Responding to droughts

The involvement of local government in the Drought Early Warning Surveillance process and its sustainability

• Guidance and Tools

Oxfam America's community-based Drought Early Warning Surveillance approach

• Guidance and Tools

Climate Change Resilience: The Case of Haiti

• Research and Studies

Tapped Out: Water Scarcity and Refugee Pressures in Jordan

• Research and Studies

Will Drought Worsen the Impact of Conflict on Food Insecurity?

Wereda Profile and Wereda DRR Planning - DRMFSS - Ethiopia

Drought contingency plan Garissa county

Terminal evaluation of coping with drought and climate change in Mozambique, 2012 - 2016

This evaluation assesses the effectiveness of the project Coping with Drought and Climate Change in Mozambique in contributing to food security and capacity to adapt to climate change in agricultural and pastoral systems in the district of Guijá, Province of Gaza, Southern Mozambique.

• Evaluations and Lessons Learned

Drought Management Initiative: Livestock Component

This reports documents the findings of a quasi-experimental impact evaluation of Oxfam's livestock component of the Kenya’s ‘Turkana-Pokot Drought Management Initiative (DMI)’, carried out in July 2012.

• Evaluations and Lessons Learned

Good practice principles and lessons learnt from cross-border DRR programming in the drylands of the Horn of Africa

This brief highlights the lessons learnt from ECHO DRR partners in working across the borders of Ethiopia, Kenya, Uganda and Somalia, including recognition of cross-border initiatives at the national level, and suggests a process which could be followed in other types of intervention.

• Evaluations and Lessons Learned

Diriswanaag Final Evaluation

Cash for assets: World Food Programme’s exploration of the in-kind to e-payments shift for food assistance in Kenya

This paper assesses Cash for Assets (CFA), a joint World Food Programme (WFP)/Government of Kenya conditional cash transfer scheme. CFA reaches food insecure households in seven arid and semi-arid land (ASAL) counties in eastern and coastal Kenya, where recipients work on community assets to build resilience against drought.

• Research and Studies

Consolidated appeal for Somalia 2012 - End year report

This report provides an overview of the humanitarian funding, operational environment and progress on objectives in Somalia in 2012.

• Research and Studies

Final independent evaluation of project for response to the 2012 Sahel food security and livelihoods crisis (DFID I and II)

This evaluations points out the strengths and weakness of ACF's response to the 2012 Sahel crisis and provides operational and administrative recommendations for enhancing capacity building and resilience through long-term planning.

• Evaluations and Lessons Learned

“Like a good trip to town without selling your animals”: A study of FAO Somalia’s Cash for Work programme

Emergency operation evaluation of Ethiopia drought operation

This evaluation assesses the effectiveness of IFRC's emergency drought operation to address and respond to the most urgent humanitarian needs in the sectors of food relief and cash grants, water and sanitation, health and institutional capacity building.

• Evaluations and Lessons Learned

Evaluation of the ‘Mozambique Drought Response 2012’

• Evaluations and Lessons Learned

Humanitarian assistance through mobile cash transfer in Northern Afghanistan

The objective of this independent comparative evaluation was to contribute to inform DFID about the overall efficiency, effectiveness, transparency, and value for money of setting up emergency short-term, cash-based projects to disaster affected populations.

• Evaluations and Lessons Learned

Evaluation of FAO’s cooperation in Somalia, 2007 to 2012

This evaluation assesses FAO’s performance in Somalia, identifying success factors and challenges and providing recommendations for maximizing the strategic relevance of FAO’s engagement in the country.

• Evaluations and Lessons Learned

Evaluation: Drought Recovery for Vulnerable ASAL Populations in Tana River and Marsabit County Kenya