The Bureau for Resilience and Food Security (RFS) leads USAID’s efforts to build countries’ resilience to climate change and other shocks and stresses and reduce hunger, poverty, malnutrition, and water insecurity worldwide. This includes activities implemented under the U.S. Government’s global hunger and food security initiative, Feed the Future.
Background
The Bureau for Resilience and Food Security (RFS) leads USAID’s efforts to build countries’ resilience to climate change and other shocks and stresses and reduce hunger, poverty, malnutrition, and water insecurity worldwide. This includes activities implemented under the U.S. Government’s global hunger and food security initiative, Feed the Future. Monitoring and assessing progress in areas of recurrent crisis on high-level outcomes such as humanitarian assistance averted requires data on households’ use of livelihood coping strategies that accurately signal acute food insecurity at different levels of severity
These coping strategies, including their associated severity levels, are expected to vary by country and livelihood type, but the evidence needed to develop context-specific coping strategy lists for use in population-based surveys and famine early warning systems is lacking. To fill this information gap, RFS has requested that ICF implement qualitative research primarily consisting of focus group discussions (FGDs) with residents in designated areas of six countries (resilience focus zones, or RFZs). ICF is seeking an experienced qualitative research organization based and registered in Uganda to assist with conducting this qualitative work there.
Objective
The primary objective of the work to be performed under this Statement of Work (SOW) is to:
The secondary objective is to:
