This is the second session of the series Public Works in a Changing Geopolitical and Climate Context: Lessons for the Future. It draws lessons from a restropective study of the impacts of assets for natural resource mangaement in Ethiopia and Kenya in order to learn lessons about PWP design and implementation, and how, when to use PWP. It explores methodologies to assess the livelihoods impacts of PWP assets, illustrating how a range of mixed methods evaluation techniques can be used to assess the livelihoods and resilience impacts of PWP assets created three to five years previously and identifies the factors that drove performance outcomes. More fundamentally, it will also discuss why there is so little evidence that PWP assets have the impacts that are claimed for them; and the underlying reasons why PWP have so often failed to create useful assets. This webinar is based on the SPARC/ODI paper: Do public works programmes create valuable assets for livelihoods and resilience? A retrospective study of the impacts of assets for natural resource management in Ethiopia and Kenya.
Speakers:
Anna McCord, Senior Research Associate, ODI
Simon Levine, Research Fellow in the Global Risks and Resilience programme, ODI Global
Discussants:
Amarjeet Sinha, Former Secretary, Ministry of Rural Development, India
Christo Marais, Former Chief Director of Natural Resource Management Programmes, Department of Environmental Affairs, South Africa
Moderator: Eva Ludi, Head of Regional Stewardship Hubs, Wyss Academy for Nature, Bern, Switzerland
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