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Project Summary
This project is a collaborative research project between DERG and the Policy Studies Institute (PSI), previously Ethiopian Development Research Institute). It has compared and evaluated the drivers of resilience to climate change examining actions taken at the household and village/district level. Moreover, the project has analysed the effects of large-scale interventions, including the Productive Safety Net Programme and the Sustainable Land Management Project.
The overall aim has been to assist policy-makers in Ethiopia to identify resilience-promoting strategies that work the best. The novelty of the research lies in its ability to compare and assess different approaches to achieving climate change resilience in a consistent, and evidence-based framework. The three long-term objectives are to:
- increase existing academic knowledge,
- enhance local human and institutional capacity to analyse resilience, and
- improve policies that lead to better living conditions for millions of farmers exposed to climate change.
Methodologically, the project approach is data-driven and has used both descriptive analysis and econometric techniques. We have used existing nationally representative datasets, and our own follow-up survey specifically designed to identify the drivers of resilience. The project has included five work packages:
- identifying resilient households, villages, or districts;
- implementation of focused survey with a resilience-oriented sampling frame;
- investigating the effects of local innovative actions on resilience,
- studying the effects of participation in a productive social safety net (PSNP), and
- analysing the role of sustainable land management projects.
Capacity building included two PHD students from the economics department at Addis Ababa University (AAU) who were enrolled and given supervision from both members of PSI and DERG. They also benefitted from extended research stays in Copenhagen.
Project Period
April 1, 2019 and date of termination: 31 December, 2024.
Project Budget
Total project budget= 11,077,028 DKK out of which 4,464,773 DKK was allocated to the responsible institution and 6,582,255 DKK goes to partner institution.
Funding
The Project was funded by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Denmark.