April 2017 — This handbook will assist practitioners and specialists in monitoring and evaluation in the selection of vulnerability assessment approaches for economic strengthening interventions. The focus is on programs for orphans and vulnerable children supported by the U.S. President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR), where economic strengthening is used to increase resilience to negative HIV-related outcomes for children. The handbook is intended primarily for development programs in relatively stable contexts rather than emergency relief work.
ASPIRES: Accelerating Strategies for Practical Innovation & Research in Economic Strengthening (fact sheet)
August 2015 — The ASPIRES project focuses on efficient provision of technical assistance to scale up high-quality interventions in the areas of consumption support, money management and income promotion. The project also focuses on design and implementation of rigorous research to evaluate programs and inform a new understanding of best practices in economic strengthening.
