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Key Lessons: How to Engage Mining Companies to Transform Conflicts Related to their Operations
Over the past eight years, Search for Common Ground (Search) has been working with the mining sector to establish sustainable business practices, in Tanzania, Guinea and Madagascar. As such, Search has collaborated with Acacia Mining (owned by Barrick Gold) in Tanzania since...
External Evaluation: Search for Common Ground Tanzania’s Sustainable Business Practices (2019)
In Tanzania, Search for Common Ground (Search) has been operational since 2011, working to promote gender equality and good governance, encourage greater objectivity in the media and overcome differences that divide Tanzanians, including those who live around extractive industries, improving relationships between...
An Introduction to Religious Pluralism in Sri Lanka (2020)
Sri Lanka's diverse social fabric is made up of different ethnic, religious, linguistic, and cultural groups. There is a very clear distinction between different ethnic groups; Buddhism is the religion practiced by a majority of the country’s Sinhala population, a larger portion of...
Final evaluation: building resilient communities in Fiji project (2019)
This report presents the independent evaluation of the USAID funded Building Resilient Communities in Fiji (BRCF) project. The evaluation was conducted between September-October 2019 by a three-member evaluation team. The purpose of this evaluation was to identify to what degree the intended...
Migrants caught in crises: contexts, responses, and innovation
The situations of people who have moved from their countries of origin only to find themselves caught in a crisis that threatens their security and ability to thrive are of growing concern to the international community. While crises affect both nationals and...
Real-time Evaluation Mozambique: Tropical Cyclones Idai and Kenneth (2019)
Mozambique was hit by two tropical cyclones in early 2019, ‘Idai’ (landfall on 15 March in the port city of Beira / Sofala province, striking central provinces of the country) and ‘Kenneth’ (landfall on 25 April in Cabo Delgado, a Northern province...
Yemen Humanitarian Fund 2018-2019 Annual Monitoring Report
During the period under review, Yemen continued to be the world’s worst humanitarian crisis, driven by conflict, economic collapse and the continuous breakdown of public institutions and services. Seventy-five per cent of the entire population, 22.2 million people required some form of...
Tulivyo Sikia (What we Heard): A Weekly Rumor Tracking Bulletin on Ebola in DRC (January 2020)
“Tulivyo Sikia,” a Swahili expression meaning “What we heard,” is a weekly rumor tracking bulletin produced by Internews that gathers reactions and concerns from communities on the response to Ebola in the Democratic Republic of Congo. In collaboration with the International Federation...
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