On the 12th February SLRC were in DRC discussing initial survey findings to DFID Kinshasa office (the report will be out soon) and participants made up of the Provincial minister of Transport and Electricity of the ISDR, other Universities and (I)NGO's such as International Alert, IFDP, Employers Federation.

Last month the SLRC team went out to Uganda to work with our enumerators in preparation for conducting the SLRC survey.

This event was organised by the Secure Livelihoods Research Consortium (SLRC) to bring together academics and practitioners to debate the practical implications of the APPP synthesis report.

SLRC Nepal research team head out to conduct interviews in IIam 2012

In September 2012, SLRC's survey team, Jessica Hagen-Zanker and Bob Babajanian from ODI'S Social Protection Programme, conducted a workshop focussing on how to select locations and households for surveys as well as how to strengthen interview techniques and the challenges and ethics around conducting surveys.

Aid policy and programming in fragile and conflict-affected situations often assumes that investing in improved service delivery, justice and security can contribute to state-building and peace-building. Surveys are increasingly used to better understand the attitudes and perceptions of people in conflict-affected countries but their impact on decisions about aid interventions is less clear. This public meeting, organised by the Secure Livelihoods Research Consortium (SLRC) and hosted by ODI will explore the challenges associated with delivering perception surveys in fragile and conflict-affected situations (FCAS), share findings from two surveys in Haiti and Afghanistan and assess how far these two perceptions surveys have successfully influenced aid policies.