More than 300 leaders from world governments, the donor community, researchers and the private sector participated in the ICED “Evidence to Action Conference 2018” in Nairobi on July 24-25 to enhance sustainable collaboration and knowledge sharing and to reinforce demand-driven, evidence-based policy.
Poverty graduation programs, which transfer assets and skills, can set women on a path toward higher income and greater empowerment at home, but in the arid rural parts of northern Kenya drought can force them to liquidate their gains so the family can survive.
Poverty graduation programs, which transfer assets and skills, can set women on a path toward higher income and greater empowerment at home, but in the arid rural parts of northern Kenya drought can force them to liquidate their gains so the family can survive.
A randomized controlled trial in western Kenya recently explored how a region's local weather and ecological conditions might affect hybrid maize yields and their impact on poverty and food security.
A randomized controlled trial in western Kenya recently explored how a region's local weather and ecological conditions might affect hybrid maize yields and their impact on poverty and food security.
The Feed the Future Innovation Lab for Assets and Market Access has just launched a $1.4 million project in Kenya to evaluate the impacts of combining programs that offer training, support and aid with affordable insurance to reduce chronic poverty.
The Feed the Future Innovation Lab for Assets and Market Access has just launched a $1.4 million project in Kenya to evaluate the impacts of combining programs that offer training, support and aid with affordable insurance to reduce chronic poverty.
In 2011, a massive drought in Sub-Saharan Africa claimed the lives of Huka Bidu’s entire herd of cows. Determined not to begin again from nothing, the pastoralist and father of two in the southern Ethiopian village of Malble Yabello purchased a livestock insurance policy.
On February 20, Government of Kenya officials, in partnership with Kenyan insurers, announced payments to over 12,000 pastoral households under a breakthrough livestock insurance plan.
On February 20, Government of Kenya officials, in partnership with Kenyan insurers, announced payments to over 12,000 pastoral households under a breakthrough livestock insurance plan.
