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Issue brief

This brief provides an overview of the effect of the war and the subsequent embargo imposed by the Rapid Support Forces on regular trade into and out of areas it controls, with a focus on Darfur.
Dynamic Drylands
Audio and podcasts

Dynamic Drylands is SPARC's podcast mini-series which explores new ways of thinking about aid, development and resilience in the drylands of Africa and the Middle East.
A man tends his livestock in Sankabar Kebele, the Somali region of Ethiopia. Credit: UNICEF Ethiopia.

This report, commissioned midway through SPARC’s six-year run, synthesises the programme's work in the period 2020 to mid-2023.
A Samburu woman from Northern Kenya enters data into the Mbiotisho app. Credit: ILRI

This Research Framework aims to guide SPARC interventions between 2023 and 2025.

Latest news and features

Somali women stand near a water point at Dayniile IDP camp in Somalia - Image by UN/ Tobin Jones - CC BY-NC-ND 2.0
News

SPARC's dedication to generate and deliver timely research is officially recognised in the programme's recent annual review.
Asabey John from Borno State, Nigeria - Image by Conflict & Development at Texas A&M University - CC BY-NC-ND 2.0
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SPARC launches new partnership working with women and girls from dryland communities in the Sahel to build more resilient, equitable livelihoods.
Rendille village women, semi-nomadic pastoralists, North Kenya – Photo by Carsten ten Brink - CC BY-NC-ND 2.0
News

Find out more about a new SPARC research project working with researchers and women and girls in the Sahel to advance gender equality in fragile food systems.

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