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Policy brief

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.
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Audio and podcasts

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.
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SPARC partner publication

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.
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Evidence review

This report, commissioned midway through SPARC’s six-year run, synthesises the programme's work in the period 2020 to mid-2023.

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DD 5
Blog

In this episode of Dynamic Drylands podcast, an expert discusses how smallholder farmers recover after fighting—and why they receive so little support.
DD ep 3
Blog

This episode of Dynamic Drylands podcast series 2 reflects on how the international climate and development community can support people living in the most fragile and hard-to-reach places.
DD 2
Blog

Episode 2 of the Dynamic Drylands podcast interviews experts about aid projects which have unintended results—and why development organisations are so rarely going back to check.

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