Literature monitoring

Effective humanitarian responses require collaborative environmental management : The approach in Cox’s Bazar, InterAction, 2024
While humanitarian responses focus mostly on the emergency phase—like addressing lifesaving and immediate needs—addressing the impacts and risks of climate change is increasing in urgency.
To these ends, InterAction conducted climate research and consultations to understand how climate change and environmental degradation impact humanitarian operations and what initiatives are being undertaken. Consultations revealed promising and laudable efforts by individual organizations within humanitarian sectors but underscored the current lack of strategy and the need for more collaborative environmental management.
https://www.interaction.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/Collaborative-Environmental-Management-in-Coxs-Bazar.pdf

Ten traps to avoid if aid programming is serious about engaging with context: Lessons from Afghanistan, Simon Levine, Adam Pain, ODI, 2024
Using examples from Afghanistan, this research outlines 10 traps that practitioners and donors working in fragile and conflict-affected regions must avoid if aid is to engage effectively with context. However, these same failings have been identified in the aid system globally, even beyond the fragile and conflict-affected places that are the particular concern of this research. This report will help you to understand the traps and learn how to avoid them, wherever you are working.
https://odi.cdn.ngo/media/documents/ten-traps-to-avoid-engaging-with-context-afghanistan.pdf

Anticipatory action in communities hosting refugees and internally displaced persons: An assessment of current approaches, Alexandra Schindler & al., IWMI Working Paper 212, IWMI, 2023
This paper is a global literature review of anticipatory action approaches in communities hosting forcibly displaced persons. It provides a review of the available data on water- and climate-related vulnerabilities in host communities to inform and strengthen anticipatory action approaches and climate adaptation initiatives, using case studies from Bangladesh, Nigeria and Sahel.
https://cgspace.cgiar.org/server/api/core/bitstreams/4cf4f84a-fd91-46b6-a514-53bdb5a5acbd/content

 

 

Thematic literature reviews

Several times a year, “Documentary analyses”, focusing on a given subject often related to current events, are also carried out.