Applied Research and Analysis
Problem-driven, decision-oriented research and analytics to inform policy, programming, and investment decisions. We prioritize relevance, clarity and usability for decision makers rather than academic outputs alone.
Core Analytics We Deliver (Aligned with ALAAPS s Four Pillars)
Pillar 1: Climate Risk, Resilience & Disaster Risk Reduction
Multi-hazard climate risk analysis and vulnerability assessment
ALAAPS conducts multi-hazard climate risk and vulnerability analysis to understand not only where risks occur, but what they mean for different households and livelihood systems. This includes risk profiling, hotspot mapping, and vulnerability segmentation across geographies, wealth groups, and livelihood systems, with integrated GESI and institutional analysis.
ALAAPS uses Household Economy Analysis (HEA) to translate climate exposure into household-level impacts on food access, income, and essential expenditure, enabling analysis of compounding and cascading risks, seasonality and timing of shocks, spatial inequality, and resilience capacities.
ALAAPS delivers early warning and trigger analytics that connect climate and hazard signals to decision-relevant household outcomes, supporting anticipatory action and risk-informed decision-making. This includes historical hazard–impact analysis, trigger calibration, lead-time evaluation, and decision threshold setting.
ALAAPS undertakes forward-looking scenario analysis and stress testing to explore how drought, flood, market, conflict, and compound shocks affect households, livelihoods, and systems under different conditions.
ALAAPS analyses climate–security linkages to understand how climate stress interacts with livelihood disruption, resource competition, displacement, and conflict dynamics.
Pillar 2: Natural Capital and Ecosystems
Drylands and fragile environment analysis
ALAAPS provides applied analysis and advisory support on natural capital and ecosystem systems, with a focus on drylands and fragile environments where livelihoods, climate risk, and resource governance intersect.
- Rangeland and drylands system analytics: vegetation and pasture conditions, grazing pressure, land degradation drivers
- Water and land systems analysis: water access, watershed dynamics, land-use and land-cover change
- Coastal and blue economy diagnostics: coastal livelihoods and resource use analysis
- Ecosystem services and nature-based solutions (NbS): feasibility and benefits analysis
- Natural resource governance: resource tenure, access rules, management arrangements
- Environmental risk screening: rapid identification of environmental sensitivities
Pillar 3: Rural Economy, Livelihoods and Food Systems
Household Economy Analysis (HEA) as core framework
ALAAPS s work on rural and urban economies is anchored in Household Economy Analysis (HEA) as a core framework for understanding how households earn income, access food and essential services, manage risk, and cope with shocks.
- Household Economy Analysis (HEA): baseline livelihood profiling and seasonal analysis across rural and urban contexts
- Resilience analysis: absorptive, adaptive, and transformative capacities within household economies
- Livelihood, labour, and urban economy dynamics: rural and urban livelihood systems analysis
- Food systems diagnostics: rural–urban food system linkages and nutrition pathways
- Market, trade, and value chain analytics: price monitoring, market functionality assessment
- Market Systems Development (MSD): how market systems function for different livelihood groups
- Access to finance: household access to financial services and inclusion analysis
- Cash and response analytics: transfer value analysis, MEB analysis, CVA feasibility
Pillar 4: Energy Access and Green Economy Transition
System constraints, risks, and opportunities analysis
ALAAPS provides analytical and advisory support on energy access and green economy transition, with a focus on understanding system constraints, risks, and opportunities in fragile and low-capacity contexts.
- Energy access and power sector diagnostics: energy access gaps, demand patterns, affordability constraints
- Renewable energy and green economy transition: risks and opportunities of clean and decentralized energy solutions
- Environmental and social risk advisory: environmental and social risk screening and mitigation
- Policy and decision-making support: synthesis of evidence to inform energy strategies
Typical outputs: analytical briefs; risk and opportunity notes; diagnostic summaries; scenario notes; datasets and indicator packs; decision memos