Enhancing Evidence for Humanitarian Action

The Enhancing Evidence for Humanitarian Action activity aims to provide USAID’s BHA, its partners, and the broader humanitarian community with indicators and methods for measuring the impact of investments in early warning, Disaster Risk Reduction, and climate adaptation programming. The project draws on UA’s strength in interdisciplinary science to research indicators and methods for measuring behavior and landscape change through recurrent monitoring, remote sensing and earth observation, and qualitative inquiry. 

The Principal Investigator is Zack Guido, the Director of the Arizona Institute for Resilient Environments and Societies (AIRES), International Programs and Assistant Research Professor, School of Natural Resources and Environment. Team members include Alex Braithwaite from the School of Government and Public Policy; Jeff Michler and Anna Josephson from the Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics; Beth Tellman from the School of Geography, Development, and Environment; Corrie Hannah from AIRES; and Tim Finan from the School of Anthropology. The project team includes the Tucson-based consulting firm Technical Assistance for NGOs (TANGO).