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.
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 brief relays key learning points from pioneering a locally led approach to market monitoring, analysis and research in a context of extreme conflict and insecurity across Sudan's Darfur region.
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.
SPARC partnered with MarketShare Associates to conduct a field-based study on gender-inclusive animal health services (AHS) delivery in pastoral communities across Ethiopia and Kenya.
This brief aims to inform the Kenyan government’s review of the NLP of 2009 from a pastoralist perspective, to ensure that the NLP recognises and secures pastoralists’ land rights.
The paper offers some insights into understanding gendered vulnerabilities in Bor County, South Sudan, and provides recommendations to empower, and support the resilience of, women and girls.
This report sets out to see if it is possible to assess the impacts PWP assets have on people’s livelihoods in order to learn new lessons about how, when — or whether — to use PWP.
This study aims to identify the socio-cultural, economic and institutional factors contributing to gender inequalities among the pastoralists of Bauchi and Gombe States in Nigeria's Sahel region
This study explores the role of formal education in empowering women in Bor, South Sudan, a region severely affected by prolonged conflict leading to high school dropout rates, low enrollment, and weakened educational institutions.
Many of East Africa's drylands have suffered from top-down neglect or modernisation, both of which have failed to integrate local knowledge and voices. Can participatory planning help, and how?
