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Financial Services Development in Africa The Making Markets Work for the Poor (M4P) approach hinges on facilitation, rather than direct implementation, and as such, represents a radical shift in how donors envision and how development actors interact with financial systems. Although the theoretical frameworks for this approach are well developed, there is a comparative lack of detailed analysis regarding application in the financial sector.Significant questions remain how to apply M4P frameworks and tactics to fragile and conflict-affected states or conflict-affected regions within specific countries (i.e. Kenya and Uganda). Recognizing the large number of underserved populations and untapped potential, FSD Africa and forward-thinking donors are looking to explore the relevance and applicability of using a M4P approach for financial sector development in FCAS. Mercy Corps will provide guidance to FSDA on different approaches required between ‘fragile’ and ‘conflicted-affected’, and appropriate and realistic financial sector interventions in different stages of conflict: rapid on-set, active, latent, post-conflict and during the unpredictable casual chains between states of conflict as a crisis’s stabilizes or expands. We will also explore different strategy and tactics between conflict typologies (i.e. epidemic or climate-led, ethnic or political instability. Deliverables include a think piece and four complementary mini-studies on financial sector development work in fragile and conflict-affected states (FCAS) in Africa. The think piece and 4 case studies will be structured around these areas of investigation: 1. Define FCAS in different Africa contexts and detail why these contexts warrant attention and donor funds. 2. Define financial sector development in FCAS to qualify the demand and need for further investment in financial sector development. 3. Detail the unique nature of FCAS and the linkages between fragility on financial sector development and how underdevelopment of the financial sector can influence fragility and conflict. 4. Set the stage for future financial sector development in African FCAS based on past and current investments and the future for potential investments. This includes strategic operational prioritization and clear principles for success and recommendations for action by government and related agencies, the private sector, and financial market development donors. This also includes engagement with the African diaspora for remittances and investments.
Pal-Wasla: A Digitally-Enabled Borderless Palestinian Society The purpose of this project is to build positive, productive and enduring linkages between West Bank and Gazan (WB/G) technology, business and education sector leaders and participants as a foundation for greater social cohesion and unity across Palestine.
Seroja NTT Indonesia Cyclone Emergency Response (SINCERE) This is an emergency project funded by the Start Fund in response to the Seroja cyclone that occurred in Indonesia in April 2021. During the 45-day implementation of this project, the implementing partners will focus on meeting communities' lifesaving needs such as by providing clean water, hygiene and sanitation items, cash and voucher to meet immediate needs, as well as psychosocial support for children affected by the disaster. WVI targets Sumba Timur and Timor Tengah Selatan (TTS) for this project,  while Mercy Corps targets East Flores and CARE targets Alor and Kupang.
JUVENILE JUSTICE SYSTEM IN JORDAN Mitigate key drivers of social instability and violent conflict and engage at-risk youth in activities that strengthen their sense of identity, belonging and connections to their families and communities. Expected Result 1: Young people are engaged in an interactive future planning and personal development through access to a wider range of services and programmes. (Strand 1) Expected Result 2: Improved parent-child relationship through parenting programmes. (Strand 2) Expected Result 3: Community Action Hubs and Government of Jordan supported entities are able to better respond to long-term protection needs of at-risk youth. (Strand 3) 4,445 youth in Irbid, Ruseifeh, Ma’an governorates
IJMAA: Peacebuilding and Rapid Stabilisation through Solid Waste Management in Lebanon To reduce drivers of tension amongst and between Lebanese host communities, refugees and municipal authorities in Lebanon through fostering collaborative solutions to Solid Waste Management challenges, strengthening peace building mechanisms, and providing rapid stabilisation support.
Supporting the Education of Marginalised Girls in Kailali II (STEM II) Through improved education, increased opportunities for safe livelihoods and a supportive enabling environment, marginalised adolescent girls in Kailali District, Far Western Nepal will thrive as they transition from adolescence to adulthood. Supporting the Education of Marginalised Girls in Kailali II (STEM II) will support adolescent girls in this journey to transform their futures through innovative partnerships with girls, communities, and the public and private sectors. STEM II will support marginalised girls to complete secondary education; transition to safe work or vocational training (VT); increase incomes of those who own small businesses; and cultivate the life skills needed for increased self-agency.
Syncing Livelihoods with Market Strengthening To establish proof of concept that we can apply a market systems development approach (M4P) combined with innovation centers to enable economic opportunities, sustainable livelihoods and accelerate micro business growth for refugees and host communities in West Nile region.
Conflict management between Syrian refugees and host communities in Jordan Overall goal: Jordan most at-risk communities are able to manage current and emerging tensions and develop common solutions to immediate problems that threaten local social, political and economic stability:

