Wednesday, Jan. 30, 2019 - 14.00 pm - 15.30 pm
IFPRI Malawi, Area 14/205, Lilongwe
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IFPRI Malawi invites you to a Brown Bag Research Seminar presentation by
Arthur Chibwana (Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning Manager) at Christian Aid Malawi.
Topic
Towards a Capacity-Based Resilience Building for Social Cash Transfer Beneficiaries in Malawi
Abstract
Building resilience to food and nutrition insecurity amidst climate change among the ultra-poor under social protection requires providing the right dose of treatment interventions for impact. While targeting for Social Cash Transfer (SCT) programme requires that beneficiaries are ultra-poor and have limited access to resources, efforts to breaking the cycle of poverty and hunger must build on the idiosyncratic and covariate capacities available as a starting point.
Consistent with the MNSSP 2, Christian Aid and partners in EU’s Pro-ACT undertook to profile and categorize SCT beneficiaries based on their potential or capacity to step out, step up, or remain in need of continuous safety-nets in five districts. After the census, two primary groups (PG’s) were identified: PG-1 with those that are productive resource constrained (no land and/or labour potential) and PG-2 (with land and/or productive labour). Out of 26,095 SCT-beneficiaries covered, 36 percent and 64 percent were identified as PG-1 and PG-2, respectively. Following the study, resultant interventions in PG-1 included VS&L, small stock livestock, crisis modifiers, and nutrition behaviour change education. For PG-2 they included VS&L, lean season (labour-protecting) cash top ups, farm inputs, climate smart agriculture technologies and extension, livestock, irrigation, and nutrition behaviour change education.
Please RSVP to the IFPRI Malawi office (ifpri-lilongwe@cgiar.org) if you plan to attend, or designate someone to attend in your place, as space is limited.
