Violence is escalating in Ethiopia’s northern Tigray region, where refugees and local communities are reeling from a year of multiple humanitarian disasters.

The world is celebrating the extraordinary rescue of the Wild Boars soccer team from a flooded cave network in the Mai Sai district of Thailand, but the incident has also shined a spotlight on a humanitarian crisis on the Thailand-Myanmar border that has been overlooked since the start of military rule in Myanmar in the 1960s.

This analysis examines six legal case management projects in Iraq to asses whether local partners are more cost efficient than large international NGOs.