Intermediate outcomes:

-	Local government, CBOs representatives and community leaders (in target communities) have increased capacity to identify sources of community tension, facilitate dialogues, and strengthen cooperation across lines of division
-	Local disputes are resolved non-violently through projects that address the underlying drivers of local instability and build social cohesion in targeted communities
-	The quantity, quality and reliability of water supply is improved, mitigating tensions over water in targeted communities through infrastructure upgrades Over the past 2 years Mercy Corps has successfully implemented the conflict management program funded by Conflict Pool Conflict Management for Syrian Refugees, Host Communities and Municipal Actors in Jordan’. Over 60,000 Syrians have been impacted by this project, and over 6,000 Syrians and Jordanians have been direct beneficiaries through participation in our programme activities. 

Building on the success of the current project Mercy Corps proposes a two year programme to build stronger communities by equipping community leaders, civil society and local government representatives with the skills necessary to identify and respond to sources of tension and through implementing community support projects addressing urgent community needs, including communal and water infrastructure, and service provision. Mercy Corps will continue supporting the current 12 communities through technical assistance and expanding community activities that bring together conflicting sides and promote social cohesion. This will be done through local CBOs with whom Mercy Corps have built strong relations and benefit from a large network. The local CBOs are held in high regard and trust amongst local communities, and planned organizational training with CBOs will strengthen their capacity to facilitate resilient relationships within the communities.  In addition, the program will build on the experience of the previous 2 years to identify 6 new communities at high risk of conflict in northern, central and southern governorates in the first year of the program and another 6 in the second year. Each new community will benefit from at least one infrastructure project identified through community consultation as well as community activities. 

To improve water quality (through treatment and purification), supply, and its reliability we will work with the Ministry of Water and Irrigation (MoWI) to rehabilitate water infrastructure, such as municipal water networks, wells and pump stations, leaking or undersized municipal distribution water lines, water reservoirs, prioritized by the GoJ in the Jordan Response Plan 2015.
Locally led, Inclusive and Versatile Emergency Support to Conflict Affected Populations in Ukraine and Poland (LIVES) 2.0 Follow on funding from the FCDO funded "Locally led, Inclusive and Versatile Emergency Support to Conflict Affected Populations in Ukraine and Poland (LIVES)" program in Ukraine.

The follow-on program will build upon successful implementation under LIVES, looking to scale MPCA support while further strengthening the capacity of local agencies.
DEEPENING DEMOCRACY PROGRAMME The program will enhance resilience of vulnerable households in West Pokot to climate extremes and disasters through a community-led, systems-driven approach aimed to improve public sector engagement and service delivery, increase community capacity to manage resources and prepare for disasters, and ultimately to secure resources and livelihoods. Mercy Corps believes that effective action to combat the effects of climate change will result when communities and the leaders who govern them are empowered with knowledge, systems and resources to undertake locally-driven planning processes to effectively manage natural resources, mitigate the impact of natural disasters, and manage conflict.
Improved Networks, Training and Jobs (INTAJ) Mercy Corps proposes a 12-month, ₤5 million programme to address economic and resource-driven tensions by focusing on short to medium-term interventions to provide livelihood support and promote social cohesion within the most vulnerable host and refugee populations to help contribute to greater stability in Tripoli and Bekaa Valley. The two regions have distinctly different factors that contribute to tension between the groups. In Tripoli, economic and social factors such as job competition, increase in rents, food insecurity and gender-based violence drive tensions between refugee and Lebanese communities. While in Bekaa, community tensions are driven primarily by pressures on available resources and services, specifically in solid waste collection and removal, affordable shelter, water, and electricity, as well as jobs. These tensions were exacerbated in April by the forced movement of refugees from Arsal into West Bekaa by the Lebanese Armed Forces (LAF). Under the proposed programme, Mercy Corps will implement the following tracks:

