Lessons for humanitarian responders: Floods

Addressing compounded crises in Belize: How a flexible approach cushioned vulnerable communities against shocks.

This brief provides an overview of how the government of Belize, with support from the World Bank and the Global Facility for Disaster Reduction and Recovery (GFDRR), addressed the urgent needs of vulnerable households and small farmers that were exacerbated by the COVID-19 pandemic.

• Research and Studies

Evaluation rétrospective de la réponse de l'UNICEF à la crise de la sécheresse de niveau L2 dans le sud de Madagascar de mi-juillet 2021 à mi-juillet 2022

A dangerous information gap

• Research and Studies

ٔ معلومات کی رسائی میں تشویشناک خلا

• Research and Studies

Disaster risk reduction in West Africa and the Sahelian region: A review of progress

This report is an assessment of progress at the regional level and in Burkina Faso, Chad, Mali, Mauritania, Niger, Nigeria and Senegal against the ‘African Union Programme of Action for the Implementation of the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction 2015-2030 in Africa’.

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Scenarios for a 1% gross national income (GNI) external public finance target

This paper investigates the feasibility of a combined development and climate-finance target funded by additional investment from high-income countries worth 1% of their GNI.

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Shock Responsive Social Protection in Nepal: An assessment of entry points and actions to plan a pilot flood response in the Child Sensitive Social Protection project zone

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Kenya Cash Consortium - Four years on: Locally led response case study

This paper aims to highlight milestones made regarding locally led humanitarian response under the umbrella of the Kenya Cash Consortium projects over the past four years. It also endeavors to present lessons learnt and some of the best practices to inform the humanitarian financing system.

• Evaluations and Lessons Learned

Mobilizing relief for flood affected communities in Afar: Implementation process, good practices, and lessons identified

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Mobilize for relief: Emergency response to flood affected communities in Afar

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Locally led action subverts traditional aid myths

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Filling the gap: Addressing climate-driven crises in Pakistan

The 2022 floods left one in seven Pakistanis affected, exposing how current funding systems fail the most vulnerable. This briefing calls for a more reliable, climate‑just response that links relief, recovery, and resilience.

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Floods in Pakistan: Rethinking the humanitarian role

• Evaluations and Lessons Learned

Forewarned, but not Forearmed? Lessons for the Recent Floods in Pakistan from 2010

• Evaluations and Lessons Learned

Lessons on communication, community engagement and accountability for the Pakistan floods response

• Evaluations and Lessons Learned

Dili Flood Response Program 2021 Evaluation Report

• Evaluations and Lessons Learned

ALNAP Lessons Paper: Adapting humanitarian action to the effects of climate change

This lesson paper reviews evidence from previous humanitarian interventions to identify lessons and examples of best practice that might be applied when designing humanitarian action in response to future climate-related disasters.

• Evaluations and Lessons Learned

Understanding the Role of Anticipatory Action in Somalia

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Beneficiary assessment for independent evaluation of anticipatory action pilot in Somalia (August 2021)

The assessment involved assessing beneficiary experiences and drawing lessons from four anticipatory action interventions conducted by WFP, IOM and FAO in Somalia.

• Evaluations and Lessons Learned

Disaster during a pandemic: Lessons from the 2020 flooding in South Japan

This report examines how the COVID-19 pandemic affected both the preparedness and the recovery for the 2020 flood response in Japan.

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