Publications

Final Impact Report of FAO's Violence Against Women and Girls (VAWG) pilot interventions Executive Summary Background:…

Final Impact Report of the Syria Resilience Initiative's (SRI) Violence Against Women and Girls (VAWG) Intervention…

Political violence (the use of force by groups for political motives) adversely affects children and youth,…

Those who seek to make and build peace have a number of tools at their disposal.…

Alongside health, peace is a fundamental prerequisite for human development. However, it seems infinitely more difficult…

The COVID-19 pandemic caused extensive food insecurity in low-income countries. However, most studies rely on aggregate-level…

Climate and conflict crises increasingly occur together, creating compounded risks for household food security. This review…

Heat waves and droughts are each highly damaging to people’s incomes, but little is known of…

International estimates of intimate partner violence (IPV) among adolescents and young women are high, indicating the…

Polycrises created by violent conflict and climate change are ubiquitous. Yet, the impacts of conflict and…

An increasing proportion of the world’s poor live in fragile states, and efforts to build economic…

For almost a decade, the UN Secretary-General’s Peacebuilding Fund (PBF), and its implementing partners, have worked…

The COVID-19 pandemic caused extensive food insecurity in low-income countries. However, most studies rely on aggregate-level…

Households living in humanitarian settings face extreme vulnerability to adverse shocks. Cash transfers can reduce this…

This study examines the impact of countermeasures, such as stay-at-home orders and school closures, on stress…

When refugees flee abroad, they carry the legacy of their traumatic experiences across borders. While there…

This paper provides evidence on the impacts of armed conflict and climate change on individual labor…

When refugees flee violent conflict, they carry the legacies of their experiences across borders. Using representative survey data from refugees living in Jordan, we examine how pre-displacement exposure to violent conflict shapes the long-term social well-being of refugees.

Social norms are crucial drivers of human behavior. However, misperceptions of others’ opinions may sustain norms…

This paper studies the social protection of refugees during a pandemic. A pandemic adds to the…

This paper provides empirical micro-level evidence on the gendered impacts of armed conflict on economic activity…