Sudanese refugees in Egypt—particularly women—are highly vulnerable. Many are employed informally in domestic work, where they are isolated, face little to no labor protections, and are often subject to exploitation. Their undocumented or precarious legal...

Gender-based violence has long been weaponised in conflict settings; today, the widespread availability of digital technology has made this issue even more pervasive and its consequences for victims more severe. We propose to pilot both a scalable intervention...

This study assesses the potential transformative role of digital tools for screening and delivering mental health services in conflict-affected regions. It will take place in Bukavu and Goma, the two largest cities in Eastern Democratic Republic of Congo...

Addressing the psychological effects of violence in complex, resource-constrained settings requires innovative approaches, particularly where mental health workforce capacity is limited. In response, integrated programming combining livelihoods and mental...

This project evaluates the scale-up of Semillas de Apego, a community-based psychosocial program designed to restore caregiver mental health and protect early childhood development in conflict-affected and displaced communities. The program targets caregivers...

This study, "Digital Education Tools in Crisis Environments: A Pilot Study in Afghanistan," aims to assess the feasibility as well as potential benefits and limitations of two innovative educational technologies—Ideas Cube and Kajou Cards—distributed by...

The ICRC has promoted respect for International Humanitarian Law (IHL) in Colombia since 1969, working to ensure that its prohibitions—including those against sexual violence—are integrated into the doctrine and training of both state and non-state weapons...

Does training in IHL among combatants protect civilians? Is its effect amplified by a values-based intervention? Can perspective-taking, designed to promote empathy, reduce civilian abuse? IHL/value-based interventions and perspec- tive taking program...

Because of intense civil conflict ongoing since 2021, Myanmar is now ranked among the most heavily landmine-contaminated countries in the world (UNICEF). We propose to evaluate the impacts of a landmine education program across Myanmar using a cluster...

Providing foundational learning is a core development goal, yet 27 million children worldwide face disruptions in formal schooling due to conflict. This deprivation perpetuates the marginalization of vulnerable groups, particularly women, limiting their...

Haiti has faced a series of crises, from earthquakes to social unrest, that left 700,000 people internally displaced and 5.4 million facing severe food insecurity (UNICEF, 2024). Education rates are the lowest in the Western hemisphere, with those not in...

Armed conflicts have displaced thousands of households and put millions of Nigerians in the internally displaced persons’ (IDP) camps in the last 10 years. As supply of food, healthcare and shelter run short of their demands, people in the IDP camps continue...

The mental health conditions of women in Internally Displaced Persons (IDP) camps is of crucial interest to policy makers because of the negative impact of their mental health condition on long term health outcomes, labour market participation and social...

This proposal seeks to generate rigorous empirical evidence on an understudied but increasingly prevalent form of violence while also evaluating potential mechanisms to protect remote, vulnerable communities from harm. These goals align directly with the...

Gender-based violence (GBV) not only violates fundamental human rights, but also has numerous long-lasting adverse impacts on women and girls, including poor physical, mental, and sexual and reproductive health, as well as economic and social disadvantage...

Several interventions have been made by the studies related to the issues of GBV and conflicts in Burkina Faso. Experimental evidence compares the effects of mass media and messages on contraception through a two-level RCT (Glennerster et al., 2022). Béné et...

One in every three women worldwide has experienced gender-based violence (GBV) in her lifetime. GBV has critical adverse effects on women's physical, mental, sexual, and reproductive well-being (WHO, 2021) and contributes to women becoming economically...

The persistent conflict between farmers and herders in many regions poses a significant policy problem, threatening food security, social stability, and economic development. These conflicts often arise from competition over scarce resources such as land and...

Modern armed conflict is increasingly characterized by the use of explosive weapons against civilian populations, creating new injury patterns with need for rapid first aid close to the point of injury. In many places where these injuries occur, formal trauma...

In conflict-affected countries, women often depend on public services for basic needs, safety, and livelihoods, exposing them to corruption risks, especially where legal protections and enforcement are weakened. A particularly harmful form of corruption, and...

Children associated with armed forces and armed groups (CAAFAG) represent an egregious violation of human rights which impedes their long-term wellbeing and overall peacebuilding and development efforts in the aftermath of conflict. Despite the critical...