Project Background Burkina Faso, Chad, Ethiopia, and Niger are highly vulnerable to drought, a challenge that is recently intensifying due to climate change. Combined with other shocks such as political instability, security threats, and insurgent activities, these countries face a complex interplay of crises that severely impact lives and livelihoods. Anticipatory Action approaches are aimed […]
Project Background Sudan is facing a severe humanitarian crisis as ongoing violent conflict has led to widespread food insecurity, limited access to essential services, and displacement. The situation is especially serious in Darfur, where half the population depended on humanitarian aid even before the war. The joint programme by WFP and UNICEF aims to provide […]
Project Background Syria is facing multiple overlapping crises, including the prolonged effects of war, recurrent droughts, soaring inflation and political instability. These challenges have severely disrupted agricultural production and local livelihoods, leaving many farming communities struggling to recover. In response, ILRS is implementing targeted agricultural interventions aimed at strengthening local resilience and enhancing farmers’ capacity […]
ISDC is partnering with Evidence Central Asia to implement a research project in Kyrgyzstan, assessing the existing social assistance program for poor households.
Project Background In 2022, the World Bank Group launched the Invest in Childcare initiative to drive investments in high-quality and affordable childcare. Expanding access to such childcare is among the most important investments countries can make to build human capital, accelerate gender equality, and place women and children at the center of economic growth. Over […]
Project Background Climate change poses a serious threat to food security in the Kyrgyz Republic, particularly for poor and vulnerable households. Specifically, effective adaptation in the agricultural sector is increasingly recognized as a critical policy component for reducing vulnerability and mitigating adverse climatic impacts. Improvements in smallholder agricultural systems have the potential to address food […]
ISDC is studying activities related to bringing victims of armed conflict and other situations of violence rapid and flexible assistance to cover their essential needs and unavoidable expenditures in sustainable ways that respect their dignity.
Strengthening social protection in complex humanitarian settings is a top priority for policy-makers and practitioners. This project will generate relevant evidence from two reseach studies.
The goal of ISDC’s work in Bentiu is to measure the development of behavioral and welfare outcomes of internally displaced households in light of shocks and humanitarian assistance, specifically anticipatory one-off cash transfers (in anticipation of floods), by regularly following up with the same 1,200 households.
The primary aim of this impact evaluation is to identify, quantify, and rigorously assess different targeting approaches for WFP Lebanon’s food assistance program in Lebanon.
To enhance the understanding of how food systems respond to shocks and to inform public policy that can strengthen their capacity to manage such crises, this project aims to develop an analytical framework specifically tailored to measure food system resilience in fragile situations, using Sudan as a case study.
In this project, we study the gendered long-term impacts of conflict exposure on social behavior and economic well-being among Iraqi and Syrian refugees in Jordan.
This research aims to delve into the intersection of armed conflict and climate change, exploring how conflict and climate events jointly shape socio-economic outcomes with a particular focus on gender and age disparities.
FCDO has commissioned ISDC to conduct a rigorous impact assessment for the Year 2 ‘Building Local Resilience In Syria’ intervention activities.
PeaceFIELD2 aims to – through a series of impact evaluations in Latin America and Sub-Saharan Africa – close a knowledge gap on what type of peacebuilding interventions work where.
Project Background Armed conflict reverses human development, yet its full impact remains poorly understood due to fragmented research across disciplines. This multidisciplinary project integrates economics, epidemiology, political science, and conflict studies to assess conflict’s effects on economies, health, and political institutions, using a risk-analysis framework to model hazard, exposure, and vulnerability while expanding early-warning systems […]
Project background Youth unemployment is a key development and social challenge in fragile places. Not only does fragility harm opportunities within, but high numbers of idle young people can contribute to fragility. To overcome this concern, SPARK has implemented the LEAD 2 program in Somalia and Tunisia – a program designed to help young entrepreneurs […]
