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IRC briefing for UK parliamentarians.

The new Labour government has already scrapped the inhumane Rwanda Plan, and as they continue to settle in, here are five key priorities that should be at the top of their agenda.

The IRC hosted the Client Responsive Humanitarian Action Learning Exchange on March 17 and 18, 2016, bringing together a diverse range of participants to share experiences and ideas on how to best deliver humanitarian programming that is more responsive to the needs and perspectives of clients.

The Parents Make the Difference project in Liberia aimed to promote the development and wellbeing of young children aged 3 to 7 through reducing harsh punishment, improving parenting practices, and increasing malaria prevention behavior.

Community scorecards are often conceived as a tool to exact greater accountability and responsiveness from services providers, as well as being a strong instrument for community empowerment. However, little is known about the impact of this type of social accountability tool, and even less so in conflict-affected and fragile contexts like that of eastern Congo.

The Democratic Republic of Congo (DR Congo) has been mired in conflict for over a decade, with devastating effects on its civilian population.