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Issue 86

Climate change adaptations in humanitarian programming

Over the last few years, humanitarian actors have increasingly engaged with the challenge of climate change. In a world already…
March 18, 2025
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Building weather resilience in Mali
A journey of anticipatory action – early response to heatwaves in Pakistan
The case of women and climate change in Northern Kenya

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Humanitarian AI revisited: Seizing the potential and sidestepping the pitfalls

A great deal has changed since Humanitarian AI: the hype, the hope and the future was published in November 2021.…
May 7, 2024
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