•	Track 1: Private sector-led skills development training and Micro-Small-Medium Enterprise (MSME) support for vulnerable groups, including technical assistance and in-kind grant support, as well as internship and apprenticeship components for individuals; 
•	Track 2: Design micro-interventions focused on solid waste recycling and reuse value chain, with a focus on informal collection and recycling activities, to directly target MSMEs, as well as chronically poor households who are the likely incubators of social tension within target communities;
•	Track 3: Market-support for women-led agricultural cooperatives to address food insecurity and livelihoods within the most vulnerable populations, while building sustainable enterprises through technical and in-kind support; and
•	Track 4: Regular community-level social tension perception surveys providing an effective sentinel monitoring system that generates data and evidence needed to identify, diagnose and measure changes to social tension in Lebanese host communities, thereby also affording donors an additional data stream for broader analysis and related programming.
Jobtech Alliance With Catalyst Fund Inclusive Jobtech, Mercy Corps and BFA Global will work with 8 early-stage jobtech innovators and 15 established jobtech SGBs in up to 10 CFYE target countries. The Fund will develop, enhance and scale solutions with potential to connect youth to decent jobs, and will work with them to ensure they better engage females and other marginalised groups. The programme will strengthen the knowledge base and ecosystem for inclusive jobtech in Africa. With CFYE funding, we will create, match or improve 15,000 decent jobs, and equip the sector to create millions more. This will be matched by complementary activities funded by the Conrad Hilton Foundation and Sida which will create, match or improve an additional 5,000 jobs in Uganda (specifically focused on refugees) and Ethiopia.
Fostering Resilience by Strengthening Abilities (FORSA) The 'Fostering Resilience by Strengthening Abilities (FORSA), is a €4,500,000 integrated programme designed to reduce inter-communal tensions between Lebanese, Syrians and Palestinians by alleviating competition over livelihoods. FORSA will expand employment and economic opportunities for both individuals and businesses and improve the function of Public and Private TVET centres in Zahle, West Bekaa, Chouf, Jezzine and Saida. All of Lebanon’s major religious sects and political affiliations are represented in the target area, which includes or is bounded by three major metropolitan hubs and economic centres, including Saida, Zahle and Beirut. The overall objective of FORSA is to improve economic confidence and stability by creating equitable economic and employment opportunities for target communities in Lebanon. To do this FORSA will focus on addressing constraints to employment due to mismatched or missing labour skills, lack of social trust, political restrictions on employment, poor business management capacity and the poor capacity of vocational training institutions within the agriculture, manufacturing, services and energy sectors in Lebanon by: 1) Improving access to employment opportunities through market-led skills training courses; 2) Supporting micro and small business creation for vulnerable groups and graduated trainees through specialized training and technical assistance; 3) Building the technical capacity of both private and government-run vocational and professional training centres to provide sustainable high-quality training programmes.
Building Resilience in Civil Society Phase II (BRICS II - aka CREATE) CREATE will engage local and national government, local civil society organisations and communities to mitigate the drivers, enablers and narratives of violent extremism in East Africa through support to policy initiatives, community engagement, and community level interventions in order to prevent the recruitment of vulnerable individuals by violent extremist organisations. The programme will work primarily in Kenya, Tanzania, Ethiopia, Mozambique and Uganda, through strategies adapted to the context and opportunities in each country to advance research, legislation and field implementation of activities.
Cold Wave Anticipatory Emergency Response The project will primarily work for anticipatory early actions with a preparatory work from identifying the most vulnerable affected population to prepositioning with winterization support and its distribution before the anticipated cold waves sets in. For this, it will closely monitor the weather information, analyse the data from department of Hydrology and Meteorology (DHM) and observe its effect at local level in the targeted districts. Accordingly, it will work with local DRM authorities and stakeholders including District and Local Emergency Operating Centres (DEOCs & LEOCs) to set out the trigger indicators and associated anticipatory early actions to combat the effect of cold wave. The prepositioning of commodities will mainly cover the sectors a. Shelter and NFI, and b. Food Security and Livelihoods. The shelter and NFIs mainly include the winterization kits for family and individuals (both adult and children). The food security and livelihoods covers distribution of survival food package through vouchers in order to support pauperized families and daily wage earners who may have difficulty finding work during the cold wave times. Gender specific requirements are considered in designing the set of commodities and top up nutrition supplement for pregnant and lactating women and children under 5. In addition, project will also sensitize staff and communities on specific protection issues and also disseminate health awareness messages through mobilizing social mobilizers and using the digital platform called Interactive Voice Response  (IVR).
Strengthening the Agency and Resilience of Affected Populations in Myanmar (SARA Phase III) To enable displaced, conflict-affected, chronically vulnerable and stateless households (HH) to meet their critical basic needs, the 15 month SARA Phase III programme (from January 1, 2022 to March 31, 2023) will provide emergency Cash and Voucher Assistance (CVA) through distributions to at least 25,000 households in Rakhine state, Chin state and Magway region. MC will implement the SARA programme in partnership with eight local organisations. In light of the varying needs, MPCA is the most broadly applicable support mechanism that will enable households to make purchases to meet their individual needs and follow their movements as they relocate around the conflict-affected areas in the target locations.
Improving the agency and means of Rakhine State's crisis-affected populations Phase 1: Research on the potential for cash-based interventions in Rakhine State Leveraging its global and local expertise as a leading agency in the field of Cash-Based Programming (CBP), Mercy Corps will conduct research to determine the potential for cash-based interventions in Rakhine State. In addition to a review of past and current programs and “standards” of the cash working group, Mercy Corps will specifically look at the formal and informal systems and processes through which cash can be disbursed to displaced and/or disaster-affected populations (including traditional remittances mechanisms such as “hundi”, mobile cash transfer, etc), with attention to the key stakeholders, market access, and risks associate to it. The research component will include elements of action-research through which certain options and scenarios will be tested to inform subsequent program design and implementation. Phase 2: Cash-based programming in Rakhine State Based on the results of the research, Mercy Corps will work with local partners and engage public and private partners to design and implement cash transfer interventions - including but not limited to unconditional cash transfers (UCT), cash for work (CFW) and loans for farmers. In doing so, Mercy Corps will put an important emphasis on 1) conflict sensitive programming, 2) the potential use of new technologies and 3) contributing to the emerging body of knowledge on CBP in Myanmar and thus strengthening information management.
Cash Consortium for Iraq (CCI) The CCI will provide support to enable households to meet their critical basic needs until the government is able to take over. Unless vulnerable households are able to meet their critical basic needs then efforts to promote recovery will be undermined, incomplete, and characterised by drastically unequal access to assistance which will tear at the fragile social fabric, spur greater disaffection with the government, and generate unrest. Meanwhile, the humanitarian community must invest in efforts to ensure responsible transition for vulnerable households to longer term assistance which will require reform to move from direct delivery to efforts that build capacity of local organisations and repair linkages with state institutions.
SAFER III SAFER III aims to alleviate the vulnerability of households affected by conflict and shocks (man-made or natural disaster) through the provision of multi-purpose cash assistance (MPCA) and Water, Sanitation and Hygiene (WaSH) assistance.
CSSF Inclusive Security and Resilient Youth (ISRY) Increased local Jordanian resilience to destabilising tensions, greater mutual trust and accountability between youth and women, communities and security actors and enhanced public safety. Specific Objective 1: Enhance youth and community participation in initiatives for the prevention of violence, including in the online space

