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Carmen Jacquez

Carmen is the SPARC Livelihoods, Markets and Economy Lead.

She is a livelihood and market systems expert at MercyCorps.

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Credit: S. Sheridan - Ethiopia, 05/2016

This scoping paper presents key findings from the SPARC review of the innovation landscape specific to the contexts of fragile and conflict-affected settings.
Woman Tending to the goats in Kenya. Credit: Jakob Dall - Danish Red Cross (p-KEN0534)

This report looks at the degree to which traders marketing livestock from the rangelands use formal financial services, and examines the development of these financial services.
A cattle trader at the animal market in Forobaranga, West Darfur.

This paper draws on interviews with traders and herders in Sudan, and secondary literature, to gain insight into how the suspended Hajj in 2020 affected livestock traders and herders on low incomes.

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