Research
our research, learning and innovation agenda
To advance our agenda under each challenge question, we have initiated different activities, including research projects in the form of PhD and post-doc projects, including:
- John Mutua: evaluating livestock diets using earth observation approaches in East Africa (PhD)
- George Tsitati: locally led anticipatory measures to mitigate, adapt and respond to humanitarian crises (PhD)
- Michael Renfrew: estimating livestock populations using satellite imagery (PhD)
- Puff Mukwaya: economic evaluation of forecast based action (PhD)
- Samuel Derbyshire: triggers for anticipatory action (post-doc with SPARC project)
- Tahira Mohamed: linking short-term humanitarian response with long-term resilience building in pastoral areas of the Horn of Africa (post-doc with SPARC project)
- Sirimon Thomas: operationalising one health for early warning of food insecurity and socio-ecological system breakdown in northern Kenya (PhD)
- Susan Njambi-Szlapka: anticipating food crises in agro-pastoral communities – how can we provide effective early action (PhD)
- Abdishakur Diriye: drought index triggered takaful insurance for Somali pastoral livelihood resiliency (PhD)
We also commission individual pieces of research, from our partners or others, including: