Lessons for humanitarian responders: heatwaves

Ending gender-based violence in disaster risks

This issue examines how disasters, displacement, extreme heat, migration, water scarcity, recovery processes, and climate adaptation can intensify violence against women and girls when protection systems are weak or absent.

• Research and Studies

Small heat resilience measures: Big impact in small towns and on small businesses in India

This issue explores how small, low-cost heat resilience actions can help protect health and livelihoods of street vendors, artisans, women workers, and informal businesses.

• Research and Studies

20 years of local learning and knowledge co-creation in Asia: The case of Southasiadisasters.net

Celebrating 20 years, Southasiadisasters.net amplifies local knowledge across Asia—connecting community voices to global action for resilience.

• Research and Studies

Towards climate and extreme heat resilience: Lessons from African and Asian communities

Communities in Africa and Asia share local solutions for extreme heat resilience, highlighting grassroots innovation, and adaptation

• Research and Studies

From heatwaves to cooling futures: Maharashtra’s leadership in climate action in India

This issue features 17 contributions from practitioners, researchers, and institutions working across Maharashtra’s heat resilience landscape.

• Research and Studies

Nature-based cooling solutions for cities

This special issue brings together global, regional, and local experiences to explore nature-based solutions (NbS) as an environmental necessity and climate justice tool for urban cooling.

• Research and Studies

Grounding success of heat adaptation: Learning what heat adaptation success means to communities

This note compiles insights from workshops and conversations in the Global South on what works in extreme heat adaptation efforts.

• Research and Studies

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

Coastal disasters with a focus on extreme heat: Perspectives from South Asia

This issue of Southasiadisasters.net explores how extreme heat is reshaping vulnerabilities in coastal communities.

• Research and Studies

Heat as humanitarian crisis: What local organisations are doing

Special issue of Southasiadisasters.net on one of the fastest-growing humanitarian threats of our time—extreme heat.

• Research and Studies

Parametric insurance solutions for all

• Research and Studies

Parametric insurance solutions for all [Webinar]

• Research and Studies

Community-driven heat solutions compendium

This compendium contains solutions that have been piloted by communities across the Global South—solutions that are ready to be scaled globally with support from the broader adaptation community.

• Research and Studies

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

Urgency of urban heat adaptation

• Research and Studies

Harnessing collective knowledge: Advancing adaptation research and action through tracking, learning, and sharing around extreme heat [Webinar]

• Research and Studies

Harnessing collective knowledge: Advancing adaptation research and action through tracking, learning, and sharing around extreme heat

• Research and Studies

How mutual aid strengthened Greater Uki's community resilience (2019 - 2022)

This report considers the forms and characteristics and dynamics of mutual aid and the relationship between mutual aid and official responses

• Research and Studies

Comment l'entraide a renforcé la résilience communautaire du Greater Uki (2019 - 2022)

Ce rapport examine les formes, les caractéristiques et la dynamique de l'entraide, ainsi que la relation entre l'entraide et les réponses officielles, dans le Greater Uki, en Australie.

• Research and Studies

Feeling the heat: How humanitarians should respond to rising temperatures

This DEC and LSE report examines the role of extreme heat in driving new and exacerbating existing humanitarian need.

• Research and Studies