Recovering from severe drought in the drylands of Ethiopia: Impact of Comprehensive Resilience Programming

Lisa C. Smith and Timothy R. Frankenberger

World Development, 2022, vol. 156, issue C

Abstract: Developing-country households are facing an increasingly challenging set of shocks—including climate, economic, political, and health shocks—that in combination present a novel threat to their livelihoods and well-being, and thus to international development progress. There is a growing need to strengthen the evidence base for interventions and programming approaches that bolster households’ resilience to such shocks. In response, this paper documents an impact evaluation of the USAID-funded “Pastoralist Areas Resilience Improvement and Market Expansion” (PRIME) project implemented from 2012 to 2017 in one of the most shock-prone areas of the world, the drylands of Ethiopia. The project’s overall goal was to reduce poverty and hunger by enhancing households’ ability to recover from recurring climate shocks and their downstream economic impacts. As it were, soon after its inception, the drylands were hit by an exceptionally harsh and prolonged shock, a series of multiple, back-to-back, severe droughts.

Keywords: Resilience; Impact evaluation; Drought; Ethiopia (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2022
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DOI: 10.1016/j.worlddev.2022.105829

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