This event was hosted by UC Davis Global Affairs as a Global Conversations series. Promoting Women’s Resilience in Africa’s Arid Regions in the Age of COVID-19, was a one-hour online panel discussion focusing on how empowering women can provide the greatest return on investment for helping families and communities achieve a future free from poverty and food insecurity.

This MRR Innovation Lab and Global Resilience Partnership webinar highlights research that is deepening our knowledge of agricultural risk mitigation strategies and expanding our definition of resilience.

This conference in Nairobi, Kenya on the 14th of November 2019 was an opportunity to disseminate the research project's important results and discuss regional policy implications.

This event was an opportunity to present results from a multi-year project in Tanzania and Mozambique that indicates drought tolerant maize seeds provide significant protections against yield losses bolstering the resilience of farmers.

Researchers at the University of California, Davis in partnership with the BOMA Project in Kenya have combined two effective programs, poverty graduation, and insurance. This event will highlight new data pointing to the promise of this joint intervention to amplify and protect assets, creating resilient graduation from poverty for women and their families.

The aim of this International Center for Evaluation and Development conference is to identify and discuss accountability and responsibilities of stakeholders in the use of evidence to address developmental needs.

This two-day conference—hosted by the Uganda Ministry of Finance, Planning and Economic Development and the Ministry of Agriculture, Animal Industries and Fisheries in conjunction with the AMA Innovation Lab—highlighted ongoing challenges and shared information that will complement and add value to the agricultural insurance work already underway in Uganda.

This event expands the discussion on what perpetuates poverty and draws practical conclusions on how we can better design, target and evaluate development policies and interventions to create escapes and promote resilience.

Developed as a regional event, representatives of implementing organizations from Bangladesh, India and Sri Lanka worked closely with Nepalese organizations to discuss factors that impact agriculture insurance and mechanisms to overcome them.