Natural hazards

Anticipatory action to manage climate risks: Lessons from the Red Cross Red Crescent in Southern Africa, Bangladesh, and beyond

This study identifies common benefits and challenges associated with anticipatory action programs.

• Research and Studies

Pakistan floods appeal: 6 month report

• Research and Studies

Coping with the drought crisis in Somalia: Formative research findings from the Resilience Population Measurement (RPM) project

This formative research aimed to explore what effective coping means in the context of the current drought, how are households relied on social networks to cope and what the main psychosocial determinants of household resilience were against shocks.

• Research and Studies

Real-time evaluation of FAO’s COVID-19 Response and Recovery Programme – Phase II Progress report

• Evaluations and Lessons Learned

Inequality: Global trends

The 2023 inequality factsheet highlights how global crises have deepened disparities and reinforced poverty links. It calls for stronger evidence and more effective finance to address inequality in all its dimensions.

• Research and Studies

Developing a theory of change for drought early actions

This webinar presents current approaches, challenges and lessons learnt on drought along the different stages of the Early Action Protocol (EAP) development.

• Guidance and Tools

How can we speak the truth if they can’t understand us?

• Research and Studies

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

Performance evaluation of USAID’s response to COVID-19-enabled corruption

Measuring Women’s Leadership in COVID-19 Responses in Viet Nam

• Evaluations and Lessons Learned

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

Evaluation Report on the 2023 earthquake response in Turkey for Caritas

• Evaluations and Lessons Learned

Afghanistan humanitarian response plan: 2022 end-year monitoring report of financing, achievements and response challenges

This end-of-year report captures progress against the needs and targets identified in the 2022 Afghanistan Humanitarian Response Plans.

• Research and Studies

Tackling Health Misinformation in Humanitarian Settings Using Behavioral Science

• Guidance and Tools

What can evaluations tell us about the pandemic response?

• Evaluations and Lessons Learned
• Research and Studies

Addressing the mental health needs of those affected by the earthquakes in Türkiye

• Research and Studies

Anticipatory Action in Advance of 'Wicked Crises' - Insights from a real-time study of people’s lives in Somalia 2020–2022

• Research and Studies

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’.

• Research and Studies