Households around the world face various shocks, including climatic, economic, environmental, and conflict-related stresses. Such shocks impact household livelihoods in numerous domains including physical, human, and social capital. In the absence of strong institutional support to help absorb these shocks, households are forced to adopt harmful coping strategies to ensure adequate food security and welfare. In the long-run, this can leave households more vulnerable to future shocks, creating poverty traps. ISDC studies how households adapt to various community-level and idiosyncratic shocks and evaluates how humanitarian and development programs assists the most vulnerable households in their adaptation strategies. We focus particularly on the analysis of shocks and livelihoods in conflict-affected, fragile and humanitarian settings.
Shocks & Livelihoods
- Gendered effects of climate and conflict shocks on food security in Sudan and the mitigating role of social protection
- Effects of the Intensity and Duration of COVID-19 Lockdown Policies on the Use of Coping Strategies: Evidence from Four African Countries
- Shocking social safety: Evidence from violence and drought in North-east Nigeria
- The impacts of armed conflict on human development: A review of the literature
- Gender Dimensions of Forced Displacement: A Brief Review and Introduction to the Special Issue
- The Double Burden of Female Protracted Displacement: Survey Evidence on Gendered Livelihoods in El Fasher, Darfur
- Impacts of early action support on lives and livelihoods in South Sudan: The Life in Bentiu Study – Final impact report
- Prevalence of Depression and Associated Socio-economic Outcomes during Violent Conflict: A Matched Analysis for Palestine Using Nationally Representative Survey and Conflict Event Data
- Armed conflict and gendered participation in agrifood systems: Survey evidence from 29 African countries
- Ethnic Cooperation and Conflict in Kenya
- Home garden interventions in crisis and emergency settings
- Coping with Compounding Challenges in Conflict Crises: Evidence from North-east Nigeria
- State-Based Conflict and Entrepreneurship – Empirical Evidence
- Mental Health in the West Bank and Gaza
- Monitoring and Impact Analysis of the EU-Funded Smallholder Support Programme (SSP) for Agriculture Transformation
- Violent conflict moderates food security impacts of agricultural asset transfers in Syria: A heterogeneity analysis using machine learning
- The Life with Corona Survey
- Effects of the intensity and duration of COVID-19 lockdown policies on the use of coping strategies:Evidence from four African countries
- Building Stability Between Host and Refugee Communities: Evidence from a TVET Program in Jordan and Lebanon
- Weather shocks across seasons and child health: Evidence from a panel study in the Kyrgyz Republic
- Data Options for Assessing Gender Dimensions of Forced Displacement : A Background Note
- Syria: Do complex agricultural interventions strengthen food security? (Evidence brief)
- Supporting Emergency Needs, Early Recovery and Longer-term Resilience in Syria’s Agriculture Sector (Endline Report 2021)
- The Double Burden of Female Protracted Displacement: Survey Evidence on Gendered Livelihoods in El Fasher, Darfur
- Drivers of food choice among children and caregivers in post-earthquake Nepal
- Life With Corona: Increased Gender Differences in Aggression and Depression Symptoms Due to the COVID-19 Pandemic Burden in Germany
- Inter-relationships between Fragility and Poverty: A Micro-level Analysis in Kenya
- Effects of poverty on fragility: A micro-level analysis in Kenya
- Analysing the Role of Employment Programmes in Building Peace and Stability
- A White Paper on Identifying Priority Variables on Households, Firms and Markets for Understanding Micro-Dynamics of Food Security in Insecure Situations
- Monitoring and Impact Analysis of the BMZ and EU-funded FAO Resilience Programme in Syria
- Supporting Emergency Needs, Early Recovery and Longer-term Resilience in Syria’s Agriculture Sector
- Data Gap Analysis for SDG-16 In Uganda
- Conflict and development. Recent research advances and future agendas
- The Nexus of Food, Drought and Conflict: Evidence from a Case-Study on Somalia
- Can Jobs Programs Build Peace?
- New Report: Life with Corona – Shared Global Sentiments and Stark Generational Divides
- Trust in the Time of Corona
- What Works And What’s Next For Social Stability In Jordan?
