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Supporting the Education of Marginalised Girls in Kailali (STEM) Over fifty-five percent of Nepalese live below the $1.25/£0.78 daily poverty line clustered by geography, caste, and gender. Some of the most marginalised and disadvantaged, in terms of access to education, social and economic life opportunities, are Dalit and Janajati girls and their subcastes living in the Kailali District of the Far West Region. These subcastes include the Tharu people who were previously indentured servants to higher castes , and the Badi people who are the most marginalised of the ‘untouchables’ with adolescent Badi girls socialised and defined by their caste as commercial sex workers at puberty. Dalit and Janajati girls in Kailali District face a triple disadvantage of (1) living in a rural location where education is a low priority, (2) belonging to the lowest of castes and therefore forced to perform undesirable work and social tasks, and (3) being devalued by society for being female. Supporting The Education of Marginalised Girls of Kailali (STEM) will begin to erode the cultural and financial barriers to education and work these marginalised girls face by supporting them to Enrol in school, Learn and pass exams, and begin to Earn their way from school to work. ;
PROGRESS: Programme for Resilient Systems to build absorptive, adaptive and transformative capacity for over 530,000 vulnerable individuals in Kenya and Uganda To build resilience, PROGRESS will scale approaches, practices and technologies based on six cross-cutting methodologies we have successfully employed across our East Africa resilience portfolio. Developed around empowerment and governance perspectives, the programme focuses on facilitating a process that puts communities, private sector, and governments in a position of responsibility to decide and affect their future vulnerability to shocks and stresses. This approach acknowledges that activities are not just an end but a means to achieving transformational impacts and behaviour change. All the approaches and practices embed this idea of programme as process to take impact to scale. GOAL: enhancing household wellbeing amid increasing climate extremes and disasters OBJECTIVES: - improved food security, nutrition, and livelihood opportunities for men, women, boys, and girls even in the face of droughts and climate variability, across Wajir and Karamoja - improved citizen voice in formal and informal governance which will enhance accountability and appropriate use of public resources, ultimately resulting in government investments that are more responsive to community needs and are more climate-smart
FORSA II Mercy Corps proposes “Fostering Resilience by Strengthening Abilities II”, a 6.5 million EUR gender responsive programme designed to increase access to education and employment for vulnerable youth from host and refugee communities over the next 3.5 years in two areas of Lebanon: Bekaa and South. Building on its successful training and job placement experience in Lebanon and on its extensive network of stakeholders, Mercy Corps will partner with private and public Technical and Vocational Education and Training (TVET) institutes, private companies, local associations, incubators and online and offline job platforms to enable the participation of youth in targeted skills
development aligning with market needs, to support access of young men and women to self-employment, and to improve job placement mechanisms in Lebanon in a sustainable manner, allowing vulnerable individuals to benefit from improved services beyond the duration of the programme.

To strengthen market based TVET provision to address the mismatch of skills to employment, and to strengthen platforms linking job-seekers with employment.
Harmonized Multi-Purpose Cash Assistance to Conflict Affected vulnerable households in Iraq This programme supports the Cash Consortium for Iraq (CCI) to provide vulnerable conflict affected displaced populations, returnees and extremely vulnerable individuals with multipurpose cash assistance to meet household basic needs and with legal support. The CCI consists of five international non-governmental organizations including Mercy Corps, serving as the current lead agency, the Danish Refugee Council (DRC), International Rescue Committee (IRC), Norwegian Refugee Council (NRC) and Oxfam. Conflict affected households receive multipurpose cash assistance
Participatory and Inclusive Land Conflict Management in Burkina Faso (PILand) Improving equitable and inclusive land, natural resource governance and justice in Burkina Faso. The programme works on the establishment and strengthening of conflict management structures and on research activities related to the management of conflicts over natural resources.
FORSA II - Moubader The 19-month MOUBADER programme extension builds on a successful track record of quality livelihoods and employability programme implementation in Lebanon, in particular the “Fostering Resilience by Strengthening Abilities” - FORSA II (Activity Identifier: GB-SC-SC030289-91413) and FORSA+ programmes; both funded by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Netherlands.
Resilient Market Systems This project covers an initial expansion of the achievements of the Demonstrating a Market System Approach in Bidibidi and Palorinya Settlements (ReHope project) funded by DFID from July 2017-June 2018. The pilot was implemented in partnership with The Palladium Group NUTEC-Market Development programme, also funded by DFID, as well as DanChurchAid (DCA). The pilot successfully found that MSD is a viable approach to refugee response with a critical mass of early adopter refugee and host community farmers, agrodealers, input and output agents and private sector partners looking to expand agricultural production, support services and buying in West Nile in and around refugee hosting districts. Based on these key findings, the project intends to begin an initial period of expansion during a 12-month period of planned bridge funding (ReHope BRIDGE) of a 5-year Resilience Strategy.
Zimbabwe Livelihoods and Food Security Programme Mercy Corps is sub-grantee to Paladium, and is responsible for employing and making available a District Markets Coordinator for Guruve district. The District Markets Officers are recruited with the aim of enhancing the field presence of MD technical staff in the operational areas, thus strengthening coordination of the respective programme activities. The subcontractor will also facilitate promotion, scaling up capacity building and training on the Mobile bids and offers platform (MBOSS) in Gokwe South District. The overall goal was to provide better access to markets for small holder farmers.
Improved Networks, Training and Jobs (INTAJ) 3 INTAJ is a 12 month stability programme aiming to reduce grievances and improve perceptions and trust between community members and local government due to improved service delivery and economic opportunities in targeted communities. Specifically, this will be accomplished by strengthening municipal and civil society capacity to work together to improve on solid waste management and recycling service delivery; by facilitating knowledge transfer in best practices and relevant technologies to support SWMR services and SME business support; and to support existing businesses in vulnerable communities to survive and thrive.
Simplified family MUAC integrated nutrition program in Taiz Mercy Corps proposes adoption/ further testing of the uniMUAC bracelet for use by caregivers. Early laboratory tests show it improves on options such as the UNICEF bracelet and clickMUAC, with higher specificity, features to aid use by mothers, and additional measurement for pregnant and lactating women (PLWs) who remain underserved by existing options. This intervention will target nutrition outcomes, but will also impact health, food security, and social cohesion. MUAC is considered a strong indicator for nutrition-related mortality in children.  It is easily used by caregivers with lower literacy and is low-cost. 

