Keyword Archives: livelihoods
Refugee Livelihoods in Urban Areas: Identifying Program Opportunities
Refugees in urban areas face a specific set of livelihoods problems, and in recent years many aid agencies have begun to try to address these problems by supporting refugees through vocational training, microcredit and other services. So far, however, there … Read More
Posted in Publications, Reports
Keywords: livelihoods, refugees, urban
Refugee Livelihoods in Urban Areas: Case Study Egypt
Refugees in urban areas face a specific set of livelihoods problems, and in recent years many aid agencies have begun to try to address these problems by supporting refugees through vocational training, microcredit and other services. So far, however, there … Read More
Posted in Publications, Reports
Keywords: livelihoods, refugees, urban
Refugee Livelihoods in Urban Areas: Case Study Ecuador
Refugees in urban areas face a specific set of livelihoods problems, and in recent years many aid agencies have begun to try to address these problems by supporting refugees through vocational training, microcredit and other services. So far, however, there … Read More
Posted in Publications, Reports
Keywords: livelihoods, refugees, urban
Refugee Livelihoods in Urban Areas: Case Study Israel
Refugees in urban areas face a specific set of livelihoods problems, and in recent years many aid agencies have begun to try to address these problems by supporting refugees through vocational training, microcredit and other services. So far, however, there … Read More
Posted in Publications, Reports
Keywords: livelihoods, refugees, urban
Response Analysis: What Drives Program Choice?
This research considers “response analysis”: the analytical process by which the objectives and modality of program response options in an emergency are determined. The research question was whether improved analysis drives program response choices in humanitarian food security interventions?
Posted in Publications, Reports
Keywords: food security, livelihoods
Livelihoods, Basic Services and Social Protection in Northern Uganda and Karamoja
This paper synthesizes current evidence on how people are recovering their livelihoods and accessing basic services and social protection interventions in the conflict-affected regions of Uganda’s Greater North. Please visit the Research Programme Consortium page for more information and to … Read More
Posted in Briefing Papers, Publications
Keywords: livelihoods
Livelihoods, Basic Services and Social Protection in South Sudan
This paper summarises the existing literature on livelihoods, basic services and social protection in South Sudan; presents a brief analysis of this literature, and lays out potential research questions for the Secure Livelihoods Research Consortium (SLRC). Please visit the Research … Read More
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Keywords: livelihoods
Linking Poor Rural Households to Microfinance and Markets in Ethiopia
The USAID funded PSNP Plus project ‘Linking Poor Rural Households to Microfinance and Markets in Ethiopia’ ended in December 2011. The PSNP Plus was designed as a three-year project in support of the Government of Ethiopia’s Productive Safety Net Program (PSNP), which provides food and or cash to chronically food insecure households in exchange for labor on rural infrastructure projects, or direct transfers to households unable to participate in physical labor activities. The overall goal of the PSNP Plus was to build household resilience and household assets through market linkages and access to microfinance this goal being directly linked to the objective of facilitating the graduation of households from the PSNP and out of chronic food insecurity.
Posted in Publications, Reports
Keywords: Assets, food security, Graduation, livelihoods, microfinance, Poverty, PSNP, Resilience, Safety Nets, Value Chains
Pastoralism and Pastoralist Livelihoods
The Feinstein International Center is working with several national and international organizations, with the aim of promoting understanding of pastoralists livelihoods systems among local, national and international stakeholders and strengthening the capacity of pastoralist leaders, organizations and other advocates to articulate the rationale for pastoralism.
Posted in Publications, Reports
Keywords: livelihoods, pastoralism, Sudan Environment and Livelihoods
Rapid Review of the Cash-for-Work and Natural Resource Management Components of the RAIN Project
The project Revitalizing Agricultural/Pastoral Incomes and New Markets (RAIN) is a three‐year project implemented by Mercy Corps and Save the Children UK (SCUK) in parts of Somali and Oromiya Regions in Ethiopia. The project aims to protect, build and diversify assets in food insecure households. The donor is the Office for Foreign Disaster Assistance (OFDA) and the project budget is US$17 million.
Posted in Briefing Papers
Keywords: food security, livelihoods, Pastoralism and Policy in Ethiopia