- The World Food Programme’s Contribution to Improving the Prospects for Peace in Kyrgyzstan
- Social Protection in Contexts of Fragility and Forced Displacement: Introduction to a Special Issue
- Rural Youth in the Context of Fragility and Conflict
- Micro-Foundations of Fragility: Concepts, Measurement and Application
- Assets for Alimentation? The Nutritional Impact of Assets-Based Programming in Niger
- Determinants and Dynamics of Forced Migration to Europe: Evidence from a 3-D Model of Flows and Stocks
- Can Jobs Programs Build Peace
- The Economics of Counterterrorism: A Survey
- Activity Choices of Internally Displaced Persons and Returnees: Quantitative Survey Evidence from Post-War Northern Uganda
- The effects of violent conflict on household resilience and food security: Evidence from the 2014 Gaza conflict
- Strengthening Food Security in Acute Crisis Settings: First Insights from North-east Nigeria
- Drivers of Resilience and Food Security in North-east Nigeria: Learning from Micro Data in an Emergency Setting
- Food security and violent conflict: Introduction to the special issue
- Jobs Aid Peace: Review of the Theory and Practice of the Impact of Employment Programmes on Peace in Fragile and Conflict-affected Countries
- The Relationships between Food Security and Violent Conflict. A Report to the Food and Agriculture Organization
- The Impact of Job Quality on Wellbeing: Evidence from Kyrgyzstan
- Food Security and Conflict: Empirical challenges and future opportunities for research and policy making on food security and conflict
- Social protection in complex humanitarian settings
- The ‘Life in Bentiu’ Study
- Impact Evaluation on Re-targeting WFP’s Humanitarian Assistance in Lebanon
- Measuring Food System Resilience in Sudan
- Violent Conflict and Forced Displacement: Evidence on Social Behavior and Economic Well-Being Among Refugees in Jordan
- Socio-economic impacts of violent conflict and climate change
- Impact Assessment for the Building Local Resilience in Syria (BLRS) Project
- Climate Change Vulnerability Among Refugees in Jordan
- Support for the FAO Impact Analysis of the “Restoring food and nutrition security of affected Farming and pastoral communities in Sudan” project
- Impact Evaluation of OCHA’s Anticipatory Action in Bentiu, South Sudan
- Impact Evaluation of a Social Safety Net Intervention in the Republic of Congo
- The Gendered Impacts of Armed Conflict on Economic Activity
- Resilience in North-East Nigeria
- Mental Health in the West Bank and Gaza
- Gendered Dimensions of Protracted Forced Displacement in Sudan
- Gendered Dimensions of Forced Displacement in North-east Nigeria
- Life with Corona in Africa
- Addressing the challenges of the forcibly displaced and their host communities in the ESCWA region
- The Micro-level Analysis of the Impact of Violent Conflict on Lives and Livelihoods in the MENA Region
- Agricultural Transformation in Syria: Impact Evaluation of FAO’s Smallholder Support Program
- Gendered Dimensions of Forced Displacement
- Home Gardens For Resilience and Recovery (HG4RR)
- Seeds of Resilience: A Quasi-experimental Impact Analysis of an FAO Emergency Intervention in Syria
- Measuring Violent Conflict in Micro-Level Surveys: Training Course
- Micro-level Linkages between Poverty and Fragility
- How to Better Measure and Analyze Food Insecurity in Conflict-affected Areas
- Rural Youth in the Context of Fragility and Conflict
- Impact Analysis of Food Security Interventions in North-East Nigeria
- Micro-Foundations of Fragility: Concepts, Measurement and Application
- Does Opportunity Reduce Instability? A Meta-Analysis of Skills and Employment Interventions in LMICs
- Sowing and Harvesting Peace for Food Security
- Drivers of Mixed Migration: Analyzing the Determinants and the Role of Development and Security Policies in the MENA Region
- Micro-data on Households, Markets and Firms in Crisis: Understanding micro-economic impact and response to shocks in hard to reach environments
- Impact Analysis of a Food Security and Resilience Program in Syria
- Conflict and development. Recent research advances and future agendas
- ANH Learning Lab: Conducting Impact Evaluations in Conflict Settings
- KOSMOS Lecture: Towards Zero Hunger
- 20th Annual Households in Conflict Network (HiCN) Workshop
- 19th Annual Households in Conflict Network Workshop
- War and Reconstruction in Ukraine – an Academic Workshop
- CEDIL Policy Workshop 2022
- Final Webinar in the HG4RR Webinar – Home Gardening under challenging conditions – Concern’s experience from Niger and Bangladesh
- HG4RR Webinar Series: Impact of home gardens on household dietary diversity and micronutrient status in rural Tanzania
- 17th Annual Workshop of the Households in Conflict Network: Conflict, Migration, and Displacement
- HG4RR Webinar Series: Nutrition Income Generation Intervention, Uganda
- HG4RR Webinar – Session #3
- HG4RR Webinar Series – Session #2
- HG4RR Webinar Series – Session #1
- Workshop on Home Gardens as a Coping Strategy in Crises and Humanitarian Emergencies
- 2019 Life in Kyrgyzstan Conference