Districts in Taiz carry a heavy burden of malnutrition. This innovation will target communities further from health facilities, allowing them to monitor nutrition status at home. Distribution will layer with existing programming in the same district. Selected Community Health Volunteers (CHVs) from Governorate Health Office (GHO) lists will deliver and educate on the bracelets and provide follow up visits. In order to add to the evidence base, it will be implemented using geographic clusters to compare the uniMUAC and UNICEF bracelets as a first in a field setting.
Sustainable Access to Finance in Nepal (SAFAL-NEPAL) The SAFAL project is designed to provide sustainable increase in income and access to finance opportunities for more than 60,000 people (60% of them are women) living in Nepal's rural and remote areas, particularly the hill and mountain communities, bringing about a systemic transformation in the delivery and access of financial services. The project will also assist 21,500 financially excluded people in getting credit or loans for their enterprises along with financial literacy trainings and livelihoods skills to improve their livelihoods and income. Project’s Goal: Reduction in poverty in Nepal's remote and rural areas, particularly hill and mountain communities in Nepal through sustainable access to finance, appropriate livelihood opportunities and local institution strengthening. Project’s Outcome: Sustainable increase in income and access to finance opportunities of those living in Nepal's rural and remote areas, particularly the hill and mountain communities, bringing about a systemic transformation in the delivery and access of financial services. This is expected to be reached through three outputs: - Output 1: Capacity building of formal and informal community institutions (SACCOS, Agri Coops, CFUGs, etc) for improved access to financial services, livelihood opportunities, and market linkages. - Output 2: Improved access to microfinance services (credit, savings, micro-insurance, and remittance) and livelihoods support for rural and remote clients through catalytic support to MFIs for establishing new branches in financially excluded areas. - Output 3: Piloting and targeted scale-up of innovative practices and technology (guarantee fund, mobile money) to provide financial services through participating financial institutions.
SAFER II The expected impact of the programme is to reduce the vulnerability of households affected by conflict and shocks in Democratic Republic of Congo, with a specific outcome to deliver a coordinated humanitarian response that enables at least 561,409 vulnerable people affected by conflict and shocks to have safe and equitable access to multi-sectoral emergency assistance and reduce negative coping mechanisms.
#JordanHortiFuture: Towards a More Inclusive and Resilient Horticulture Sector for Smallholder Farmers in Jordan Mercy Corps in partnership with Wageningen University & Research (WUR), Advance Consulting and Agriterra is implementing the three-year #JordanHortiFuture programme, guided by the overarching goal of enabling smallholder farmers to have an increased income and resilience in a better performing horticulture sector. The Consortium, focusing in Irbid, Ajloun (highlands), and Balqa (Jordan 
Valley), will adopt an inclusive and layered-approach to address the root causes and challenges of smallholder farmers and value chain actors, both at individual and organization-level, to enhance efficiency, sustainability and profitability of the horticulture sector in Jordan. Ultimately, the programme will contribute to a horticulture sector in Jordan that is inclusive, entrepreneurial, sustainable and resilient for these smallholder farmers. To this end, the programme will target smallholder farmers, but also SMEs and other value chain actors, cooperatives, government agencies, policy makers and financial institutions.
