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Reducing Health and Nutrition Impacts of Drought through Anticipatory Action

Hazard-focused anticipatory action (AA) plans that focus on drought often seek to mitigate or avoid negative impacts to nutrition and food security. The most recommended approach for AA for malnutrition is…

Health Outcomes of Anticipatory Action for Waterborne Disease

Waterborne disease anticipatory action (AA) plans focus entirely on reducing health impacts and rely heavily on surveillance systems. Globally, government agencies have developed elaborate surveillance and control measures to combat…

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Health Outcomes of Anticipatory Action for Vector-borne Disease

Predictive modelling, surveillance and risk mapping, early warning systems, and anticipatory action (AA) such as pre-positioned resources are all important means for preventing vector-borne diseases. The vector-borne diseases identified as…

Reducing Health Impacts of Storms and Flooding through Anticipatory Action

The human health impact of storms and flooding occur during and after these weather events and include risks of injury or death as well as waterborne disease. The most common…

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Reducing Health Impacts of Heatwaves through Anticipatory Action

Extreme heat is one of the fastest-growing hazards globally. Anticipatory action (AA) is one way to reduce the negative health impacts of heatwaves alongside other adaptive strategies to reduce the…

Landscape of Anticipatory Action for Health in a Changing Climate

This report provides a global review of anticipatory action frameworks and offers a typology of approaches to AA for different national contexts and health outcomes.

How Can Social Protection Systems Be Leveraged for Anticipatory Action?

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.

Community-Based Animal Health Workers in the Horn of Africa

This report describes the process and findings of an evaluation of community-based animal health workers (CAHWs) in Kenya, Ethiopia, and South Sudan. Overall, the researchers find that CAHWs continue to…

Livelihood Dynamics in Northern Karamoja

This report documents the findings of a livelihoods assessment carried out as part of the USAID funded Growth, Health and Governance program being implemented by Mercy Corps and partners in…

Milk Matters

This report presents the findings of two cohort studies assessing the impact of small-scale livestock interventions, designed to sustain access to and availability of animal milk at the household level over the dry season, on the nutritional status of children under 5 years of age.

Conflict in the Somali Region of Ethiopia

How can improved primary education contribute to peace and security in the troubled Somali Region of Ethiopia? The BRIDGES project is implemented by Save the Children UK, Mercy Corps and…

Baseline and Mid-term Assessment of the PSNP Plus Project in Sire and Dodota

This report presents the results from a baseline assessment of the PSNP Plus project in Sire and Dodota woreda’s in the Oromiya region of Ethiopia. These assessments are part of…

Baseline and Mid-term Assessment of the PSNP Plus Project in Doba

This report presents the findings of the first two stages of an assessment of the PSNP Plus project in Doba woreda in West Hararghe. These assessments are part of a…

Impact Assessment of the Community Animal Health System in Mandera West District, Kenya

This report examines the impact of a privatized, community-based veterinary service in the far northeast of Kenya, and focuses on the outcomes of clinical services provided by community-based animal health workers (CAHWs).

Livelihoods-based Drought Response in Ethiopia

This impact assessment aimed to measure the impact of an emergency livestock feed supplementation program implemented by Save the Children US during drought in pastoralist communities in Liben district (Guji…

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Productive Safety Net Program (PSNP) Plus

BRIDGES

The BRIDGES project aimed to strengthen the capacity of state and non-state actors in the Somali region of Ethiopia to promote peace and stability through the delivery of quality education.