Informing and influencing

Alongside our research and capacity development activities, we inform, engage and influence practitioners and policymakers by convening inclusive dialogues, fostering partnerships and building consensus on necessary policies and interventions.

Such engagement to create partnerships, share learning, identify gaps in knowledge, build consensus and prioritize actions is a key to achieving our vision. Our core convening activity is through a Community of Practice that unites data, science and practice to identify, prioritize and deliver action research, learning and innovation.

Through our Community of Practice that brings together groups such as humanitarian agencies, agricultural specialists, climate scientists and food security experts, alongside policymakers, private sector representatives and local communities, we explore pathways for early warning and anticipatory action that can mitigate and address the confluence of crises facing pastoralists and dryland communities.