The Covid-19 Learning, Evidence and Research Programme in Bangladesh (CLEAR) is a 2.5 year FCDO-funded programme to support an evidence-informed Covid-19 response and recovery in Bangladesh. The pandemic has disrupted production in agriculture, industry and the informal sector- creating a new...
Changing rainfall patterns caused by climate change can increase the severity and frequency of both droughts and floods. This is a cause for concern when these historically new patterns occur in drought-prone areas. While local communities in arid rural areas may be used to adapting to the...
The protection of civilians is a fundamental principle in humanitarian policy and practice, and continues to be a priority for many humanitarian organisations. While protection strategies have traditionally been top-down, reactive, and often militaristic, recent approaches have increasingly...
In Africa, remote borderland regions are commonly the site of protracted humanitarian crises. These places are formidable “islands of innovation”, where local initiative and skills are combined to generate innovative adaptive responses through multiple shocks. How do these individual and...
The Governance research cluster works across a number of thematic areas that are focused on ensuring citizens are represented and governed fairly in a world of changing state authorities. Our work critically examines public authority and the institutions, networks and politics that shape it....
Climate disruption, environmental change and resource scarcity have become the subject of growing policy attention, academic debate and popular political mobilization in recent years. These issues are linked in political and media discourses to phenomena ranging from famine, migration,...