The Refugee Archive's Country Portfolios
Story to Action Lab
Portfolios dedicated to bridging narrative to policy & programming across multiple displacement contexts.
Democratic Republic of the Congo
Updated 2026: Story to Action Lab Partner, PCR Foundation, Goma
DRC: Goma & North Kivu Resilience
In North Kivu and Goma, our Lab addresses the intersection of conflict and natural displacement. Our on-the-ground partners, the PCR Foundation and local leaders, work closely with our Africa Continent Director to collect oral histories from mothers raising children in a rebel-controlled territory and to adapt our collaborative writing and education modules into French and Swahili.
Research here focuses on the resilience of communities facing recurring displacement, with the aim of influencing broader policy decisions in the region.
Partner
Oral History
Testament
Active Campaigns
Oral Histories
Preserving narratives of female heads of household living in current displacement settings in fragile places.
FHH Policy Tracker
A student-led policy tracker, examining how national laws shape the lives of displaced single mothers and female-headed households across conflict and displacement settings.
Economic
Micro-Lending
Small-scale lending designed to give displaced mothers a path toward financial independence. Loans are paired with local support so recipients aren't navigating repayment alone.
Oral History Education
Program
Custom-built, multilingual training program that equips Story-to-Action Lab partners to ethically collect historical and present-day testimonies from single mothers in Goma who are raising children as female heads of household amid ongoing displacement in M23-controlled areas.