Before COVID-19, Mozambique’s Community-Led Total Sanitation (CLTS) protocol, introduced in 2008 and referenced in the Strategy of Rural Sanitation 2021-2030, broadly aligned with the original...
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Lessons Learned from Humanitarian Interventions in Ukraine (2014-2021)
Eastern Ukraine has been affected by conflict since 2014, resulting in large numbers of people requiring humanitarian assistance. Throughout the different phases of the conflict, numerous lessons...
WASH and older people (SLH Learning Paper - March 2022 | Issue 12)
Introduction Today, people worldwide can expect to live into their 60s and beyond. There are estimated to be around 900 million older adults (aged 60 years and above), around 13 per cent of the world...
Helpdesk Report K4D: Lessons from livelihood interventions that increase the resilience of populations to droughts in Afghanistan and other FCAS
Written by Roz Price Creating and protecting more resilient rural livelihoods is seen as being key to advancing Afghanistan’s development and improving its resilience to climate change impacts,...
Afghanistan + 3 more
Helpdesk Report K4D: Area-based programming in fragile- and conflict-affected contexts
Written by Huma Haider Area-based programming (ABP) is an approach that defines an area as the primary entry point, rather than a sector or target group. It is particularly appropriate in areas with...
K4D Helpdesk Report: Lessons learnt from humanitarian negotiations with the Taliban, 1996-2001
This rapid literature review finds that humanitarian actors responded in a variety of ways to Taliban actions limiting principled aid in the country during the period of their rule (1996-2001). The...
Humanitarian Action
The purpose of humanitarian action is to support people affected by armed conflicts and disasters by helping them to save their lives, alleviate their suffering, maintain their dignity, assist their...
Evidence Synthesis: The Humanitarian Innovation and Evidence Programme (HIEP): Bringing New Evidence and Methods to Humanitarian Action
In 2013, the United Kingdom Department for International Development created the Humanitarian Innovation and Evidence Programme (HIEP). The programme was established in response to the paucity of...
Helpdesk Report: K4D - Lessons learned from Ebola outbreak 9 in Equateur Province, Democratic Republic of the Congo
Reviews of the humanitarian response to the 9th Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) in Equateur province show that shortcomings in previous responses, such as timeliness and...
Mapping Differential Vulnerabilities and Rights: ‘Opening’ Access to Social Protection for Forcibly Displaced Populations
In recent years, forcibly displaced populations have attracted enormous media attention as an increasing number of disasters and political conflicts push more and more people to move away from their...
Ethiopia + 1 more
Multi-year humanitarian funding in Ethiopia
Lewis Sida, Simon Levine, Bill Gray and Courtenay Cabot Venton Executive summary In early 2014 the UK Department for International Development (DFID) commissioned Valid Evaluations to carry out a...
World + 4 more
Multi-year humanitarian funding: A thematic evaluation
Simon Levine and Lewis Sida with Bill Gray and Courtenay Cabot Venton Executive summary Humanitarian aid is largely concentrated in crises that are protracted or recurrent. In 2016, 60% of global...
Pakistan + 1 more
Multi-year humanitarian funding in Pakistan
Simon Levine and Agata Kusnierek Introduction 1.1 The thematic evaluation of multi-year humanitarian finance For many years, voices within the humanitarian world have been pointing out a central...
Social Protection or Humanitarian Assistance: Contested Input Subsidies and Climate Adaptation in Malawi
Ruth Haug and Bjørn K.G. Wold Abstract The purpose of this article is to assess factors that contributed to the apparent success of the Farm Input Support Programme (FISP) in the period 2005–15, and...
Nigeria + 5 more
Famine: Lessons Learned
Famine: Lessons Learned was produced as the world was responding to four potential famines simultaneously – in Nigeria, South Sudan, Yemen and Somalia. Much has been written and researched on famine,...
China + 1 more
A literature review on China’s aid
Question A review of the literature on China’s aid (traditional and non-traditional) to developing countries. in particular: What are the definitions of China’s aid and what statistics are available...
ORIE Nigeria: Quantitative Impact Evaluation Baseline Report
Visram, A., Jasper, P., Moore, L., Adegoke, F., Kveder, A., Arif, S., Ward, P. Nutrition Research in Northern Nigeria (ORIE) Publisher ORIE This report presents the findings from the baseline survey...
Community-driven Disaster Risk Management and Reduction in the Philippines
Urbanisation in the developing world, mostly driven through the spread of informal settlements, is occurring at a rapid pace, and this growth has direct implications upon strategies that seek to...
World + 3 more
Mobilising Men in Practice: Challenging sexual and gender-based violence in institutional settings
Author: Institute of Development Studies, University of Sussex No. of pages: 114 Publication date: 2012 Publisher: Institute of Development Studies ISBN: 978 1 78118 043 3 Men need to be involved in...
The Social Impacts of Crisis: Findings from community-level research in five developing countries
A year on from research into the impacts of the food, fuel and financial crises in five developing countries, researchers returned to eight of the ten original communities to study how the global...