Coordination between social protection programmes and productive rural development can help poor and vulnerable households overcome the poverty trap and break its intergenerational transmission. This is demonstrated by four studies carried out in Ethiopia, Lesotho,...

Work area: Social Protection and Agriculture

This project, also known as Rural Synergies seeks to influence the government institutions related to rural productive development and social protection policies in order to take advantage of the potential synergies between the two. To...

Work area: Social Protection and Resilience

Food systems were severely hit by COVID-19 and the related restrictions to the movement of people and goods. In...

Work area: Social Protection and Resilience

Despite the challenges involved in fragile and humanitarian settings, effective interventions demand rigorous impact evaluation and research. Such work in...

Work area: Social Protection and Agriculture

Despite the importance of social protection, today more than 70 percent of the world’s population still has no or...