Responding to droughts

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  10 November 2025 / Assessment Capacities Project (ACAPS)

  Somalia: Anticipated effects of drought on malnutrition drivers

  An analytical report assessing how prolonged drought in Somalia is expected to intensify the drivers of malnutrition, offering forward-looking evidence to inform anticipatory planning and integrated humanitarian response.

  • Research and Studies
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  1 November 2025 / Supporting Pastoralism and Agriculture in Recurrent and Protracted Crises (SPARC)

  Food aid, sharing and resilience: the role of collectivity and connectivity in drought affected pastoralist systems in Ethiopia

  This brief aims to draw learnings from better understanding if and how pastoralists share food aid, and if and how this affects their ability to cope.

  • Research and Studies
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  1 November 2025 / Supporting Pastoralism and Agriculture in Recurrent and Protracted Crises (SPARC)

  How to manage crises differently in ASALs without talking about a nexus: What we can learn from the water sector

  SPARC research on water development in the drylands reveals how a divide between development thinking and humanitarian action is undermining resilience.

  • Research and Studies
• Audio

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

  Development on the margins: how to build resilience in fragile places

  This episode focuses on the conflict blind spot in development and climate action.

  • Research and Studies
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  1 October 2025 / Supporting Pastoralism and Agriculture in Recurrent and Protracted Crises (SPARC)

  Ten ways to create people-centred early warning systems in conflicts and recurrent crises

  This policy brief synthesises SPARC’s learning related to early warning systems.

  • Research and Studies
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  1 October 2025 / Supporting Pastoralism and Agriculture in Recurrent and Protracted Crises (SPARC)

  Ten ways to reduce disaster risk in conflicts and recurring crises

  This policy brief synthesises SPARC’s learning related to DRR in conflicts and recurrent crises.

  • Research and Studies
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  23 September 2025

  Women, water, and the future of farming in rural India

  Examines the increasing feminization of agriculture, structural inequities and coping strategies in water-scarce areas in India.

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  7 September 2025 / Directorate-General for European Civil Protection and Humanitarian Aid Operations (DG ECHO)

  La desigualdad de aqua

  This podcast discusses the impact of water scarcity globally.

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  2 September 2025

  Women: the hidden pillars of peace

  This episode examines women’s roles in reconciliation and peacebuilding in Galmudug, Somalia and the conditions required to enhance their formal participation in peace processes.

  • Commentaries
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  1 September 2025 / Supporting Pastoralism and Agriculture in Recurrent and Protracted Crises (SPARC)

  Resource catalogue: Supporting pastoralism and agriculture in recurrent and protracted crises

  This resource catalogue collates all of the work published across SPARC's six-year run.

  • Research and Studies
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  29 July 2025 / Ground Truth Solutions, Salma Consulting

  “Many families marry their daughters off at the age of 10”: Supporting women through the impacts of natural hazards in Afghanistan

  Case studies of the drought in Faryab, the flood in Baglan, and the earthquake in Herat.

  • Research and Studies
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  27 June 2025 / Supporting Pastoralism and Agriculture in Recurrent and Protracted Crises (SPARC)

  The inconvenient truths of water development in the drylands of the Horn of Africa: how to use new water sources to support resilience for pastoralists

  This brief explores how to best manage risks associated with permanent water supplies in arid and semi-arid lands in the Horn of Africa.

  • Research and Studies
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  27 June 2025 / Supporting Pastoralism and Agriculture in Recurrent and Protracted Crises (SPARC)

  Transforming pastoral livelihoods through market interventions: does the impact match expectations? Lessons from a decade of investments in Somali Region, Ethiopia

  This report identifies lessons about the development model and theory of change, and its appropriateness for pastoral economies.

  • Evaluations and Lessons Learned
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  12 May 2025 / Christian Aid

  An integrated analysis of Christian Aid Kenya’s interventions, indigenous practices, and County Climate Financing Mechanisms

  Study on how climate change affects food security in rural Kenya and the impact of Christian Aid’s interventions in the north.

  • Research and Studies
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  2025 / Action Against Hunger

  Prise en charge de la malnutrition aiguë et actions anticipatoires: Une approche intégrée

  Cette note méthodologique en présente une approche opérationnelle, pour intégrer la PECMA dans un protocole AA centré sur un aléa externe (inondation, sécheresse, cyclone, choc anthropique).

  • Guidance and Tools
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  2025 / Action Against Hunger

  Management of acute malnutrition and anticipatory actions protocols: An integrated approach

  A practical guide for humanitarian actors to embed nutrition into Anticipatory Action (AA) frameworks, ensuring continuity of care and resilience during shocks.

  • Guidance and Tools
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  1 May 2025 / World Vision

  Relief, recovery and resilience: A study of World Vision HDP Nexus programming in northern Bahr el Ghazal, South Sudan

  World Vision research study on project-level programmatic implementation and coordination across the HDP nexus in the region of Bahr al Ghazal in South Sudan.

  • Research and Studies
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  1 May 2025 / Humanity and Inclusion, International Alert, Mercy Corps, Swedish International Development Agency (SIDA)

  Weathering change: Exploring connections between climate adaptation and conflict prevention in Mali

  This Mercy Corps report finds that climate adaptation and conflict prevention are interconnected, and that integrating interventions across sectors can foster more peaceful, cohesive, and resilient communities in fragile, climate-affected contexts.

  • Research and Studies
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  31 March 2025 / Supporting Pastoralism and Agriculture in Recurrent and Protracted Crises (SPARC)

  Does resilience-building last when projects end? Retrospective lessons from projects to support pastoralists in Turkana, Kenya

  This retrospective study examines the longer-term impacts of three interventions in Turkana, Kenya, six years after a project ended.

  • Evaluations and Lessons Learned
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  26 March 2025 / ALNAP

  What can humanitarians learn from Somalia’s response to the worst drought in four decades?

  This HNPW session explored the successes and challenges of the humanitarian response in Somalia, along with ongoing efforts to enhance its effectiveness.

  • Evaluations and Lessons Learned