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.
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?
This paper studies the causal link between forage condition and food security in northern Kenya and southern Ethiopia, and explores the mechanisms through which the effects occur.
This policy brief shares experiences of using crowdsourced data to observe changes in food security attributable to drought in hard-to-reach and fragile areas of Ethiopia and Kenya.
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.
SPARC partner the Nigeria-based Fulbe Development and Cultural Organization is officially recognised by the United Nations Positive Livelihood Award Centre.
Better management of natural resources can drive ‘peace with nature’ and conflict resolution. Read about our new work on 'conventions locales', participatory rangeland management and peacebuilding.
On International Day of Rural Women, the IDRC-SPARC gender team reflects on its work with pastoralist women and communities, and the potential of empowering rural women to bring about gender equality.
