By Evan Easton-Calabria , Abdirahman Ahmed , Dawud Mohamed , Aarti Singh December 2023 While anticipatory action (AA) is commonly designed to address one specific hazard such as drought, many...
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Mobility Matters: The Benefits of Pastoralist Mobility for Nutrition in Marsabit and Isiolo Counties, Kenya
By Elizabeth Stites , Achiba Gargule , Padmini Iyer , Helen Young Pastoralist mobility underpins resilience, food security, nutrition, and human and animal health. This learning brief presents...
Vulnerability, Risk, and Resilience: The implications for the drivers of malnutrition in Isiolo and Marsabit Counties, Kenya
By Helen Young , Achiba Gargule , Elizabeth Stites , Anastasia Marshak , Judith Munga , Elijah Odundo , Sophie Ochola The resilience of pastoralism as a livelihood system stands out, even with the...
WHAT is the state of acute malnutrition in Marsabit and Isiolo Counties, and WHO is at risk?
By Anastasia Marshak , Ayane Ezaki , Elijah Odundo , Judith Munga , Achiba Gargule , Elizabeth Stites , Sophie Ochola , Helen Young Parts of northern Kenya face persistently high rates of child acute...
Children on the Margins: The Impact of Depriving Children of their Right to Nationality and Legal Identity in Northwest Syria
A new report finds that, compounding the humanitarian crisis, hundreds of thousands of children living in opposition-held areas in Northwest Syria are being denied access to their rights to...
Yemen + 4 more
Do Famine Declarations Really Lead to Increased Funding?
AUTHORS Daniel Maxwell, Matthew Day, Peter Hailey Throughout 2022, as the situation worsened in the Horn of Africa, there were numerous calls from journalists and humanitarian leaders for famine to...
Acting in Advance of Flooding: Early action in South Sudan
Executive Summary This brief presents findings and takeaways from a research study focused on the process and perceptions of implementing early action in South Sudan, including in the Bentiu...
Sex, age (and more) still matter: Data collection, analysis, and use in humanitarian practice
DYAN MAZURANA, ANASTASIA MARSHAK, KINSEY SPEARS Executive Summary and Key Findings Progress has been made but more is needed: The gender myth: Nearly everyone in the humanitarian industry that we...
“Co-investigators but with different power”: Local voices on the localization of humanitarian research
By Merry Fitzpatrick, Isabella Cordua, Teddy Atim, Anita Kattakuzhy, and Kyra Conciatori Executive summary Humanitarian research has long been dominated by institutions from the Global North (GN),...
Ethiopia + 4 more
Famine Prevention: A Landscape Report
In 2022, the number of people caught in extreme acute food insecurity climbed to over 200 million. By 2023, famine, mass starvation, and the use of starvation as a weapon of war have once again...
World + 6 more
Anticipatory Action in Motion: Recapping the most recent evidence and illuminating a pathway forward
Abstract Early warning systems are increasingly promoted as one way to adapt to climate change, and anticipatory action (AA) initiatives are being promoted globally to act before disasters happen. AA...
South Sudan + 2 more
Education and Female Youth in Displacement in South Sudan and the Kurdistan Region of Iraq
There is a demonstrated relationship between early marriage and education. Female youth who are out of school are more likely to marry, and those youth who marry while in school, are more likely to...
Behavior Change in the Face of Disaster Risk Finance
Large-scale Disaster Risk Finance (DRF) mechanisms are relatively new tools in the field of humanitarian assistance and anticipatory action that can have significant positive effects on disaster...
Trauma-Informed Anticipatory Action: Considerations for Refugees and Other Displaced Populations
AUTHOR: Evan Easton-Calabria Global displacement is rising, and the trend is projected to continue. Today 1 out of every 78 people in the world is displaced (UNHCR 2022). The need for anticipatory...
Disaster Risk Financing: An Overview from Lesotho
How do governments pay for the impacts of climate-related disasters, including helping people before they strike? While disaster risk financing (DRF) is a newer area of practice, governments around...
South Sudan + 1 more
The Cost of Being Female: Mental Health and Psychosocial Support (MHPSS) of Displaced Female Youth in South Sudan and the Kurdistan Region of Iraq
In following the lives of displaced female youth in South Sudan and the Kurdistan Region of Iraq, the research team was struck by how central mental health—in particular poor mental health and...
South Sudan + 1 more
Circumscribed Lives: Separated, Divorced, and Widowed Female Youth in South Sudan and the Kurdistan Region of Iraq
Kimberly Howe, Elizabeth Stites, Meg Moran, Anastasia Marshak, Khalat Ahmed Hammada, Shilan Sulaiman, Nyachar Lony, and Tabitha Nyaleel Maguek Very little is known about the experiences of female...
Local Knowledge and Perceptions on the Causes of Malnutrition among the Dasanech in Kenya: A Rapid Participatory Assessment in Illeret Ward, Marsabit County
John Burns, Andy Catley, Mohamed M. Yusuf, Felista Ntesekwa, Timaado, Paul Lokono, and Joshua Anete In early 2022, northern Kenya was suffering from a severe drought that resulted in widespread...
World + 2 more
How Can Social Protection Systems Be Leveraged for Anticipatory Action?
The humanitarian sector is increasingly working to make social protection systems more adaptive so that they can scale up or out in the face of a hazard. For example, prior to an extreme weather...
Another Humanitarian (and Political) Crisis in Somalia in 2022
Somalia is facing a humanitarian crisis of major severity and magnitude in 2022, following four failed rainy seasons, an on-going protracted conflict, and the impact of rising global food prices—the...