An ex-post evaluation of a nutrition-and-gender-sensitive agricultural intervention in Bangladesh found continuance of program effects, among more intensively treated groups. Bundling nutrition and agriculture training may contribute to resilience as well as to sustained impacts on consumption, women’s empowerment, and asset holdings in the medium term.

Using a four-year post-endline followup survey of households from a cluster-randomized controlled trial of ANGeL, a nutrition-and-gender-sensitive agricultural intervention in Bangladesh, this study suggests that bundling nutrition and agriculture training may contribute to resilience as well as to sustained impacts on consumption, women’s empowerment, and asset holdings in the medium term.

A budgeting activity in Zambia increased savings and annual crop output, results that show this kind of intervention at the time of harvest could help address cyclical food shortages while improving future welfare. 

This MRR Concept Note builds out how blended indexed financial tools work in practice, providing additional guidance on how each indexed tool works in good and bad years, as well as how a long-term package can change over time to meet farmers' needs.

Midline results from an ongoing impact evaluation in northern Kenya found that a comprehensive livelihood building program yielded substantial economic benefits for women directly enrolled as well as their non-enrolled neighbors.

USAID-supported research from Bangladesh in partnership with BRAC found that households pre-approved for an indexed line of credit in the event of a flood disaster had higher consumption and productivity, paired benefits previously only found with insurance.

Resilience+ (also Resilience-Plus) describes when rural families are more immediately able to withstand a shock and when that knowledge increases their investment in agricultural productivity. Generating Resilience+ could accelerate efforts to reduce poverty and spur agricultural growth.

The additional income generated by a large-scale agricultural extension program in Uganda reduced malaria infections by increasing rates of bednet ownership.

In recent years, economists have evolved a theory of poverty traps in ways that have changed how we think about creating opportunity for those in desperate need, suggesting new directions that could indeed lead us to the global end of poverty.