The Airbel Impact Lab at IRC is a team of researchers, strategists and innovators committed to the accelerated design, rigorous evaluation and cost-effective scaling of the most impactful solutions supporting people affected by crisis.
Featured studies
Economic Wellbeing Scaling economic opportunities for refugee women: Understanding and overcoming obstacles to women’s economic empowerment
In order to better understand the constraints refugee women face across contexts, the IRC is undertaking exploratory research in three different contexts, to understand the barriers ...
Education The cost-effectiveness of accelerated learning programs and the added value of on-site coaching on the learning and transition outcomes of out-of-school children in northern Nigeria
During two years of intervention, about 20,000 eligible out-of-school children will receive structured instruction in literacy, numeracy, and social-emotional learning. Researchers f...
Health RISE for Nutrition
The RISE study will build on this evidence by positioning the IRC to lead a coalition of other implementing agencies who will operationally test the integration of treatment of uncom...
Empowerment Participatory development in fragile and conflict-affected contexts: The five year follow up of the Tuungane Phase I and the evaluation of Tuungane Phase II in Eastern DRC
This impact evaluation was designed to assess the long-term effects of the Tuungane program’s phases 1 and 2, a large-scale community-driven reconstruction program implemented in ove...
Safety Evaluating the potential impact of cash transfers on women’s experience of violence and wellbeing in Raqqa Governate, Syria
The use of cash has been exponentially increasing in recent years as a mechanism to help households meet their basic needs in emergencies. Yet, evidence from more stable contexts su...