For several years Concern has engaged with universities in Ireland and abroad to work with Masters students as they expand their understanding of development and humanitarian issues, particularly as they research and write their Masters dissertation. This provides Masters students with the opportunity to gain an insight into Concern’s work and to access data for their research. 

This report presents the findings from in-depth research which evaluated the impact of Concern Worldwide's Graduation Programme in Malawi. To address some of the key challenges faced by people living in extreme poverty, the Graduation Programme seeks to simultaneously boost livelihoods and income, provide access to financial services, improve people’s self-confidence and tackle social exclusion.

Concern Worldwide UK’s report Nutrition and climate integration for transformative actions, raises the importance of tackling the malnutrition and climate change crises.

Global Hunger Index 2024: How gender justice can advance climate resilience and zero hunger

Working to reduce preventable diseases and deaths among women, adolescent girls and children in Sierra Leone through improving Universal Health Care coverage.

The Yoti Yoti Programme is responding to increasing food and nutrition insecurity in Sierra Leone, the overall goal of the project is to increase vulnerable households’ resilience to food and nutrition insecurity by strengthening food systems in Tonkolili and Port Loko Districts in North West Sierra Leone. 

This research programme aims to investigate the impact of conflict on various elements of the food system.

€50,000 from funds received by Concern from the Irish public provided an immediate essential short-term solution to the blood shortage crisis in Sierra Leone potentially saving over 17,000 paediatric patients, or over 5,000 women’s lives. 

Abuk Wieu in front of her tukul house constructed using savings from the Village Savings and Loans Association.

Kisoko Site Community are unable to farm & produce food for themselves, living in crowded unsanitary conditions.

Find out how Concern, in partnership with UCD, is tackling School Related Gender Based Violence through its Safe Learning Model pilot research in Sierra Leone..

This research brief presents the key findings of Concern Worldwide's Graduation programme in Malawi's most impoverished districts, Nsange and Mangochi.

This Flood Resilience Measurement for Communities (FRMC) process brief demonstrates how to measure the resilience of a community to floods before and after intervention. 

The 2023 Global Hunger Index (GHI) - The Power of Youth in Shaping Food Systems.

This issue of Knowledge Matters highlights the wide range of approaches adopted by Concern in promoting climate resilience across multiple countries.

This issue of Knowledge Matters is a special edition from Concern’s Emergency Directorate compiled to coincide with World Humanitarian Day 2023.

This paper explores the results of the cash transfers, including key conclusions on the use of Cash Plus approach for the anticipatory cash responses.