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Stepping up the DEC's response to climate-based humanitarian needs

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Meeting humanitarian needs and helping people adapt to the impacts of climate-related crises is one of the foremost challenges of the 21st century for humanitarian organisations and represents an important focus of DEC member charities. This report provides recommendations for how DEC members can adapt at a programmatic, organisational, and sectoral level to better meet these needs, based on an examination of the success of current practices, strategies for scale-up, and evaluation of the challenges faced, coalescing around three main themes emerging from the research. Through a series of interviews with DEC members and an evaluation of the literature, these three themes were identified as crucial to scaling up the DEC’s response to climate change. These included anticipatory action, locally-led responses, and scaling up multi-actor involvement, which are outlined in this report.

This research piece was conducted by Masters research students at the London School of Economics (LSE), using a selection of DEC appeals and the broader work done by DEC members as case studies, though we hope that the learnings and examples will be relevant to the wider sector as a whole. If you have any questions about this report, please reach out to accountability@dec.org.uk