How the Airbel Impact Lab is focusing our efforts in a shifting landscape — With 79.5 million people displaced around the world, we were already facing an unprecedented crisis before COVID-19 hit. Already before the pandemic, crucial, life-saving interventions weren’t reaching enough people. Too many children don’t have access to quality education. And many suffer from malnutrition, likely facing irreversible damage to their physical…

The Georg Arnhold Scholarship, a partnership between the IRC’s Airbel Impact Lab and the Georg Eckert Institute’s Georg Arnhold Program on Education for Sustainable Peace, was established in 2020 to bridge the gap between research and practice. Through this initiative, selected researchers work closely with IRC staff in undertaking work…

The IRC and the Zolberg Institute on Migration and Mobility at The New School are excited to announce the fall 2021 cohort of fellows. Supported by the Arnhold Foundation, master’s and doctoral students at The New School have the opportunity to contribute or lead design and research projects at…

Innovations to expand opportunities and accessibility for remote learning — For some, the Covid-19 pandemic has caused a dramatic shift to distanced learning, relying heavily on technological innovations to supplement the in-person educational experience. But in many parts of the globe, this has always been the norm. With digital devices becoming cheaper and easier to manufacture, they have become more…

Insights from online workshops with IRC teams in Syria, Pakistan, Niger and South Sudan — How does a prolonged drought affect a farmer in a remote province in Pakistan, versus another in conflict-stricken Syria? What about the subsistence farmer in South Sudan or Niger, who has saved seeds for the next season, but ends up consuming those in times of need? Remote rural farming communities…

How inclusive and accessible research processes provides critical insight Family violence is a major public health and human rights issue, with an estimated 30% of women worldwide experiencing intimate partner violence in their lifetime and half of the world’s children experiencing child abuse. …

The IRC and the Zolberg Institute on Migration and Mobility at The New School are excited to announce the summer 2021 cohort of fellows. …

The Georg Arnhold Scholarship, a partnership between the IRC’s Airbel Impact Lab and the Georg Eckert Institute’s Georg Arnhold Program on Education for Sustainable Peace, was established to bridge the gap between research and practice. Through this initiative, selected researchers work closely with IRC staff in undertaking work to further…

The complex and protracted nature of the COVID-19 crisis calls for a comprehensive and dynamic approach to humanitarian finance. — COVID-19 has sparked a complex, multifaceted, and likely protracted global humanitarian crisis. In the most fragile contexts this could mean years of spikes in health, economic, and other risks related to the virus and associated containment measures. …