Natural hazards

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

Voices that shape humanitarian responses: Advancing accountability to affected people in northern Syria

This brief is intended for practitioners and policymakers and captures key lessons and promising AAP practices from northern Syria - one of the first settings globally to implement a comprehensive interagency AAP system.

• Evaluations and Lessons Learned

“How can we rebuild when our best efforts are just washed away?”

This report centres community perceptions in earthquake-affected areas in Sagaing, Myanmar.

• Research and Studies

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

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

Final evaluation of the DEC Turkiye-Syria earthquake appeal

This final evaluation assesses the performance and quality of IR’s earthquake response across Phase 1 and 2, using OECD DAC criteria.

• Evaluations and Lessons Learned

The role of the Afghan diaspora in mobilising support to emergency and recovery efforts

• Research and Studies

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

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

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

Strengthening resilience through disaster risk reduction and climate change adaptation - Final evaluation report

Final evaluation of a project aimed to build build community resilience through disaster risk reduction, climate change adaptation, and the integration of protection, gender and inclusion, and community engagement and accountability in eight high-risk communities across three Sudanese states.

• Evaluations and Lessons Learned

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.

• Commentaries

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

La desigualdad de aqua

This podcast discusses the impact of water scarcity globally.

• Commentaries

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

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

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

نظرة عامة على التقييم: التقييم الإنساني المشترك بين الوكالات للاستجابة للزلازل في تركيا وسوريا

Inter-Agency Humanitarian Evaluation of the collective response of IASC members in meeting the needs of communities affected by the 2023 earthquakes in Türkiye and Syria (Arabic version).

• Evaluations and Lessons Learned

Inter-agency humanitarian evaluation of the response to the earthquakes in Türkiye and Syria

Inter-Agency Humanitarian Evaluation of the collective response of IASC members in meeting the needs of communities affected by the 2023 earthquakes.

• Evaluations and Lessons Learned