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Nancy Balfour

Nancy Balfour is Founding Trustee at the Centre for Humanitarian Change.

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Livestock keeper in Turkana, Kenya. Credit: Elphas Ngugi / Supporting Pastoralism and Agriculture in Recurrent and Protracted Crises (SPARC)
Flagship report

This synthesis report brings together key SPARC learnings around the challenges and opportunities facing pastoralism and agriculture in the drylands, and where future investment might be most effective.
Community members around a water storage tank
Policy brief

SPARC research on water development in the drylands reveals how a divide between development thinking and humanitarian action is undermining resilience and community trust.
Rows of camels drink from a water trough
Technical report

The current approach to providing new water supplies is undermining pastoralists’ resilience, not enhancing it. This report covers nine sites across Marsabit Co., Kenya and Somali Region, Ethiopia.
Camels drink from a trough under white clouds and blue sky
Policy brief

This brief explores how to best manage risks associated with permanent water supplies in arid and semi-arid lands in the Horn of Africa.
People in an arid environment transporting water on the backs of camels and donkeys
SPARC partner publication

This study explores narratives around water supply and household resilience from the perspective of funding and development agencies, and reviews policies for adaptation and resilience in drylands.

Latest news and features

An abandoned water tower.
Blog

If one picture says a thousand words, then a whole volume on resilience building through water projects is captured in these six photographs.
Camels drinking from a trough. Credit: Jackson Wachira / Center for Research and Development in Drylands
Blog

New SPARC research in Ethiopia and Kenya should change perceptions about how water development is affecting pastoralist communities.
Collecting water at the UNDP-funded dam in Baligubadle, Somaliland, northwest Somalia - Image by UNDP Somalia/Flickr - CC BY-NC 2.0
Blog

Water is at the core of investment needs in Somalia. It is the essential prerequisite for a rural economy, and the main determinant for the viability of fast-growing urban centres. It is also a resource in increasingly short supply.

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