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Resilience and Sustainable Poverty Escapes

Photo by Knowledge-based Integrated Sustainable Agriculture and Nutrition (KISAN) Project, Nepal
Photo by Knowledge-based Integrated Sustainable Agriculture and Nutrition (KISAN) Project, Nepal

This collection highlights research commissioned by the USAID Center for Resilience aimed at expanding our understanding of the drivers of sustained and transitory poverty escapes across contexts and to draw out policy and programming implications that will contribute to USAID overall mandate. 

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A roadside mango stand

Resilience and Vulnerability of the Near-Poor: Evidence From Uganda and the Philippines

Recent research by ODI CPAN, commissioned by the USAID Center for Resilience, investigated the resilience of households above the poverty line in Uganda and the Philippines. The research aimed to...
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Center for Resilience

Mar 12, 2019
Resilience
Group of women in a field of blooming flowers

Resilience and Sustainable Poverty Escapes in Asia

Recent research commissioned by the USAID Center for Resilience and conducted by the Overseas Development Institute (ODI) examined why some households escape and remain out of poverty (sustainable poverty escape)...
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Center for Resilience

Feb 26, 2019
Monitoring, Evaluation, and Learning Resilience
Woman tending crops

Resilience and Sustainable Poverty Escapes in Malawi

Since 2000 Malawi has achieved four of the eight Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) including those on reducing child mortality and combating HIV/AIDS, malaria and other diseases. The country started the...
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Center for Resilience

Feb 13, 2019
Monitoring, Evaluation, and Learning Policy and Governance Resilience
Group of women standing outside

Resilience and Sustainable Poverty Escapes in Niger

The USAID Center for Resilience commissioned the Overseas Development Institute, in conjunction with the Chronic Poverty Advisory Network (CPAN), to conduct research on resilience and poverty escapes in Niger and...
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Center for Resilience

Feb 12, 2019
Policy and Governance Resilience
Woman sitting in a market stall

Resilience and Sustainable Poverty Escapes in Cambodia

Cambodia experienced rapid and sustained economic growth averaging nearly eight percent per year between 1994 and 2015, ranking sixth in the world for growth and attaining middle income status in...
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Center for Resilience

Feb 11, 2019
Policy and Governance Resilience
Two women walk past a wooded neighborhood

Resilience and Sustained Poverty Escapes Through Livelihood Diversification

In order to manage risk, successful farming increasingly takes place alongside diversification of livelihoods. As such, policy and program linkages within and between agriculture and other sectors are needed to...
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Andrew Shepherd

Feb 05, 2019
Agricultural Productivity Markets and Trade Resilience
Woman getting vaccinated in Ghana

Health, Resilience and Sustainable Poverty Escapes

Health intersects with resilience and sustained poverty escapes in at least three ways. Poor health can be a shock or stressor; act as an important form of human capital; and...
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Andrew Shepherd

Feb 04, 2019
Monitoring, Evaluation, and Learning Resilience
Two people selling goods at a market stall

Resilience and Sustainable Poverty Escapes in the Philippines

The Philippines has experienced a significant reduction of poverty in the past 25 years. Poverty dropped from 27 percent in 1991 to eight percent in 2015 according to the international...
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Center for Resilience

Sep 06, 2018
Policy and Governance Resilience
Woman carrot seller in Tanzanian market. Photo credit: USAID Tanzania

Resilience and Sustainable Poverty Escapes in Tanzania

Transitory poverty escapes and impoverishment are a problem in Tanzania despite a notable fall in poverty since 2000. Indeed, the proportion of households experiencing sustained escapes only just exceeds the...
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Center for Resilience

Aug 27, 2018
Policy and Governance Resilience
Farmer and field staff in Menwe village, Kenya.

Resilience and Sustainable Poverty Escapes in Rural Kenya

The USAID Center for Resilience commissioned the Overseas Development Institute, in conjunction with the Chronic Poverty Advisory Network (CPAN), to conduct research into resilience and poverty escapes in select Feed...
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Center for Resilience

Aug 01, 2018
Monitoring, Evaluation, and Learning Resilience

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Additional Resources

Resilience on Agrilinks
Sustaining escapes from poverty: Working Paper from the Overseas Development Institute
Resilience Training: Measurement, Livelihood Diversification and Sustainable Poverty Escapes
New World Bank projections mask reality of poverty mobility (blog)
Sustainable Poverty Escapes: What Resilience and Risk Factors Really Matter? - Event Resources
Resilience and Sustainable Poverty Escapes: Implications for Programming
Health, Resilience and Sustainable Poverty Escapes
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