Impact fund projects
| Project Title | Lead Institution | Partners | Project Timeline | Geography | Project Summary |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| EMPOWER III - Strengthening Gender Based Violence (GBV) reporting and policies in public transport in sub-Saharan Africa | SLR Consulting Limited |
Lagos Metropolitan Area Transport (LAMATA) – Nigeria Flone Initiative – Kenya Zambia Road Safety Trust – Zambia |
Sep 2025 – Mar 2026 | Sub-Saharan Africa – Kenya, Nigeria, Zambia | The project adapts research outputs from the High-Volume Transport projects EMPOWER and EMPOWER II, to deploy user-friendly reporting systems for formal and informal public transport (paratransit) passengers to establish a permanent data source of gender-based violence (GBV) incidents and locations. The report also uses data to strengthen policy recommendations and training materials to engage new stakeholders (regional and national policy makers) in Kenya, Nigeria and Zambia, for long lasting change, for rural and urban transport services. |
| Multi-tiered engagement for safe and inclusive integration of three-wheelers in Bangladesh’s transport system | Islamic University of Technology | None | Sep 2025 – Sep 2026 | South Asia – Bangladesh | This project introduces a structured, multi-tiered engagement process to translate the past research into policy and practice. By engaging stakeholders from grassroots to policy makers, the project will create a consensus-driven and logical framework of integration of three-wheeler-based mobility with safety and viability at the forefront. |
| Data literacies in displacement (DLiD) | The University of Warwick |
University of Ibadan International Organization for Migration |
Sep 2025 – Mar 2027 | Global – Humanitarian contexts | This programme of activities draws on the findings of the Data and Displacement project and adds to work already undertaken to create a training tool for humanitarians. The project team will enhance the impact of the training tool through developing it for use by affected community members and donors; tracing its impact based on indicators developed with key informants from the humanitarian sector; creating a best practices concordat and framework of action; and launching the concordat and tool at events for multiple users in Nairobi, London and Geneva. The activities are designed to incrementally build a sustainable best practices community, which will enhance accountability and improve the quality of data upon which decisions about humanitarian programming are made. |
| Establishing safer motorcycle taxi operations in Nepal’s provinces | University of the West of England | Nepal Injury Research Centre, at Kathmandu Medical College – Nepal | Oct 2025 – Jan 2027 | Nepal | This project aims to use evidence-based research findings to support provincial governments in Nepal enact regulations for Motorcycle Taxis (MCT) operations that will improve safety and convenience to passengers, riders and other road users. This project builds on the FCDO funded project: “Policy and regulation development for motorcycle taxi safety in Nepal”. A focus on achieving impact from the initial study could shape Motorcycle Taxi (MCT) regulations in up to seven provinces and establish MCT forums that can help manage the issues that will inevitably arise. |
| Extending grid interconnection of the South Asian grid to Sri Lanka and the Maldives | Integrated Research and Action for Development (IRADe) | None | Sep 2025 – Mar 2026 | Sri Lanka, Maldives | This project extends the geographical area of regional energy cooperation from BBIN Region (Bangladesh, Bhutan, India and Nepal) to two other countries of South Asia, i.e. Sri Lanka and Maldives, through interconnection of grids of Sri Lanka and Maldives to the Indian grid and through the Indian grid to the South Asian grid. There are even greater chances of optimal utilization of resources, if the demand diversities and supply diversities of two more nations in South Asia are added, by interconnecting of the grids of Sri Lanka and the Maldives, the grids of both of which are still not connected to the South Asia grid. |
| Bridging research and humanitarian response for an evidence-based approach to displacement in the Chad-Sudan borderlands | Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI) | Bureau de Conseils, de Formations, de Recherches et d’Etudes (BUCOFORE) – Chad | Oct 2025 – Dec 2026 | Chad, Sudan | This project aims to bridge the gap between research and humanitarian action by disseminating and discussing the research findings from the research on Sudanese women refugees in eastern Chad to humanitarian actors and the donor community. Key insights from this project will contribute to the production of multilingual thematic fact sheets. Long-term partnerships with implementing organizations will sustain the integration of research into practice, enhancing the design of conflict-sensitive, gender-responsive interventions. The initiative will culminate in participation at the 2026 Doha Forum, providing a global platform to disseminate findings and engage donors for strategic collaboration. |
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