessons Learned

Adapting to climate change and addressing drought – learning from the Red Cross Red Crescent experiences in the Horn of Africa

This paper shares lessons learnt from the operations that the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC) and its National Societies undertook from 2008 to 2010 in the Horn of Africa, related to adapting climate change and addressing drought.

• Research and Studies

Final Independent Evaluation of the project for reducing community vulnerability to the impacts of Climate Change in Zimbabwe: Building Resilience to Drought through Scaling up Mechanized Conservation Agriculture

Community-based Drought Early Warning Surveillance (DEWS) to assist local capacity building

• Guidance and Tools

Community participation in emergencies: does it make a difference?

• Guidance and Tools

People matter: Why is community participation a core standard in the Livestock Emergency Guidelines and Standards (LEGS)?

• Guidance and Tools