Three years into the conflict, Sudan remains the world’s largest humanitarian and displacement crisis with over 33 million people in need of humanitarian assistance in 2026, almost two third of the population. The conflict has triggered large-scale displacement, economic collapse, disruption of essential services and widespread food insecurity and protection risks. Several distinct sub-crises have emerged, from an acute humanitarian catastrophe in Darfur and Kordofan, to fragile recovery in the central corridor, emerging threats in the southern states, and growing cumulative strain on the eastern corridor. Across all four contexts, the diversity of drivers, needs, and recovery pathways makes differentiated, locally led area-based evidence and programming essential. 

To support humanitarian and development actors address this unprecedented level of life-threatening needs while also pushing for sustainable interventions that support community resilience, IMPACT’s work focuses on three objectives: 

1) Informing evidence-based strategic planning and prioritization of the response at national level by identifying the number of people in need ahead of the humanitarian planning cycle, conducting sectoral needs assessments, and monitoring prices and market condition to guide cash programming;  

2) Strengthening subnational information systems in the context of the emergencies with a focus on supporting new Area Based Coordination (ABC) structures;  

3) Supporting localized, sustainable and adaptive programming to enable early recovery through livelihood assessments, climate analyses and a cross-cutting localization efforts aimed at integrating local responders into key information and decision processes.