Livelihoods, conflict and aid programming: Is the evidence base good enough?

In conflict-affected situations, aid-funded livelihood interventions are often tasked with a dual imperative: to generate material welfare benefits and to contribute to peacebuilding outcomes. There may be some logic to such a transformative agenda, but does the reality square with the rhetoric? Through a review of the effectiveness of a range of livelihood promotion interventions—from job creation to microfinance—this paper finds that high quality empirical evidence is hard to come by in conflict-affected situations. Many evaluations appear to conflate outputs with impacts and numerous studies fail to include adequate information on their methodologies and datasets, making it difficult to appraise the reliability of their conclusions. Given the primary purpose of this literature—to provide policy guidance on effective ways to promote livelihoods— this silence is particularly concerning. As such, there is a strong case to be made for a restrained and nuanced handling of such interventions in conflict-affected settings.Department for International Development - PO511

Proposals for the Development of Chizela

SIGLEUuStB Koeln(38)-8006768 / FIZ - Fachinformationszzentrum Karlsruhe / TIB - Technische InformationsbibliothekDEGerman

Lecciones para reactivar agroindustrias rurales: La experiencia del añil en El Salvador

Presenta experiencias significativas en la promoción del desarrollo aplicables en la reactivación de agroindustrias rurales, en interés de la innovación en los productos, procesos y organización de la cadena. El trabajo de sistematización, comprende la evaluación del proceso de intervención del Proyecto de Reactivación de añil, destacando diferentes acciones interinstitucionales en la red de actores públicos y privados. El estudio comprende el uso de bibliografía disponible sobre el proceso de reactivación del añil en El Salvador, entrevistas individuales, visitas de campo y talleres con grupos focales