MERCY CORPS EUROPE

Supporting Pastoralism and Agriculture in Recent and Protracted Crises (SPARC)

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Description

The Supporting Pastoralism & Agriculture in Recurrent & Protracted Crises (SPARC) programme will help poor and vulnerable people better cope with crises and increase their resilience to recurring shocks and protracted crisis and conflict by addressing evidence gaps on the effectiveness of different programmes and policies supporting, rebuilding, and increasing the resilience of agricultural livelihoods. As a result of the programme more people will have access to quality agricultural support during protracted and recurrent crisis.

Objectives

The objective of the programme is to develop evidence that will support the development of programmes, policies, technologies and systems that enable the most cost effective and efficient delivery of support to affected communities in situations of protracted and recurrent crisis, which are inclusive and equitable, and promote resilience and long-term sustainability. This will be achieved by: 1) Undertaking research in three priority areas a) How programmes delivering support to the agricultural sector can be designed and implemented more effectively. There is limited evidence of how to best protect, save and rebuild agriculture in protracted crises, a lack of evidence on what works, limited information on programme effectiveness and costs, and a lack of focus on the use of new technologies, and system innovations b) How to provide more effective support to poor households moving out of full or direct involvement in pastoralism: research is required on how to increase the percentage of non-livestock income, c) How to provide more effective support to poor households aiming to return to pastoralism: livestock ownership is becoming increasingly concentrated, crowding out many small-scale herders who make up by far the largest share of the livestock keeping population. 2) Supporting innovation and the use of technology in DFID and partner programmes: a) innovation in programmes, policies, technologies and systems will be critical in developing effective support to agriculture and pastoralist livelihoods. The programme will develop a set of priority areas for innovation and potential scaling.

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Location

The country, countries or regions that benefit from this Programme.

Ethiopia, Kenya, Somalia, South Sudan, Sudan, Syria, Uganda, Yemen

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