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Project/Consultancy Title: Researcher Author(s) - Resilience and Adaptation Project Location(s): United States/home base (with potential travel) Timeline: 15 November 2025-31 March 2026 Background: Mercy Corps is a leading global organization powered by the belief that a better world is possible. In disaster, in hardship, in more than 40 countries around the world, we partner to put bold solutions into action โ helping people triumph over adversity and build stronger communities from within. Purpose / Project Description: Mercy Corps is recruiting a Researcher/Author for an FCDO funded, Resilience and Adaptation Fund Learning Facility (RAFLF). The RAFLF will curate, compile and develop evidence and learning both to support and inform current Resilience and Adaptation Fund programmes and make the case for and inform future investment in resilience and adaptation programming. The Facility will produce four focused evidence reports on critical aspects of resilience programming, drawing on existing research and case studies from resilience/adaptation programmes. To ensure relevance and usability, findings will be tested and refined through three participatory โsense-makingโ workshops with FCDO, partners, and local stakeholders. The evidence will also be used to build support and expertise for resilience across a wider range of donors and stakeholders, including national authorities, international donors, and development finance institutions. The themes for the reports are:
Cash and market-based responses to build resilience in fragile or conflict affected settings (FCAS) where conflict risks and climate intersect Land and natural resource governance to increase household resilience Getting finance to actors and affected populations who need it most: Integrating a โsystems changeโ element into programmes and approaches Mercy Corps is seeking 1 or more (to max 3) researchers to work with Mercy Corps technical leads and programme teams to deliver these reports by 31 March 2026. Consultant Objectives: Work with Mercy Corps and FCDO teams and other stakeholders to understand evidence needs/gaps and refine critical research questions for implementing organisations, FCDO leads, critical national stakeholders and a range of international donors/DFIs. Produce timely, relevant and action-oriented research products to address those needs. Consultant Activities: The Consultant will: Deliver the cash and market-based responses report by; Refining research questions: Through focus groups and KIIs, with Mercy Corps and FCDO, define critical evidence gaps and needs in order to refine the planned research product and outputs