Climate Smart Land Management and Services In response to the Climate Smart Jobs (CSJ) Programme Component 4: Climate Smart Land Management and Services, Mercy Corps and partners propose the Restoring Ecological Vitality In Vulnerable Ecosystems (REVIVE) programme, which will support both smallholder farmers vulnerable to climate change and key market system actors to adopt more sustainable land management approaches, increasing productivity and incomes and reducing environmental risks for entire communities. The ultimate aim is to support the flow of finance, skills and knowledge to allow small and medium farmer communities to become the stewards of their own ecosystems: to ensure commercial viability and to design incentives that will work to restore and protect at the ecosystem watershed or landscape levels. REVIVE will also engage the customer base for CSLMS to incentivise the level of demand necessary to scale these products and services and enable extra finance through carbon trading when feasible. By facilitating investments into entrepreneurial farmers, our approach will enable farmers to invest in additional sustainable land management activities to improve their ecosystem management and thus realise quicker financial returns.
Justice and Stability in the Sahel (JASS) The JASS programme aims to prevent the further spread of violent conflict which has taken hold across the north and centre of the country from shifting southwards towards Mali’s main resource and population centres by tackling underlying drivers. The programme will work towards supporting achievement of its Goal by zeroing in two of the most critical factors pushing many Malians towards use of violence as a means of dispute resolution: the widespread perceptions of marginalization by certain groups of population constraining social mobility and dictating allocation of resources, and lack of legitimacy of the governance mechanisms over the attribution and access to resources.
Supporting Pastoralism and Agriculture in Recent and Protracted Crises (SPARC) The Supporting Pastoralism & Agriculture in Recurrent & Protracted Crises (SPARC) programme will help poor and vulnerable people better cope with crises and increase their resilience to recurring shocks and protracted crisis and conflict by addressing evidence gaps on the effectiveness of different programmes and policies supporting, rebuilding, and increasing the resilience of agricultural livelihoods. As a result of the programme more people will have access to quality agricultural support during protracted and recurrent crisis. The objective of the programme is to develop evidence that will support the development of programmes, policies, technologies and systems that enable the most cost effective and efficient delivery of support to affected communities in situations of protracted and recurrent crisis, which are inclusive and equitable, and promote resilience and long-term sustainability. This will be achieved by: 1) Undertaking research in three priority areas a) How programmes delivering support to the agricultural sector can be designed and implemented more effectively. There is limited evidence of how to best protect, save and rebuild agriculture in protracted crises, a lack of evidence on what works, limited information on programme effectiveness and costs, and a lack of focus on the use of new technologies, and system innovations b) How to provide more effective support to poor households moving out of full or direct involvement in pastoralism: research is required on how to increase the percentage of non-livestock income, c) How to provide more effective support to poor households aiming to return to pastoralism: livestock ownership is becoming increasingly concentrated, crowding out many small-scale herders who make up by far the largest share of the livestock keeping population. 2) Supporting innovation and the use of technology in DFID and partner programmes: a) innovation in programmes, policies, technologies and systems will be critical in developing effective support to agriculture and pastoralist livelihoods. The programme will develop a set of priority areas for innovation and potential scaling.
Peace & Development Programme (PDP): Market Opportunities in the Somali Region of Ethiopia (MORE) The proposed Market Opportunities in the Somali Region of Ethiopia (MORE) programme will transform the lives of 125,000 vulnerable TOP households in the Somali Regional State of Ethiopia through sustainable employment and business generation activities.
The programme will address the three major constraints faced by TOP households in accessing alternative livelihoods: limited business and livelihood opportunities caused by undeveloped and fragmented markets
(addressed through Output 1); widespread lack of access to financial services (Output 3); and lack of marketable skills (Output 4). Output 2 addresses the particular challenges faced by rural TOP households in terms of vulnerability to shocks, diminishing assets and lack of access to services and alternative livelihood opportunities.

