Broad, comparative situation research across protracted refugee/displacement crises — building the evidence base to find high-leverage intervention opportunities before narrowing down to any one of them.
Work on dzaleka-cost-model produced a broad-to-narrow situation analysis
for Dzaleka Refugee Camp, Malawi (docs/cases/dzaleka.md here) — a
sector-level Theory of Change evidence base covering legal/policy, funding,
disaster risk, and protection pathways, sourced and dated throughout.
Fraternity generalizes that method and applies it across multiple crises/camps. The goal right now is breadth, not depth: gather comparable situation data across several sites so that patterns, structural levers, and funding/protection gaps can be compared side by side. Once a comparison across cases surfaces a genuine opportunity — a lever that is high-leverage, tractable, and neglected relative to the others — we narrow down and go deep on that one.
Current phase: gathering information. Do not narrow yet.
CONCEPT.md— the reusable research methodology (the four-pathway framework, sourcing discipline, output shape).docs/cases/— one file per crisis/camp, each following the same structure so they stay comparable.docs/comparison.md(once ≥3 cases exist) — cross-case comparison and candidate opportunity list.
Every figure keeps its original source, date, and reporting period. Numbers that diverge across sources are not silently reconciled — the divergence itself is often informative (reporting-period lag, methodology differences, contested figures). Always check the date attached to a figure before using it comparatively.