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Collecting experiences of humanitarian-development-peace nexus approaches. Case studies in DRC, Somalia, Sudan, South Sudan, Mali, Ethiopia, Burkina Faso, Zimbabwe, Mozambique, Uganda, Sahel, Palestine, Afghanistan, Colombia and Iraq.
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This report documents findings from a retrospective analysis of two compound crises in the Horn of Africa to address key knowledge gaps related to compound risk.
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This study analyses international financial flows to nine countries for the 18 months after recent crises—drought, flood, cyclone, earthquake, and epidemic.
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This brief focuses on how climate change acts as a threat multiplier, worsening the existing risks and vulnerabilities to hunger for already disadvantaged people, particularly women, agricultural workers, and small-scale farmers.
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This paper provides a practical approach for selecting a model based on a step-by-step filter sequence for flood forecasting applications in data scarce regions, using Kenya as an example building on existing literature.
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The study compares urban growth into hazard areas in urban rims of Nairobi and Nyeri, Kenya. A change assessment from 1948 to 2020 is conducted by aerial images, declassifed satellite images, and recent data.
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Nairobi, Kenya, is one of the fastest-growing cities in Africa but natural resources, such as water, have suffered overexploitation. This paper reports the results of the first InSAR-based spatial assessment of land subsidence in Nairobi.
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In this follow-up Oxfam and Save the Children, supported by the Jameel Observatory, examine what has changed and what has not in the humanitarian system since 2011. They explain how it must evolve in order to enable and fully fund anticipatory action.

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