SHEAR impact stories 2022

The Science for Humanitarian Emergencies and Resilience programme (SHEAR) has been championing reducing disaster risk since 2016/2017. Funded by the United Kingdom’s Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office (FCDO) and Natural Environment Research Council (NERC UKRI), SHEAR involved unique interdisciplinary collaboration among practitioners and humanitarians that looked at ways to improve our understanding of climate-related risks as well as forecasts and early warning systems, in parallel with enhancing humanitarian actions to reduce this risk.

SHEAR focused primarily on working in Sub-Saharan African and South Asian countries. Bridging science and humanitarian practice has proved highly rewarding, offering many advances in the early warning of landslides, for example, and forecast-based action for hydrometeorological hazard. The project ended this year; this report offers an overview of several impacts that the SHEAR programme has had over the years. These are but a few examples of this legacy.