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Compiled by: Duncan Samikwa

December 2005


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National hunger and vulnerability inventories
These national inventories represent the initial stage of the national Knowledge Review and Gap Analysis (KRGA) exercises carried out by RHVP in its
six priority countries (Lesotho, Malawi, Mozambique, Swaziland, Zambia and Zimbabwe). In each country, the RHVP Country Coordinator (CC) is
responsible for assembly, cataloguing, storage and retrieval of relevant documentary and data resources into a National Hunger and Vulnerability
Inventory. This process is both backed up by, and feeds into, the RHVP Learning Network. The initial purpose of these inventories was to facilitate
the KRGA studies, but they also enable the CCs to disseminate rapidly, predominantly in electronic form, documents and data on hunger and
vulnerability, and methods and policies for addressing it, to stakeholders requesting such information. This important function of the CC posts is
central to RHVPs role of facilitating the spread of required knowledge within and between countries.
The separate national hunger and vulnerability inventories are as follows:

An inventory of all existing food security, early warning and vulnerability related information systems and activities in the country, including
details of methodologies used, institutional responsibilities, and frequency of assessments;

An inventory of key policies and strategies related to hunger and vulnerability, food security and social protection in the country;

An inventory of social protection programmes in the country;

A register of institutions and individuals in the country with whom the RHVP can work in undertaking the activities of the Evidence and other
components of the Programme;

A bibliography, associated with a physical library/electronic filestore, of existing knowledge on the state of hunger and vulnerability in the
country, including research reports, donor and NGO documents, documents or data produced by regional and international agencies, and
websites containing knowledge on hunger and vulnerability in the country.
During the lifetime of RHVP, the CCs will be responsible for ensuring that relevant new materials and items of information are added to the inventory

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as they become available, thus ensuring that the inventorys hunger and vulnerability resources are kept up-to-date.
At a later stage it is envisaged that the inventories will be more formally constituted into resources centres to be housed within an appropriate and
relevant institution. In most cases it is envisaged that they will link up with one or another of the existing VACs, crisis response, or social protection
agencies in each country, which would then assume responsibility for maintaining and managing the inventories after the end of RHVP.

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Bryceson, D.F.,
Fonseca, J. and J.
Kadzandira
Social Pathways from
HIV/AIDS Deadlock of
Disease, Denial and
Desperation in Rural
Malawi
CARE Malawi
May 2004
The report explores the livelihood strategies
and social forms that have evolved within
rural households and communities to contend
with the threat of HIV/AIDS. The aim of the
study was to identify points of opportunity for
nurturing social pathways that could propel
rural communities towards future well being.
The report traces community responses to the
three stages of HIV/AIDS disease cycle 1)
infection and transmission 2) debility and
death and 3) the aftermath of death
encompassing widows, orphans and
household reconstitution
Yes Yes
CARE Malawi

The Impact of HIV/AIDS
on Agricultural Systems
and Rural Livelihood In
the Central Region of
Malawi
CARE Malawi
January 2002
The HIV/AIDS pandemic has had a
debilitating impact on the livelihood of
farming households and their production
systems. The study therefore analyses the
type and extent of the HIV/AIDS impact on
the rural households of Central Malawi. The
study finds that there is positive correlation
between affected farming households and
their livelihood strategies. The study goes on
further to trace the main factors influencing
the intensity of the impact in 1) timing of the
sickness 2) duration of the sickness 3) social
Yes

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norms of marriage existing within a particular
society and 4) the relative economic status of
a household. It concludes that mobility linked
with rural livelihoods is a key determinant of
the extent of the spread of the pandemic
among rural households.
Chalimba, M.
and C. Pinder
Gender Power Relations
Study and the Impact of
Safety Nets In Malawi
CARE Malawi
November 2002
Considering that the main objective of the
Central Region Infrastructure Maintenance
Programme was to improve households
livelihood security among poor rural women,
the study assessed the impact of the safety
nets programme on household gender power
relations and the development of a gender
strategy that includes male household
members in future Safety Nets Programmes
(SNPs). The study therefore concludes that
though women are usually the most
vulnerable group, and thus the need for SNPs
to focus on them, however unequal gender
relations and power resulting from traditional
and cultural institutions have a negative
impact on the outcome of SNPs. The study
therefore recommends that designing of
future SNPs has to address such constraints
and has to include the provision of
opportunities to other gender groups in the
household as a way of initiating behavioural
change.
Yes Yes
Chirwa, E.W., P.M.
Mvula and B.M. Dulani
The Evaluation of the
Improving Livelihoods
Through Public Works
Programme (ILTPWP)
MASAF and
CARE International
June 2004
Public works employment programmes have
become an important tool for helping the
most vulnerable groups to move out of
poverty in Malawi. The study shows that
public works employment plays a major role
as a source of income in all districts,
particularly those that offered longer duration
Yes Yes

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of employment. The study concludes that
overall impact of the ILTPWP on targeted
beneficiaries has been positive in the short
term but that it remains doubtful whether
such improvements have led to sustainable
livelihoods.
Mvula, P.M., E.K.
Zgovu., E.W. Chirwa and
E. Kadzamira
Second Beneficiary
Assessment of the Public
Works Programme
(PWP)
MASAF November
2000
The report assesses the impact of the MASAF
public works programme on the beneficiary
households and the community. The report
concludes that MASAF PWP is a safety net
programme in which beneficiaries exchange
labour services in public works for money
wage while at the same time fostering
development at community level. The
assessment shows that the programme is
achieving its objective of ass