Between March 2019 and March 2021, thirteen of the DEC’s member agencies responded to the Cyclone Idai disaster in Malawi, Mozambique and Zimbabwe. 

This report draws together lessons, good practice and challenges from members’ reports, external evaluations and other documents, framed around four of the Core Humanitarian Standard’s Commitments.

The purpose of this meta-synthesis is to learn lessons from the actions in the affected countries for future similar responses, in Southern Africa and elsewhere.

This study views the overall work of DEC members within a larger context, and from that, to identify lessons for future action.