👋👋 Event: Building the #resilience & prosperity of pastoralists & #dryland communities We’ll be driving policy & programming change to support #pastoralists livelihoods at an event w/ partners Jameel Observatory for Food Security Early Action & @IGAD_ICPALD on October 1-2 in Nairobi ➡️: bit.ly/46TRyuP

📢 NEW BRIEF: Are you a donor funding research on women’s empowerment in fragile & conflict-affected regions? ♀️Read our new brief on key lessons from locally led action research on women’s empowerment in the #drylands of #Nigeria & #South Sudan: bit.ly/3Kcbdxr

👋 NEW BLOG: Are you working on or funding #research in regions facing #climate & #conflict? Here are three things you need to know about how adaptive collaboration helps rigorous research in tough environments: bit.ly/3JZKKD9 Mercy Corps EDI Global @FCDO Dan Bunter

People in the drylands of Africa & the Middle East are experts at navigating change. They thrive - when given the chance. 🎧Listen to experts on #DynamicDrylands navigate some of the toughest questions in development. If you work in development, you're going to want to listen.

📢📢Event: Are you at the CGIAR #gender #equality & inclusion conference 2025 in Cape Town? Don’t miss our panel ‘SPARC insights for shifting social norms to enhance resource access and #resilience in drylands’ on Thurs Oct 9 at 1.30pm local time in Room 9 We’ll share evidence

Seminar Thurs, Oct 9: Join this event on ‘The mixed resilience outcomes of water interventions in the Horn of Africa #drylands’ w/ partners the Jameel Observatory for Food Security Early Action & Rift Valley Institute Be part of the debate w/ Jackson Wachira & Nancy Balfour from the Centre for Humanitarian Change:

How are people living in the drylands of Africa and the Middle East coping with crises - and what kind of support do they need? 🎧Listen to our new series of Dynamic Drylands. Over five episodes, we interview experts from NGOs, think tanks, businesses and more, about some of the

👋 EVENT TODAY: Are you at the CGIAR #gender #equality & inclusion conference 2025 in Cape Town? Don’t miss our panel ‘SPARC insights for shifting social norms to enhance resource access and resilience in drylands’ today/ Thurs, Oct 9 at 1.30pm local time in Room 9 We’ll

📣 NEW REPORT: Women in farmer-herder conflicts: Case studies from Sudan and Nigeria ♀️ What are the experiences of women in farmer-herder #conflicts in #drylands? How does insecurity affect them & how can they be supported to become #resilient? Don't miss our report 👉 :

📣📣NEW report: Youth in farmer-herder conflicts: Case studies from Sudan and Nigeria Youth continue to be overlooked in research about farmer-herder #conflict in Africa’s #drylands This new report explores how they’re affected by #insecurity, the roles they have in conflict &

👋 👋 Are you a journalist or editor in Nigeria reporting on farmers & pastoralists? Check out our new ‘Media guide and toolkit on pastoralism in Nigeria’ w/ @FUDECONG for useful tools to make your reporting on pastoralists accurate & informed: bit.ly/3LcRL3K

📢Now online: Charting New Paths in Africa's Drylands Ahead of #IYRP2026, new documentary shines a spotlight on pastoralism – one of the most critical, but marginalised livelihoods in Africa – and paints a rarely seen picture of the dynamism of people living in the drylands.

👋 EVENT: Don’t miss this @SPARCIdeas – Jameel Observatory for Food Security Early Action in-person/ online seminar on the 'State and the politics of community land reform' from 2pm-4pm EAT on Wed Oct 22 W/ Achiba A. Gargule Feinstein International Center we’ll explore how shadow #governance reconfigures authority & access in

📻Who's listening to the radio? SPARC lead researcher Carmen Jaquez was featured on ChannelAfrica's Rise and Shine show, talking about SPARC's new documentary. Carmen stressed how: ➡️"Pastoralists provide up to 80% of the meat we eat in African cities" - they are resilient,

🐄 Pastoralists produce a huge amount of the meat and milk Africans consume. Yet #pastoralism is increasingly treated as a problem in Africa’s drylands: perceived as old-fashioned, low-tech and incompatible with modern-day development. 🎧 In this new episode of #DynamicDrylands,

⏰ EVENT TOMORROW: Don’t miss this @SPARCIdeas – Jameel Observatory for Food Security Early Action in-person/online seminar on the 'State and the politics of community land reform' from 2pm-4pm EAT tomorrow/ Wed Oct 22 W/ Achiba A. Gargule Feinstein International Center we’ll explore how shadow #governance reconfigures

Twelve ways to take #anticipatoryaction to scale in conflicts and recurring crises "why the main models used ... for planning anticipatory action show limited promise in difficult places" A brief from our partners at SPARC_Ideas sparc-knowledge.org/publications-r…

Ten ways to create people-centred early warning systems in conflicts and recurrent crises Beyond warnings, SPARC_Ideas say "people-centred EWS must maximise the chances that people will receive, understand, interact with, trust and act" on information sparc-knowledge.org/publications-r…

📢 NEW digital resource: The impact of #conflict on rural #markets in Sudan How & when should #humanitarian aid be delivered in regions scarred by conflict? This digital Story Map uses #satellite imagery, photos & analysis to look at the impact of conflict on rural markets in