Output 1. Increased participation by TOP households in at least 10 agricultural and non-agricultural markets, resulting in increased income
Output 2. Increased participation in VSLAs by rural TOP households resulting in growth in household livelihood assets
Output 3. Improved access to financial services for TOP households and other market actors
Output 4. A dynamic 'employment and business support services sector providing effective services to increased numbers of TOP households

; A market systems development (MSD) approach is at the core of the MORE design. We will work with key government agencies, private sector actors and community organisations to address underlying systemic constraints and catalyse changes to institutions and market structures that are sustainable. MORE will also mainstream a context sensitive approach into all decision-making and activity implementation, ensuring effective stakeholder coordination and communication and rigorous application of the Do No Harm methodology. MORE will ensure active community engagement, as we believe that communities are the most effective agents for their own transformation, and close partnership with government will also be essential for successful implementation and sustainability. MORE will focus on innovation and learning, to adjust to the dynamic context through ongoing learning and feedback. While working with a diverse range of actors, we will maintain a clear focus on vulnerable households and individuals that are the primary target beneficiaries, particularly women and youth. MC will work with ACPA, ESDA and LTS to maximise impact, drawing on each consortium member's expertise and skill.;
Strengthening social capital and reducing tensions between Jordanian host communities and Syrian refugees Mercy Corps plans to implement a three-year programme focussing on holistic and long-term strategies to address sources of tension and build social cohesion, through empowering community members to peacefully solve community needs resulting in more stable and peaceful communities. Mercy Corps has extensive experience implementing conflict mitigation programming in Jordan – the most recent programming has been under the previous DFID CSSF funded grants (2013-present), in addition to the Netherlands Embassy-funded programme 2014-2018 - ‘Jordanian Host Communities and Syrian Refugees Work Together to Build Peaceful Communities’. We are currently active in 23 at risk communities in Jordan (18 DFID, 5 Dutch), and will continue to expand through this programme into a further 18 communities. We will continue to work towards building stable and peaceful communities by working closely with other actors who are implementing conflict mitigation programmes in Jordan. This will include partnership with the Government of Jordan, in particular the Ministry of Planning & International Cooperation, Ministry of Social Development, Ministry of Water and Irrigation, Ministry of Public Works, Ministry of Education, Ministry of Energy and Mineral Resources, Ministry of Health, Ministry of Municipalities, and local government and municipalities. Moreover, Mercy Corps will collaborate with the DFID CSSF funded World Bank programme, particularly with respect to the identification of infrastructure activities, thereby ensuring that both programmes mitigate the duplication of activities and allow for greater coverage of infrastructure interventions. Overall the intended programme impact is ‘enhanced stability and social cohesion in Jordan’. Programming will be based around the following outcome - ‘Community members are engaged in peaceful approaches to resolving tensions and stressors’. The impact will be achieved through a three-pronged approach: - Output 1: Community members have increased social capital - Output 2: Community support projects promote stability - Output 3: Research and learning strategies are used to inform response to community tensions
Journey to Scale This programme aims to increase the affordability of solar cookstoves in refugee settings and peri-urban Uganda, through links to carbon credits and pay as you go schemes. It will also establish Ecoca East Africa SMC Ltd (EEA), the first e-cooking business of East Africa, support a retailer network, map the value chain and adapt the model for humanitarian settings. Mercy Corps' role is providing technical advice to Pesitho's experts.

Pesitho’s vision is to provide affordable and accessible renewable electric cooking to a range of people - from those living in refugee settlements to those in peri-urban and urban settings - enabling a clean transition from traditional to modern cooking. Through
Journey to Scale
project we hope to transition from a grant-based business model (selling to NGOs) to a sustainable market-based model, through the introduction of a carbon credit scheme that will significantly lower end user prices so as we are able to sell directly to those who utilise our product, the Ecoca. The Ecoca completely eliminates the need for biomass and satisfies the cooking and lighting needs of a typical rural off-grid household.
Starting in Bidibidi refugee settlement, over the two years we hope to refine and test some core elements of the new business model to allow us to scale in an accessible and sustainable manner to reach 6,000 households in Uganda and Kenya by the end of the program.
Integrated Communications and Data Responses to Coronavirus in Kenya Mercy Corps have been requested by DFID to manage pass-through finding to Shujaaz, a national organisation to conduct media outreach on COVID-19 prevention targeting youth. 

Mercy Corps has no activities to complete under this programme beyond partner management. 

Programme Impact: Kenya's youth population and adults, especially in urban low-income households, can make informed decisions related to the Coronavirus prevention and control.
Access to Justice and Jobs in Jordan- Addressing Root Causes The Consortium will contribute to the Dutch policy on Security and Rule of Law (S&RL) of addressing the root causes of conflict, instability and irregular migration in Jordan. Outcome 1: Increased awareness of rights and access to legal support for refugees and host communities. Outcome 2: Improved employability of Jordanians and Syrian Refugees. Outcome 3: Existing and new Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises (M/SMEs) expanded to retain existing workforce and expand employment opportunities.