Natural hazards

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

'On ne peut pas rester les bras croisés': Pratiques ambivalentes de l'(en)traide lors des inondations de 2022 à N'Djamena

Etude de cas Entraide lors des inondations au Tchad

• Research and Studies

Impact evaluation of anticipatory action in Nepal

This impact evaluation produces rigorous evidence to understand the impact of initiating anticipatory humanitarian assistance around a severe flooding event on food security, coping, psychological well-being, and livelihood outcomes in Nepal.

• Evaluations and Lessons Learned

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

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

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

Webinar: From listening to practice: Traditional knowledge and disaster preparedness | HNPW 2025

• Evaluations and Lessons Learned

Key action areas for addressing extreme heat in the Asia-Pacific: Lessons from regional platforms [Webinar]

• Research and Studies

Key action areas for addressing extreme heat in the Asia-Pacific: Lessons from regional platforms

• Research and Studies

Inter-Agency Humanitarian Evaluation of the response to the humanitarian crisis in Somalia

• Evaluations and Lessons Learned

Qualitative guide to run focus group discussions (FGD) with communities and local authorities on early warning systems

• Guidance and Tools

Humanitarian aid through a queer lens: LGBTI+ and refugee rights in crisis

• Research and Studies

Final evaluation of multi-sectoral support to earthquake-affected communities in North West Syria

Multi-sectoral support to earthquake-affected communities in North West Syria

• Evaluations and Lessons Learned

Why reform isn’t enough: From rethinking to remaking humanitarianism

This article questions whether humanitarian reform can ever be enough, urging instead a bold remaking of the system to confront its colonial roots, politicisation, and inequities while centring solidarity with affected communities.

• Commentaries

Accountability to affected people: handbook on implementation in emergency response

This Handbook supports WHO Health Emergencies Programme (WHE) staff to put people affected by humanitarian crises at the centre of decision-making on emergency health responses.

• Guidance and Tools

Making vulnerability analysis useful for humanitarian response

A comparative analysis of Somalia and Ukraine that reassesses how vulnerability is understood and operationalised in humanitarian response beyond conventional targeting models.

• Research and Studies

Türkiye-Syria earthquakes – lessons learnt and what next?

• Evaluations and Lessons Learned

The mediating roles of perceived social support and resilience in the relationship between earthquake anxiety and traumatic experiences among earthquake survivors in Turkey

• Research and Studies