Enhancing Resilience in the Horn of Africa: An Evidence-Based Workshop on Strategies for Success (Agenda)

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USAID
Date Published:
December 13, 2011

This event was jointly hosted by the U.S. Agency for International Development’s Bureau for Democracy, Conflict, and Humanitarian Assistance, Bureau for Food Security, and Bureau for Africa In partnership with the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) and the USAID/Office of Food for Peace-funded TOPS Program in support of the Feed the Future Initiative.

Workshop Objectives:

  • Foster a common understanding of what is meant by resilience and resilience programming;
  • Identify successful strategies and enabling conditions to build resilience, as well as lessons learned from less successful strategies;
  • Demonstrate the value of resilience programming in mitigating the effect of shocks and recovery from them, and its potential role in any “pathway out of poverty;” and
  • Identify the linkages between resilience and economic growth.

Read about the workshop on the USAID Impact Blog.

Filed Under: Event Material, Agriculture, Risk Management, Food Security, Natural Resources Management, Poverty Reduction, Enabling Environment, Capacity Building, Governance, Infrastructure

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PDF of Agenda

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