Projects

In crises situations, many actors aim to support people and communities. These efforts range from short-term humanitarian assistance…

This project studies the impacts of a social safety net intervention in refugee and their host communities of…

This project studies the gendered impacts of armed conflict on individuals’ participation in agri-food systems. Agri-food systems encompass…

How can we build resilience in places where people need it the most? Assistance programs at the Humanitarian–Development–Peacebuilding…

Mental health is central to well-being as well as an important determinant and outcome of economic behavior. This…

How can women be better mobilized to participate in consultative processes that would likely improve public services provision?…

When peace agreements are reached, they often define a set of stipulations that need to be implemented in…

Peace negotiations, almost inherently, involve imbalances and inequalities between the actors involved (e.g. national governments versus non-government violent…

The resettlement of refugees in new regions has long been linked with the onset of social tensions and…

There is great potential that peace can be supported and built through economic development programming, such as those…

The overall objective of this study is to generate a solid evidence base of Mercy Corps Kyrgyzstan’s McGovern-Dole…

This project will develop new rigorous evidence about the effectiveness of peacebuilding strategies utilized by the UN Peacebuilding…

The overall objective of this project is to study gendered dimensions of livelihoods in the context of protracted forced…

The overall objective of this project is to study gendered dimensions of livelihoods in the context of forced displacement…

Funded by the Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF), Life with Corona in Africa project aims to generate…

This project will address the long-term development challenges associated with the forced displacement that is a result, particularly,…

The MENA region is characterized by several interrelated socio-economic trends including rapidly growing populations, on average high degrees…

In this project, we study a complex agricultural intervention in a protracted crisis setting. We use innovative quantitative methods to analyse impact magnitudes, pathways and interactions of different intervention components across multiple local contexts and on multiple outcomes.

An impact evaluation to study the economic, behavioural and institutional impacts of FAO's smallholder support programme in Syria.

A multi-partner project that seeks to provide new theoretical insights and empirical evidence on how various forms of trust shape the relationship between economic inequality and governance.

A Mercy Corps-funded study into the effects of nutrition on health and education among Kyrgyz children, and the causal impacts of the McGovern-Dole Food for Education and Child Nutrition Program on these outcomes.