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Rapid change and standstill: Peacemaking, Covid-19 and rumours in South Sudan
Full summary Information and rumours have a powerful effect on people's lives. They shape how people experience their environments and view their position in life, and give meaning to the forces that...
Uganda + 1 more
Coercion and control: How information and individuality intersect for South Sudanese refugees in Uganda, March 2021
Full summary Information is a powerful tool, and having access to information can be a lifeline. Being able to gather information is crucial for decision-making, shaping how people experience the...
Three things SLRC teaches us about supporting a shift from fragility to resilience
Full summary For international engagement in settings affected by conflict and fragility, three themes emerge prominently from ten years of SLRC research. We need to improve our understanding of: the...
Afghanistan + 4 more
Summary of key findings from Phase II (2017-2020)
About us The Secure Livelihoods Research Consortium (SLRC) is a global research programme exploring basic services and social protection in conflict‑affected situations. Funded by UK aid from the UK...
Adapting through Covid-19: October 2020 lessons from teenage pregnancy programmes in Sierra Leone
Introduction Sierra Leone has one of the highest rates of teenage pregnancy in the world: 28% of girls between the ages of 15 and 19 have children (UNFPA, 2019). There is evidence that this high...
Afghanistan + 4 more
Paradoxes in livelihood interventions: A synthesis of evidence from selected conflict-affected areas in Africa and Asia
By Vagisha Gunasekara Executive Summary This synthesis paper is a product of a long-term research commitment to generate a body of evidence on the changing nature of people’s livelihoods in conflict...
The mental landscape of post-conflict life in northern Uganda Part 5: Rethinking idleness, risk‑taking and agency
Written by Suleiman Amanela, Tracy Flora Ayee, Stephanie Buell, Alice Escande, Tony Quinlan, Anouk S. Rigterink, Mareike Schomerus, Samuel Sharp, and Sarah Swanson Executive Summary The violent...
The mental landscape of post-conflict life in northern Uganda Part 4: Rethinking inclusion and fairness
Written by Suleiman Amanela, Tracy Flora Ayee, Stephanie Buell, Alice Escande, Tony Quinlan, Anouk S. Rigterink, Mareike Schomerus, Samuel Sharp, Sarah Swanson Executive Summary The violent conflict...
The mental landscape of post-conflict life in northern Uganda Part 3: Rethinking collaboration and good behaviour
Written by Suleiman Amanela, Tracy Flora Ayee, Stephanie Buell, Alice Escande, Tony Quinlan, Anouk S. Rigterink, Mareike Schomerus, Samuel Sharp, Sarah Swanson Executive Summary The violent conflict...
The mental landscape of post-conflict life in northern Uganda Part 2: Defining the mental landscape
Written by Suleiman Amanela, Tracy Flora Ayee, Stephanie Buell, Alice Escande, Tony Quinlan, Anouk S. Rigterink, Mareike Schomerus, Samuel Sharp, Sarah Swanson Executive Summary The violent conflict...
The mental landscape of post-conflict life in northern Uganda Part 1: Research on behaviour and post-conflict life in northern Uganda – the research design
Written by Suleiman Amanela, Tracy Flora Ayee, Stephanie Buell, Alice Escande, Tony Quinlan, Anouk S. Rigterink, Mareike Schomerus, Samuel Sharp, Sarah Swanson Executive Summary The violent conflict...
Adaptation in practice: lessons from teenage pregnancy programmes in Sierra Leone
Authors: Clare Castillejo and Stephanie Buell Key messages: Partners under this action research project – Concern, International Rescue Committee (IRC), and Save the Children – are trialling...
School’s out: Why northern Uganda’s girls and boys are not getting an education and what to do about it
Teddy Atim, Dyan Mazurana and Anastasia Marshak Full summary In northern Uganda, active armed conflict disrupted children and young people’s access to education from the early 1980s until 2007. Yet...
World + 6 more
What matters to people when recovering from conflict
Mareike Schomerus, Stephanie Buell, Aoife McCullough, Vagisha Gunesekara, George Richards Full summary This booklet provides a short introduction to the Secure Livelihoods Research Consortium and an...
Defining and identifying IDPs outside of camps in South Kivu: Challenges, contradictions and consequences
Full summary Through two decades of conflict and a complex humanitarian response, internally displaced persons (IDPs) have been at the core of assistance in eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo...
‘We are all IDPs’ - Vulnerability and livelihoods in Mugunga 3 camp, Goma, Democratic Republic of the Congo
Gloria Nguya Full summary Thousands of IDPs remain in many camps across North Kivu, Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC). This working paper explores the experiences of internally displaced persons...
Pathways to women’s empowerment: Navigating the hybrid social order in eastern DRC
Patrick M. Kyamusugulwa, Dorothea Hilhorst and Sylvia I. Bergh Full summary The United Nations’ Agenda 2030 aims to achieve gender equality as part of the 5th Sustainable Development Goal (SDG). Yet,...
Reviewing DRC’s poverty estimates, 2005-2012: Unprecedented GDP growth without trickle down
Wim Marivoet, Tom De Herdt and John Ulimwengu Full summary The first decade of the Democractic Republic of the Congo’s (DRC) post-conflict reconstruction period (2004-2013) was marked by an...
The state of the war-wounded in Northern Uganda: Data from 2013-2018 on their lives and access to healthcare
Dyan Mazurana, Anastasia Marshak and Teddy Atim Full summary Few large-scale, structured surveys have been conducted on the prevalence of alleged war crimes or crimes against humanity committed by...