Work area: Social Protection and Agriculture

Country: Ethiopia

Ethiopia’s population is overwhelmingly rural. Rural peoples are constantly exposed to extreme poverty and chronic food shortages and depend mostly on smallholder farming and livestock herding for their livelihood. This makes the promotion of coherence...

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,...

This research report presents a case study of the application of the proposed methodology to Sudan using data captured...

Work area: Social Protection and Agriculture

Using rural economy-wide impact simulation methods and cost-benefit analysis, this study examines the impacts of individual and combined social...

Work area: Social Protection and Agriculture

Country: Lesotho

This in-depth qualitative study in Lesotho examines the impacts of linkages between the Lesotho Child Grants Programme (CGP), the second largest national social protection programme supporting poor...