The dRPC has been a leading organisation in peace and security space with a 25 year track record implementing high-impact research and projects work in humanitarian contexts. Our work in this space rolled out with EU funding of the ACORD Sahel- Lake Chad conflict prevention and climate emergency project in 2003. Over the years the dRPC has accessed funding to conduct research and support the  Nigeria Stability and Reconciliation Programme. Between 2006 to 2017 the dRPC worked in partnership with dRPC’s Chairman, Abdul Raufu Mustapha of Queen Elizabeth  House, Oxford University, to conduct six pivotal studies published as research reports and books on treats to peace and social disorder in Nigeria.

From 2017, the dRPC supported the NSRP’s partnership with International Alert to produce the Adopting a peacebuilding approach to the social effects of drug use in Nigeria study. The dRPC is currently responding to challenges to peace and the crisis in the humanitarian space through in-depth policy research, and capacity building for response. Working with funding from ISD, UK, through the CPAN BASIC partnership, the dRPC is conducting a 3-year multi-state in-depth study on the impact of humanitarian crisis as a driver of poverty, mapping the intersectionality between poverty and humanitarian crises. Using mixed methods research methodologies, the dRPC conducts primary data collection interviewing government officials, beneficiaries of social protection programs and CSOs engaged in alternative social protection. The dRPC complements this line of inquiry with secondary research focusing on official panel data analysis tracking Nigeria’s multidimensional poverty. We are also conducting in-depth research governments’ preparation to address crisis trajectories. Crisis trajectory reports are developed to disseminate to strategic decision makers for information and action.

Since 2019, the dRPC has been identifying and supporting local CSOs in areas of complex humitarian emergencies where girls are too afraid to go to school in all 6 geopolitical zones of Nigeria. Through open calls for applications, the dRPC has curated a list of 200 CSOs working in contexts of insecurity, trained and mentored 57 CSOs  to map out the impact of insecurity on school age girls and to develop advocacy programs for nudge state governments to take action to address security barriers impeding girls’ ability to attend schools.

The dRPC is one of 18 Nigerian organizations in the Technical Advisory Working Group of the Office of the Vice President of the Federation working to strengthen localization processes and expand localization opportunities for procurement in the humanitarian space. The dRPC provides strategic advice on data collection and mapping of CSO capacity and risks for expanded engagement in the procurement. We also map, curate and disseminate a real-time data base humanitarian procurement opportunity in Nigeria to inform local partners. The dRPC shapes the localisation discourse and evidence in Nigeria through our numerous publications.