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Application Deadline: June 30th 2021 The Krystle Kabare Scholarship  –  which was launched in 2019 in memory of Krystle Kabare, a much-beloved staff member of Development Pathways – contributes to the educational development of a Kenyan with a disability.  The scholarship will be awarded to a prospective Master’s degree student, within the fields of:  Public Health, Anthropology, Economics, Sociology, Social Statistics or other relevant fields. The successful scholarship recipient will also be granted the opportunity to intern at the Development Pathways ...

Program/Project Management Consultancy about Coordination and Safety and Security, requiring 10+ years of experience, from Development Pathways; closing on 14 Feb 2021

Situational Analysis of Food, Nutrition and Income Security in Karamoja: “A normalising view of Karamoja” (December 2020) Format Executive Summary 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,...

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 Devel...

Oxfam: Over a third of the population without safety net to cope with Covid-19 economic crisis Format 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...