Specific Objective 2 : Create a more trusted and gender equal partnership between Public Security Department (PSD) and women, men, youth and all ethnicities in promoting peace and security

Specific Objective 3: Greater participation of youth and women in peace and security at the national level, including in leadership
Multisector Humanitarian Response Programme - Yemen Given the high prevalence of acute malnutrition, which is caused by multiple interlinked factors related to health, WASH, nutrition and food security – the delivery of multi- sector, multi-year programming is vital to address underlying causes. The consortium’s members have developed the ‘Reducing Vulnerability Restoring Dignity’ Model. The ‘Reducing Vulnerability Restoring Dignity’ Model focuses on two essential pillars, ‘Life Saving Assistance’ and ‘Road to Resilience’. These pillars are strongly linked to ensure a transformation from vulnerability to preparedness in the face of future shocks stemming from conflict and displacement.
Locally led, Inclusive and Versatile Emergency Support to Conflict Affected Populations in Ukraine and Poland (LIVES) 3.0 Follow on funding from the FCDO funded "Locally led, Inclusive and Versatile Emergency Support to Conflict Affected Populations in Ukraine and Poland (LIVES) 2.0" program in Ukraine.

The follow-on program will build upon successful implementation under LIVES, looking to scale MPCA support while further strengthening the capacity of local agencies.