Explore SPARC’s publications and resources as we create, distil, evaluate and share evidence and best practice on research and policy that aims to support pastoralists and farmers in dryland areas.
This reviews aims to deepen understanding of Gender Transformative Approaches (GTAs) in pastoral contexts in SPARC countries in Africa. It describes where and how transformative impacts have occurred.
This report explores the perspectives of agro-pastoralist men and women in Toch East and Pathuon West Payams on how flooding and conflict impact their lives and livelihoods.
This brief looks at what ‘people-centred’ EWS means, particular challenges of improving it in conflicts and recurring crises, and the implication of a knowledge-system way of thinking about EWS.
This brief suggests how to think differently about DRR in conflicts, rather than how to implement it, and draws on evidence that it is necessary and possible even in conflicts and recurring crises.
This policy brief reflects SPARC’s learning on why the main models used by the international humanitarian community for planning anticipatory action show limited promise in difficult places and what alternative approaches might be more helpful.
A pastoralist moves his livestock through Ganawuri town, Nigeria. Credit: Elphas Ngugi/SPARC
In advance of the 2025 Global Platform for Disaster Risk Reduction, SPARC researchers have prepared three draft discussion documents drawing on six years of SPARC research.
Dynamic Drylands is SPARC's podcast which explores new ways of thinking about aid, development and resilience in the drylands of Africa and the Middle East.
This report, funded by SPARC and prepared at the request of the G20 Presidency, highlights the potential for more rapid progress to eradicate extreme poverty.
This SPARC-funded report, launched at COP28 in December, argues for a new way of thinking about and delivering the climate agenda in fragile and conflict-affected situations.
