This report presents key lessons and areas of good practice from specific examples, along with recommendations and entry points for inclusive, accessible early warning systems (EWS). It is aimed at...
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Community-based early warning systems
Key Overview • Community-based early warning systems (CBEWS) bridge crucial gaps in providing early warning for all. • CBEWS emphasise anticipatory action by empowering communities to monitor and...
Mobile-based Early Warning Systems For effective and inclusive alerting
Key Points • With 3 out of 4 people owning a mobile phone (in 2022), mobile networks have become a powerful communication channel to alert populations about an imminent hazard. • Cell broadcast and...
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Community and Impact-Based Warnings: the Site-Specific Early Warning System Framework
Authors: Erika Meléndez-Landaverde and Daniel Sempere-Torres WARNINGS BRIEFING NOTE Key Points Warnings must empower communities to reduce hazard impacts. A community-based approach allows systems to...
From double burden to double duty: Policy implications of double-duty actions to address the full spectrum of malnutrition (technical consultation – December 3, 7, 9, 2020)
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY This report provides a summary of the technical consultation From Double Burden to Double Duty: Policy and Programmatic Implications of Double-Duty Actions to Address the Full...
OPEN LETTER: Uniting Behind A People’s Vaccine Against COVID-19
Humanity today, in all its fragility, is searching for an effective and safe vaccine against COVID-19. It is our best hope of putting a stop to this painful global pandemic. We are calling on Health...
Building Emergency Planning Scenarios for Viral Pandemics
David E. Alexander with IRDR Staff and Students Introduction The purpose of this report is to provide a systematic, if incomplete, record of the issues connected with the Covid-19 pandemic in order...
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REFANI Cost-Effectiveness Analysis (CEA): Overview of Research Implementation
BACKGROUND A cost-effectiveness analysis (CEA) is an economic analysis to compare costs and effects of two interventions. A CEA is an important measure of programme performance, bringing valuable...
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REFANI: Research on Food Assistance for Nutritional Impact - Synthesis Report (November 2017)
REPORT OVERVIEW This report is divided into four sections; Section 1 provides an overview of the Research on Food Assistance for Nutritional Impact (REFANI) project including a summary of the study...
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Refugee Hosts Newsletter No. 4, Summer 2018
Contextualising the Localisation of Aid In recent years, and especially since the 2016 World Humanitarian Summit, the ‘localisation of aid agenda’ has become prominent in discussions about responses...
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Local Faith Community Responses to Displacement in Lebanon, Jordan and Turkey: Emerging Evidence and New Approaches
Introduction There is a growing interest within academic and policy circles surrounding the roles played by local faith communities (LFCs) and faith based organisations (FBOs) in responding to...
New Partnership between UNHCR and JLI with UCL and Islamic Relief Worldwide: The Roles of Faith and Local Faith Communities in Supporting Refugees
The Joint Learning Initiative on Faith and Local Communities (JLI) is pleased to announce a research collaboration with UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, in 2018-2019. Generously funded by the European...
Feedback to Action: Strategies to improve the use of feedback in programmatic decision-making
This report is the result of a joint CDA-International Rescue Committee research funded by the US State Department Bureau of Population, Refugees, and Migration. From the Executive Summary This study...
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Refugee Hosts Newsletter No. 2, Summer 2017
Approaching Faith and Displacement Refugee Hosts is an AHRC-ESRC funded research project investigating local community experiences of and responses to displacement in Lebanon, Jordan and Turkey. In...
Les petites catastrophes érodent la résilience des ménages : la capacité d’absorption des ménages en butte aux inondations à Niamey, Niger
La résilience urbaine est un produit de la capacité des ménages à absorber le stress, à s’adapter et à transformer la marge d’action en gestion du risque. Cette note politique décrit dans ses grandes...
Sustainable Food Systems: The Role of the City
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The impact of mental health and psychosocial support interventions on people affected by humanitarian emergencies: A systematic review
This systematic review, commissioned by the Humanitarian Evidence Programme and carried out by a team from the EPPI-Centre, University College London (UCL), draws together primary research on mental...
Understanding everyday and disaster risks in Karonga Town, Malawi
This policy brief presents information on the full spectrum of risks facing the inhabitants of Karonga, and these have been identified by Karonga residents as resulting in premature death or injury...
Small disasters erode household resilience: the absorptive capacity of flood-prone households in Niamey, Niger
This brief outlines a new methodology developed to investigate aspects of resilience in very poor urban contexts where economic assets are universally constrained. It was developed in response to...
Education Rigorous Literature Review: The role and impact of philanthropic and religious schools in developing countries
Executive Summary Introduction This report summarises the findings of a rigorous review on the role and impact of philanthropic and religious schools in developing countries. A prior review initially...