Research
our research, learning and innovation agenda
To advance our agenda and mobilise evidence under each of our challenge questions, we manage a portfolio of different research activities.
These include:
Post-doctoral projects
- Samuel Derbyshire: triggers for anticipatory action (with SPARC project)
- Tahira Mohamed: linking short-term humanitarian response with long-term resilience building in pastoral areas of the Horn of Africa (with SPARC project)
PhD research
- John Mutua: evaluating livestock diets using earth observation approaches in East Africa
- George Tsitati: locally led anticipatory measures to mitigate, adapt and respond to humanitarian crises
- Michael Renfrew: estimating livestock populations using satellite imagery
- Puff Mukwaya: economic evaluation of forecast based action
- Sirimon Thomas: operationalising one health for early warning of food insecurity and socio-ecological system breakdown in northern Kenya
- Susan Njambi-Szlapka: anticipating food crises in agro-pastoral communities – how can we provide effective early action
- Abdishakur Diriye: drought index triggered takaful insurance for Somali pastoral livelihood resiliency
Research ‘accelerator’ projects (2024-2025)
- Next-generation earth observation for anticipatory drought risk management in East African pastoral drylands (with University of Milan)
- Improved early warning of food insecurity: Integrating forecasts based on machine learning and anthropometric data into Kenya’s National Drought Monitoring Authority (with University of California)
- Strengthening proactive adaptation and early action systems to enhance food security and resilience to multiple hazards among pastoralists in the Borana Zone, Ethiopia. (with ADRA Denmark)
Commissioned research
- Anticipatory action in protracted crises – research insights from East Africa: By Save the Children
- Looking ahead in a crisis – roles for anticipatory action in protracted droughts: By Save the Children
- Dangerous delay 2 – the cost of inaction: By Save the Children
- Anticipatory action to mitigate drought-induced crises – Learning from Kenya and Somalia: By Centre for Humanitarian Change
Impact collaborations
For more information, contact Nathan Jensen
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