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2013 Tacloban, Philippines Typhoon Haiyan

Center for Climate and Health glObal Research on Disasters (CORD)

The CORD consortium works to protect health and build resilience in climate-related disasters. We collect and analyze data on the health effects of climate-related disasters, illuminating how vulnerable populations are affected around the world.

Pastoralists riding camels in the desert.

Feed the Future Pastoralism in Africa

The Feed the Future Pastoralism in Africa project focuses on developing learning materials for USAID on pastoralism. The primer is accompanied by six briefs that provide more detailed information on specific topics: gender, markets, conflict, land, water, and climate.

Rebuilding the Humanitarian Information Ecosystem

This project includes studies on early warning and assessment of crises, specifically looking at real-time monitoring, anticipatory action, political constraints, data collection and analysis, and the validity of indicators.

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Advancing Financial Resilience

The Financial Resilience program seeks to promote understanding of financial resilience – the ability of a household or community to prevent, sustain, or recover from financial shocks – in marginalized populations in high-risk/high-stress environments.

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Crisis and Social Transformation in Nepal

How does the work of aid agencies during and after conflict affect people’s perceptions of change? What can we learn from recent experience? Our work in Nepal has uncovered a number of interesting issues around the humanitarian-development relationship and the challenges of social transformation in a (hopefully) post-conflict environment that we feel are important to research both because they are largely unexplored and because of their potential policy implications.

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Humanitarian Agenda 2015

Over the past three years, Tufts/FIC has conducted 12 country case studies on local perceptions of the work of humanitarian agencies. The objective was to understand, from the perspective of those most affected by crisis and conflict, whether humanitarian action was seen as responding to a universal imperative or as an externally-driven approach linked to Northern and Western agendas.

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Developing a Conflict-Sensitive Microfinance Model for Darfur
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Professionalizing the Humanitarian Aid Sector
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