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The CLEAN Helpdesk integrates gender equity, disability, and social inclusion (GEDSI) through all technical assistance (TA) requests to advance effective and sustainable climate, environment and nature (CEN) outcomes. We support programmes to embed equitable outcomes, meaningfully engage socially excluded groups, and leverage GEDSI co-benefits through their work. Read more about our approach in this info note.

• United Kingdom
• Gender Equity
• Governance
• 2025

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.

• Afghanistan
• Gender Equity
• SPARC (Supporting Pastoralism and Agriculture in Recurrent and Protracted Crises)
• 2023

This brief highlights Somalia's vulnerability to climate hazards, exacerbated by climate change, and the critical need for increased climate finance. As of May 2023, the ongoing drought since 2021 has severely impacted over 6.6 million people, leading to significant humanitarian appeals—rising from USD 1.09 billion in 2021 to USD 2.27 billion in 2022. Despite these challenges, Somalia receives minimal climate finance.

• Somalia
• Humanitarian
• Climate Finance
• SPARC (Supporting Pastoralism and Agriculture in Recurrent and Protracted Crises)
• 2023

This report asks what more can be done to address food security in low-income economies that are frequently subjected to conflict, political instability, macroeconomic imbalances and natural disasters. The report focuses on 14 countries: the 10+1 group, which includes 10 countries –Afghanistan, Central African Republic, Democratic Republic of Congo, Ethiopia, Nigeria, Somalia, South Sudan, Sudan, Syria and Yemen – and 1 region: Burkina Faso, Chad, Mali and Niger.

• Afghanistan
• Central African Republic
• Congo (Democratic Republic)
• Ethiopia
• Nigeria
• Somalia
• South Sudan
• Sudan
• Syria
• Yemen
• Burkina Faso
• Chad
• Mali
• Niger
• Humanitarian
• Agriculture, Land-use, and Forestry
• SPARC (Supporting Pastoralism and Agriculture in Recurrent and Protracted Crises)
• 2023

This SPARC-funded report, launched at COP28 in December, argues for a new way of thinking about and delivering the climate agenda in fragile and conflict-affected situations.

• Climate Resilience and Adaptation
• Conflict
• Climate resilience
• SPARC (Supporting Pastoralism and Agriculture in Recurrent and Protracted Crises)
• 2023

The policy brief "How Can Africa Manage the Transboundary Climate Risks It Faces?" examines how climate change impacts and related actions in one nation can create risks that extend beyond borders, termed transboundary climate risks (TCARs). These risks can hinder economic progress, disrupt trade and food security, and affect infrastructure across Africa.

• Somalia
• Climate Resilience and Adaptation
• SPARC (Supporting Pastoralism and Agriculture in Recurrent and Protracted Crises)
• 2023

This recent study from SPARC offers insights from a real-time study of people’s lives in Somalia during 2020–2022, looking at how crisis-affected people take their own anticipatory action.

• Somalia
• Humanitarian
• SPARC (Supporting Pastoralism and Agriculture in Recurrent and Protracted Crises)
• 2023

This policy brief, developed for the UK’s (November) 2023 Global Food Security Summit, summarises insights from recent research from Supporting Pastoralism and Agriculture in Recurrent and Protracted Crises (SPARC) in the Sahel, Syria and Yemen: mostly semi-arid areas subject to protracted crises and conflict, sometimes exacerbated by natural disasters, where food crises and food emergencies threaten.

• Syria
• Yemen
• Agriculture, Land-use, and Forestry
• SPARC (Supporting Pastoralism and Agriculture in Recurrent and Protracted Crises)
• 2023