Consultancy - Understanding Development Finance Actors role in Resilience Interventions

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Mercy Corps is a leading global organization powered by the belief that a better world is possible. In disaster, in hardship, in more than 35 countries around the world, we partner to put bold solutions into action — helping people triumph over adversity and build stronger communities from within. Evidence consistently shows that prioritizing prevention, adaptation, and resilience in fragile and conflict-affected contexts can reduce humanitarian needs and promote long-term stability. Yet these lessons risk being sidelined as bilateral aid budgets tighten and donors focus on immediate life-saving relief. There isexpectationthatdevelopment finance institutionsmay be ableto fill this gap– providing prevention, recovery, andresilience infragile places not yet in crisis.However,challenges tooperatingin these settings – access, security, perceived risk, poorly functioning government institutions, and internal bureaucracy– and ...