Dorothee Weiffen

Cash and Cohesion in Crisis: On the Impacts of Anticipatory Cash Transfers in IDP Camps in South Sudan during Floods

Dorothee Weiffen, Ghassan Baliki, Jan Elfes, Tilman Brück

Households living in humanitarian settings face extreme vulnerability to adverse shocks. Cash transfers can reduce this vulnerability and enhance household welfare. However, the potential of […]

How to conduct impact evaluations in humanitarian and conflict settings

Aysegül Kayaoglu, Dorothee Weiffen, Ghassan Baliki, Melodie Al Daccache, Tilman Brück

Methodological, ethical and practical challenges make it difficult to use experimental and rigorous quasi-experimental approaches to conduct impact evaluations in humanitarian emergencies and conflict settings […]

Violent conflict moderates food security impacts of agricultural asset transfers in Syria: A heterogeneity analysis using machine learning

Dorothee Weiffen, Ghassan Baliki, Tilman Brück

Agricultural interventions are one of the key policy tools to strengthen the food security of households living in conflict settings. Yet, given the complex nature […]