Environment and climate Archives - Social Science in Humanitarian Action Platform

Briefing

Food assistance prioritisation in refugee settlements in Uganda and its impacts

This brief considers the humanitarian and policy implications of the general food and cash assistance prioritisation strategy in Uganda’s refugee settlements.

Central and East Africa Hub

SSHAP

2024

Briefing

From data to action: How findings from an interagency rapid qualitative assessment are stimulating action to support drought-affected communities in Zambia

This brief shares findings and learnings from a rapid qualitative assessment to inform community engagement strategies and hold response actors accountable to affected populations.

Central and East Africa Hub

SSHAP

2024

blog

Cross-border learning to enhance the contribution of social science to humanitarian action

Risk Communication and Community Engagement (RCCE) is a critical component of cholera outbreak response. Sharing insights, strategies, and best practices for RCCE from national and regional efforts to combat cholera can enable actors to co-create solutions to common challenges and help pave the way towards stronger and more empowered communities.

Ginger A. Johnson, Rachel James, Sophie Everest, Nadine Beckmann

8 Sep 2024

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Rapid qualitative assessments: harnessing the explanatory power of social science for people-centred emergency response

Equipping people working in community engagement and communications during humanitarian crises with the knowledge to use social science research can enable them to generate robust, rigorous and context-relevant socio-behavioural evidence to inform interventions and policymaking. Ginger Johnson highlights the important work of Collective Service partners to support governmental and non-governmental…

Ginger A. Johnson

28 Aug 2024

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Responding to floods in South Sudan through the humanitarian-peace-development nexus infographic

This infographic summarises the insights from a recent key considerations brief on responding to floods in South Sudan, describing the multidimensional impacts of flooding on peace, health, livelihoods and governance.

Central and East Africa Hub

SSHAP

2024

Briefing

Responding to floods in South Sudan through the humanitarian-peace-development nexus

This Key Considerations brief looks at interconnected problems in the context of South Sudan through a focus on flooding, with wider relevance to other countries in the region, such as the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Sudan, experiencing similar…

Central and East Africa Hub

SSHAP

2024

Briefing

Information Preparedness and Community Engagement for El Niño in the Eastern and Southern Africa Region

El Niño can be viewed as a multi-hazard event, and considerations for information needs cut across different populations and risks, including direct weather-related hazards, reduced agricultural production, greater food insecurity and malnutrition, increased transmission of infectious diseases and effects on…

Central and East Africa Hub

SSHAP

2023

Briefing

Key Considerations: Disability-Inclusive Humanitarian Action and Emergency Response in South and Southeast Asia and Beyond

In many settings, people with disabilities face multiple and complex layers of environmental, societal and structural barriers. These barriers can lead to them being disproportionately harmed, neglected and excluded during humanitarian and other emergency responses.1–3 This is especially evident in…

SSHAP

2023

Research paper

West African Migration in the Age of Climate Change : Translocal Perspectives on Mobility from Mali and Senegal

This thesis contributes to the debate on climate change, environment, and migration by scrutinizing conceptual and methodological deficiencies and adopting a migration research perspective. The author uses a multi-sited ethnography in Mali and Senegal to show how human activites shape…

West Africa Hub

2019

Research paper

Understanding Women’s Needs for Weather and Climate Information in Agrarian Settings: The Case of Ngetou Maleck, Senegal

This paper demonstrates that even at the village level, women have different climate and weather information needs, and differing abilities to act on that information. Preconceived connections between identities and vulnerability hinder the ability to address the climate-related development and…

West Africa Hub

2016

Research paper

The politics of risk policies in Dakar, Senegal

The paper presents research on the flood mitigation strategies of urban dwellers and the State in the same locality in the suburbs of Dakar. Through an Actor Network Theory approach based on a “translocal” ethnography of risk, the paper explores…

West Africa Hub

2017

Research paper

Social construction of climate change and adaptation strategies among Senegalese artisanal fishers: Between empirical knowledge, magico-religious practices and sciences

African Atlantic countries are among the most vulnerable to global climate change (CC). Artisanal fishers are particularly vulnerable to the impacts of environmental change on the fisheries on which their livelihoods depend. Although the authors found that most fishers accept…

West Africa Hub

2023