Humanitarian Action & Climate

Climate change, environmental degradation, and protracted armed conflict are converging to foster unprecedented crises worldwide. Extreme weather events intensify humanitarian needs, while conflict drives ecosystem destruction, creating vicious cycles of instability.

However, due to unequal systems of power and entrenched colonial legacies, some populations experience greater crisis impacts and vulnerability than others. Shared Planet’s Humanitarian Action & Climate practice specialises in nexus-based approaches that address the deep-rooted social, economic, political, and environmental inequities exacerbating vulnerability in fragile and crisis-affected settings.

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Within this rapidly evolving landscape, marginalised groups, particularly frontline communities, Indigenous Peoples, youth, women, gender and sexual minorities face compounded challenges during crises. Our work is grounded in feminist and decolonial principles and recognises the differential impacts of climate change, environmental degradation, and humanitarian crises as deeply gendered and intersectional, thus requiring approaches that foreground the voices and agency of those most affected.

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Driven by our principles, and wider commitments to social, climate and gender justice, we seek to uplift those most affected and support effective, sustainable, community-driven solutions that protect both people and ecosystems.

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We offer clients a range of services, including:

• Insights-led Research & Analysis: Conducting desk-based reviews, policy research and analysis, stakeholder and infrastructure mappings, gender- and climate-sensitive context analyses. We translate key research into actionable et strategic recommendations to humanitarian actors, adopting a political economy analytical approach (power, resources, incentives) to understand drivers of crises and vulnerability.
   

• Multi-stakeholder Engagement: Facilitating participatory workshops, advisory panels, dissemination events, validation sessions, and strategic dialogues that bring together humanitarian, development, and other relevant actors. We manage networks, coordinate partnerships and provide strategic direction to multi-stakeholder platforms, including with frontline communities, to ensure locally-grounded, context-specific solutions that deliver concrete benefits for those most affected by crises.
   

• Integrated Monitoring, Evaluation, Accountability and Learning (MEAL): Evaluating humanitarian and development programmes, including through needs assessments, programme and impact evaluations, organisational review, adopting decolonial, gender-transformative and climate-sensitive approaches to organisational learning.
   

• Practical Guidance: Translating research findings into practical tools, including best practices repositories, guidance notes, toolkits, and orientation papers for practitioners. We create knowledge products that respond to the strategic needs of our clients and their partners.
   

• Strategic Communications & Advocacy: Translating research into advocacy materials such as position papers, policy briefs, communication packages, thought leadership. We develop fit-for-purpose advocacy strategies for organisations seeking to drive progressive change.
   

• Data-Driven Analysis: Leveraging statistical analysis, geospatial imagery, and integrated risk modelling to produce climate-conflict risk assessments, ecosystem vulnerability mapping, and humanitarian needs analysis. Translating data into strategic insights, we generate actionable recommendations that support decision-making in crisis preparedness, response and recovery.