Behavioral Insights
Behavioral science combines theories and evidence from economics, psychology, anthropology, and cognitive science to build an understanding of human behaviors and decision-making processes. Insights from behavioral science can be rapidly tested and applied to the design of policies and interventions to ensure they are effectively delivered and adopted in practice.
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Economic Evaluation
We are a leader on humanitarian efficiency, helping policymakers and practitioners make better decisions about how to allocate and use funding. We track the cost-efficiency of our interventions and adapt project design or delivery to ensure that cost per output meets our targets.
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Design
Our design approach uses qualitative field research to uncover our user’s needs, values and existing behaviors. We engage users in every step of our process; rapidly prototyping, testing and refining ideas with desirability, scale, impact and cost-efficiency as our core goals.
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Innovative Finance
Global humanitarian budgets are not keeping pace with our clients’ increasing, and increasingly complex, needs. We are designing and testing new approaches to raising finance for our clients, and impactful new ways to use funds before, during and after displacement.
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Research
The lack of evidence and data in crisis-affected contexts often leaves humanitarians working in the dark. We conduct rigorous research to understand the problem, test impact, improve implementation, and get better at how we measure these. We use a range of methods from randomized controlled trials to qualitative interviews and observation, matching our methods to the driving question.
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Strategy
Strategy refers to breaking down complex, ambiguous problems, prioritizing the most important areas to focus on, and finding rigorous, but efficient means of arriving at solutions. We focus on issues that are the highest impact, while also being resource- and time-efficient.
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Using evidence
We search, critically appraise and synthesize the best available research evidence and support IRC staff and leadership to use this evidence in making strategic, programmatic and investment decisions across all levels of the organization.
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