

Van Wilder, whose team leader Remco Evenepoel is out of the race, rose to 16th at 6:08, while Kuss moved up two places to 20th at 9:43. Kuss and Van Wilder made even more gains, coming back on the descent of the Colle Braida to finish in the main chase group, 2:20 down on the winner but nearly six minutes up on the peloton. Konrad was the best-placed of the day's breakaway in 16th at 8:43, and he managed to rise three places to 13th at 4:15.

However, three outsiders did gain a chunk of time. In terms of the general classification, there was no change to the top 10. Obviously, everything came back together, but I also have quite a fast finish and that saved me in the end. Once I achieved that, I knew there was a kicker, and I had to throw everything in to attack there.

“On the last climb, I was on my very limit. But the collaboration was really, really bad, and I was still going at the front, and we suddenly had a gap and fully pushed on. I thought it was going to be difficult for me to do something, and I was thinking I could help Konrad to win the stage. When I looked around, there were just monsters around – only big guys. “I wasn’t supposed to be in the breakaway. It’s really big for me, and obviously, I’m super proud," said Denz. The trio ticked off the descent, and then Denz kicked off hostilities with an attack on a kicker with 12km to go that briefly dropped Berwick and definitively exposed his weakness.ĭenz was happy to lead through the cagey final kilometres, and Skujins could hardly have planned it any better as he launched his sprint in the slipstream, but Denz was too strong, and Skujins had to drop his head as the German wildly celebrated the first Grand Tour stage win of his career. Through the RPM activities, Mercy Corps and its partners will explore the extent to which resilience capacities and wellbeing outcomes change over time and probe how resilience stakeholders in the USAID Country Development Cooperation Strategy (CDCS) Focal Zone (comprised of Banadir and most of the Southwest State) may or may not be contributing to this change.The summit of that climb, which measured 9.8km at 7.1% and was even steeper in the last 5km, was a virtual finish line for Denz, who fought grimly to hang on as Skujins forced the pace. RPM research activities consist of two intertwined components: 1) a panel survey that will trace a diverse set of livelihood groups over five years, and 2) a recurrent monitoring survey, with alternative periods of qualitative and quantitative data collection. A five-year USAID-funded project implemented by Mercy Corps in coordination with Agricultural Cooperative Development International/Volunteers in Overseas Cooperative Assistance (ACDI/VOCA), RPM seeks to improve upon current approaches to resilience measurement in order to inform program adaptation and decision-making among implementers, donors, and government representatives. While famine in Somalia has been averted during the first quarter of 2023, 6.5 million people are still in need of humanitarian assistance.1 Throughout the drought, the Somalia Resilience Population Measurement (RPM) Activity has conducted qualitative and quantitative data collection in response to the ongoing drought to better understand if and how households are coping during the crisis.
