Engaging refugees as researchers — including as interviewers, interpreters, and enumerators — can improve the quality of research. However, it can also pose risks for those refugees remaining in the…
Evan Easton-Calabria
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Evan Easton-Calabria’s research focuses on the structure of humanitarianism and development, including anticipatory action, refugee self-reliance, and local governance.
She is part of the Academic Alliance on Anticipatory Action (4As), seeking to advance evidence on humanitarian action for forecasted extreme weather events. She conducts qualitative research on humanitarian interventions in east and the Horn of Africa with partners including the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) and the World Food Programme (WFP). She also works to improve recognition of the impacts of extreme weather events on displaced populations.
She was previously Principal Investigator of the Refugee Studies Centre, University of Oxford research project, Responses to Crisis Migration in Uganda and Ethiopia: Researching the role of local actors in secondary cities, funded through the Cities Alliance/UNOPS.
Evan holds a master’s and doctorate in international development from the University of Oxford. She is co-author of The Global Governed? Refugees as providers of protection and assistance (Cambridge University Press 2020). Her latest book, Refugees, Self-Reliance, Development: A critical history, was published with Bristol University Press in June 2022.
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The time pressure involved in designing and implementing anticipatory action can discourage the localization of decision-making. Learn more from a cartoon-infused summary of insights.
This study examines how anticipatory action was perceived and experienced among Ethiopians living with drought alongside other crises.
In 2022 UN OCHA led a pilot anticipatory action intervention in South Sudan. This brief presents UN actors’ perceptions of this intervention.
This anticipatory action landscape brief summarizes what has been published on anticipatory action since 2020 and what progress has been made on existing recommendations.
This brief builds on the existing body of knowledge on trauma-informed practice to explore ways that anticipatory action for displaced populations can be improved.
This brief examines Lesotho, a small country in southern Africa that is highly vulnerable to climate hazards, is equipped to make use of DRF.
This literature review examines social protection systems in hazard-prone countries to make recommendations on how these systems could be best used to inform or implement anticipatory action.