Secure Livelihoods Research Consortium

Over the last decade, the international community has allocated billions of dollars in funding for programming in livelihoods, service provision and social protection; however there has been little accompanying investment in research as a sector or as an internal capacity. Livelihoods remain under researched in Afghanistan.

Samuel Hall Consulting was commissioned by the Overseas Development Institute (ODI) to conduct 25 stakeholder consultations with organisations involved in the implementation, co-ordination, oversight, funding or management of livelihoods, social protection and service provision in Afghanistan. The consultations are intended to inform the creation as well as the research uptake, capacity building and monitoring and evaluation strategies of a Secure Livelihoods Research Consortium (SLRC), a Department for International Development (DfID) funded initiative.