- Research Programme Consortium: Livelihoods, Basic Services, and Social Protection
A new program begun in early 2011 will investigate livelihoods, access to basic services, and social protection in fragile and conflict-affected states.
- Sudan Environment and Livelihoods
In Sudan, livelihoods and conflict are closely linked. Darfur is an extreme example of how conflict destroys livelihoods and how pressures on people’s livelihoods, combined with a governance gap, can generate conflict. As part of a five-year UNEP Sudan Integrated Environment Project, Tufts/FIC is leading on the livelihoods component, focusing on markets and trade, and pastoralism.
- Customary Law, Livelihoods Change, and Conflict Mitigation in the Karamoja Cluster
Under a two-year research project with funding from Irish Aid/Kampala, FIC researchers are studying how groups are using customary mechanisms to respond to the changing social, political and economic environment in Karamoja.
- Refugee Livelihoods in Urban Areas: Identifying Program Opportunities
For refugees in urban areas, there is little evidence about which humanitarian programs work, what livelihoods initiatives refugees undertake themselves, and where opportunities for programming interventions lie.
- Livelihood Programming for Disaster Risk Reduction
According to the Hyogo Framework for Action, disasters affect over 200 million people annually, causing significant loss of lives, forced migration, and disruption of livelihoods and institutions. The trend over the past 15-20 years points to a greater frequency of environmental, climatic, political, and economic hazards and therefore a growing risk for vulnerable populations worldwide. Though disasters affect everyone, often the impact disproportionately falls on poor countries and the poor and marginalized people within.
- Livelihoods Change over Time
Disasters and the ensuing humanitarian response significantly change the livelihoods, institutions, and power relations of affected communities. Yet there are many gaps in the understanding of the impact of crisis on people’s livelihoods and on the humanitarian programs designed to address the impacts of crisis. The study is designed to improve our knowledge of livelihoods in crisis, to enable humanitarian agencies to better address the protection of livelihoods, and to enable policy makers to have a better understanding of the institutional drivers of livelihoods change.
- Livelihoods-based Programming and Impact Assessment in Pastoral Areas of the Horn of Africa
Although the language of livelihoods is increasingly present in the strategies and proposals of aid agencies, the actual application of these approaches varies considerably at the community level. Through coordination and technical support to multi-actor programs in pastoral regions, our goal is to improve the quality of aid programming in pastoral areas, and institutionalize impact assessment as a norm within donors and NGOs.