Situational Analysis of Food, Nutrition and Income Security in Karamoja: “A normalising view of Karamoja” (December 2020)
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After decades of failing development aid, the World Food Programme (WFP) in Uganda has committed itself to identifying innovative approaches to better address food, nutrition and income insecurity in the Karamoja sub-region (referred to as Karamoja) of northeastern Uganda. For this purpose, Development Pathways was contracted to undertake a situation analysis to uncover the underlying causes of food, nutrition and income insecurity in Karamoja, and to generate ideas for innovative social policy solutions and provide recommendations.
The situation analysis demonstrates that development across Uganda is highly uneven. In several instances Karamoja scores worst when compared with other regions in terms of food security, poverty, education and healthcare indicators. The roots of Karamoja’s economic impoverishment can be traced back t
The COVID-19 pandemic and the lockdown measures to contain it have hit millions of people hard, with poverty set to increase sharply in almost every country for the first time in decades unless action is taken now, according to a new report by Oxfam.
Hundreds of millions of people have lost their jobs and income, and 2.7 billion people have not received any public financial support to deal with the economic devastation caused by the coronavirus pandemic, Oxfam said in the report published on Tuesday.
The report was compiled by Oxfam, a United Kingdom-based nonprofit, and consulting firm Development Pathways, which works with governments and organisations in developing economies.
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Oxfam: Over a third of the population without safety net to cope with Covid-19 economic crisis
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15 Dec 2020
Nine months on from the start of the pandemic, as many as 2.7 billion people - equivalent to over a third of the world’s population - have no publicly funded safety nets to fall back on to cope with its effects, new Oxfam research with Development Pathways has found.
While wealthy countries have pumped $9.8 trillion (£7.4 trillion) into their economies, including significant measures to support workers and the general population, the majority of low- and middle-income countries have not been able to deploy the same ‘whatever it takes approach’ to protecting their people and economies.
Wednesday, 16 December 2020, 8:16 am
New Oxfam research shows that over a third of the
world’s population has had no public money to cope with
the effects of the pandemic.
A new report “Shelter
from the Storm”, done in partnership with Development
Pathways, reviewed government schemes used to inject
additional money to help people, such as disability,
unemployment, child, and elderly benefits, for 126 low and
middle-income countries. It found none of them were adequate
to meet everyone’s needs.
Overall, the world has
spent an additional $11.7
trillion this year to cope with the fallout from the
coronavirus pandemic. Of this, $9.8 trillion (83%) was spent