Policy and advocacy

At Mercy Corps, we promote public policies that alleviate suffering, poverty and oppression by helping people build secure, productive and just communities. As an organization working in over 40 countries, we know that we have a unique role to play in amplifying the voices of communities around the world.

Mercy Corps’ Policy and Advocacy team leads our agency’s work to support policy and regulatory reforms, promote best practices, and protect foreign assistance resources. We engage with policymakers, the world’s largest foreign aid donors, at the United Nations, and in the countries where we operate.

We rely on your voice, too. With your help, we can ensure that everyone is aware of these critical issues, from your friends to your federal representatives. Join us in advocating for a better world.

For too long we’ve treated the symptoms of violence and not the causes. The Global Fragility Act will change that.

In December 2019, Congress adopted the historic bipartisan Global Fragility Act, creating the first-ever U.S. government strategy to tackle alarming levels of global violence around the world. That violence is causing unimaginable suffering and instability with almost 70 million people around the world on the run.

Mercy Corps helped develop the Global Fragility Act and partnered with the Alliance for Peacebuilding to lead a coalition of nearly 70 organizations in support of the legislation. Mercy Corps’ community of humanitarians joined the effort by contacting their representatives to share their support for the act.

Our teams — working in the most fragile countries around the world — witness firsthand every day how investments to prevent and mitigate violence are far more effective than reacting to its consequences. Learn more about what the Global Fragility Act accomplishes.