Reports

John Burns, Andy Catley, Mohamed M. Yusuf, Felista Ntesekwa, Timaado, Paul Lokono, and Joshua Anete In early 2022, northern Kenya was suffering from a severe drought that resulted in widespread livestock mortality and increased child malnutrition and…

Somalia is facing a humanitarian crisis of major severity and magnitude in 2022, following four failed rainy seasons, an on-going protracted conflict, and the impact of rising global food prices—the latter made significantly worse by the…

Few studies on early marriage actually research the lives of girls after the marry. This briefing paper examines the experiences of life after marriage for female youth who married under the age of 18 in South…

n South Sudan, one in three girls become pregnant before turning 15 (UNCIEF 2020). The Ministry of Gender, Child, and Social Welfare reports that the risks of sexual abuse, child marriage, and early pregnancy have increased…

More than four million people were internally displaced in Ethiopia as of early 2021. The two main drivers of internal displacement are conflict and drought. Due to livelihood loss and on-going conflicts, many of the displaced…

By Hassan Alattar Satti, Helen Young, and Aziza Mohammed Adam Introduction The natural environment is an integral part of people’s lives and livelihoods in the Darfur region. Whether it’s materials for housing, fuel for cooking, water for domestic…

By Karen Jacobsen and Kim Wilson 1. Introduction One of the biggest challenges facing refugees and migrants is navigating the livelihoods and financial landscape of a camp or city after they arrive in a host or transit country.…

By Hassan-Alattar Satti with Hussein Sulieman, Helen Young, and Anne Radday Executive Summary The importance of natural resources in Darfur is derived from the fact that the predominant rural livelihoods of the region depend primarily on those resources.…

In protracted crises where there are weak or nonexistent formal governance structures, people depend heavily on local systems—both social and economic—to get by. Communities themselves are often the first responders in a crisis, reacting long before…

Introduction The majority of Darfur livelihoods depend on farming and pastoralist systems of production, either directly or indirectly. These two systems, or livelihood specializations, have given rise to livelihood strategies predominantly based on either farming or pastoralism,…