Beyond Food Provision and Job Creation

ADRA Yemen will be presenting its findings on its IDEAL funded “Beyond Food Provision and Job Creation” study done in Yemen.

This study aimed to try to start understanding the impact that working with food aid through food vendors in FFP programs and working to rebuild livelihoods through business restoration in OFDA programs impacted communities beyond the primary objectives of food aid and livelihood restoration. The idea stems from “Market Systems Resilience” where the approach strategically targets businesses to address “market weaknesses”. In this study, ADRA wanted to know if the implicit strengthening of markets, by working with food vendors and restoring MSMEs, was also happening.

This presentation will summarize the findings and the methods used and further research that can be done to build on and improve the study.