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Explore case studies, impact evaluations, reports, and other technical documents about our programmes. Learn about our research partnerships, and please contact us if you have any questions.

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Overcoming the Trust Deficit

This report argues that in order to break the vicious cycle of pervasive mistrust in both vaccines and government actors, it is necessary to overcome the trust deficit between communities and the actors who will be leading vaccine rollout.

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Understanding the Links Between Social Cohesion and Violence

This brief presents an analysis of baseline data from Mercy Corps’ USAID-funded Preventing Violent Extremism Actions through increased social cohesion Efforts project, being implemented in the Tillabéri region of Niger.

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Connectivity Research

Together with the Signal Program at Harvard Humanitarian Initiative, Mercy Corps has put together a package of research, guidance toolkit and accompanying white paper for teams looking to implement WiFi.

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26 February 2021

One Year On: Paying for Darkness

This paper summarizes the outputs of a short evaluation undertaken in early 2020 to assess the intervention’s impact, and extract learning for future interventions.

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14 January 2021

The Climate Crisis Demands Local-level Financing and Action

The Zurich Flood Resilience Alliance is calling for improvements to climate finance, with a focus on getting more funding to the community level.

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07 January 2021

The Zurich Flood Resilience Alliance is calling for an urgent shift in disaster risk management (DRM), from post-event action towards forward-looking resilience planning.