Maintains Program: Research Supporting Social Services to Adapt to Shocks
COVID-19 has triggered an expansion of social protection programs worldwide, necessitating innovation in how social protection is delivered during crises.
The research "Towards shock-responsive social protection" examines how the social protection programs have been used to respond to the COVID-19 crisis.
Feed the Future Innovation Lab for Markets, Risk and Resilience
Some development programs are designed on the premise that they can trigger lasting changes in poverty or food security. An intervention in eastern Uganda to increase the use of improved seed varieties and basic...
Feed the Future Innovation Lab for Markets, Risk and Resilience
Agricultural extension promotes improved inputs and more productive farming practices, which could boost food security and reduce poverty in developing countries. We evaluated how a large-scale agricultural...
This paper applies econometric techniques for estimating household resilience in Uganda using the so-called Resilience Index Measurement and Analysis(RIMA) recently proposed by FAO (2013). It then...
The region of Karamoja, located in the northeast of Uganda, is the poorest and least developed region in the country. Historically, Karamoja has been a pastoral area; crop production, which is less reliable...
In August 2017, FAO was asked by the Commissioner for Refugees (Office of the Prime Minister of Uganda) to support the implementation of a socio-economic analysis within the refugees’ settlements and host...
Chronic Poverty Advisory Network (CPAN)
, USAID Center for Resilience
Health intersects with resilience and sustained poverty escapes in at least three ways. Poor health reduces well-being and can be a shock or stressor at the individual, household, community or systems level. It...
Chronic Poverty Advisory Network
, USAID Center for Resilience
Recent research by ODI CPAN, commissioned by the USAID Center for Resilience, investigated the resilience of households above the poverty line in Uganda and the Philippines. The research aimed to isolate the extent...
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