The United States Agency for International Development has launched a new framework to tackle poverty and hardship in the Horn of Africa.
The framework will serve as a common reference for resilience programming throughout the Horn of Africa with the sponsors’ main aim being ending extreme poverty and promoting resilient, democratic societies.
Horn of Africa region stakeholders have been using Regional Resilience Framework 2.0 to guide resilience investments from 2012 to 2016.
However, the just-launched framework 3.0 which is evidence-based will offer new guidelines to tackle the situation.
“Informed by evidence and learning over the last four years and as a demand-driven product, the Regional Resilience Framework 3.0 will serve as a common reference for resilience programming throughout the region,” reads part of a statement on USAID’s website.
The framework reads in part that households with strong adaptive capacity can respond flexibly to longer-term social, economic, and environmental change.
It further states that adaptability relies on solid foundations of human, social, and economic capital.
The new framework is geared towards informing programme design to ensure they are risk-informed and shock responsive.
It was launched during a two-day USAID-funded Horn of Africa Resilience Network virtual learning event organised by the Resilience Learning Activity.
Stakeholders at the forum discussed the various shocks and stresses affecting the Horn of Africa, progress made in addressing these challenges, the lessons learned and key opportunities that could be tapped to improve the level of interventions.
It also comes amidst the global Covid-19 pandemic that has further complicated the situation in the Horn region that is already grappling with locust invasion, drought, and conflicts.
Edited by D Tarus