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Stephen Devereux - Research Fellow

Vulnerability and Poverty Reduction
T: +44 (0)1273 915760
E: s.devereux@ids.ac.uk

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Administrator:
Deborah Shenton

Thematic Expertise:
Agriculture; Food Security; ICTs; Nutrition; Social Protection.

Geographic Expertise:
Sub Saharan Africa; Botswana; Ethiopia; Ghana; Kenya; Lesotho; Malawi; Mozambique; Namibia; Rwanda; South Africa; Swaziland; Uganda; Zambia.

Dr Stephen Devereux is a development economist working predominantly on food security, famine, rural livelihoods, social protection and poverty reduction issues. His research experience has mainly been in eastern and southern Africa, especially Ethiopia, Malawi and Namibia.

His books include 'Fieldwork in Developing Countries', 'Theories of Famine', 'Food Security in Sub-Saharan Africa', 'The New Famines', 'Social Protection in Africa', and 'Social Protection for Africa's Children'.

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There is a new and widespread commitment within the development community to invest in agriculture as a way of reducing poverty and hunger. Three quarters of the one billion people surviving on less than $1 a day live and work in rural areas, and most rely on agriculture for their food and income. Investing in agriculture is key to lifting the world's poor out of hunger and poverty.

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Burundi Graduation Programme Evaluation
In December 2012, Concern Burundi launched its 'Graduation Model Programme' in two provinces in Burundi to work with extremely poor and marginalised communities.

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Destitution in the North East Highlands, Ethiopia

The project aimed to define and quantify destitution, to identify how people become destitute and what are the most appropriate policy measures to address destitution.

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Dowa Emergency Cash Transfers (DECT)
IDS were commissioned to carry out an external evaluation of the DECT programme.

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Employment Creation Programmes

IDS was contracted to write a paper on international experience with employment creation programmes (especially through the construction of infrastructure).

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Ending Famine in the 21st Century

IDS is coordinating a programme of work based on the belief that global eradication of famine is achievable in the foreseeable future. The ultimate objective of this policy-oriented research is to contribute to a new policy agenda for famine prevention.

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Ethiopia Productive Safety Net Programme

Two years after IDS led an assessment of the PSNP after its first year of operation, IDS and its partners have been commissioned to undertake a new study, to provide an update and analysis of key aspects of the PSNP programme.

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Evaluation of Social Cash Transfer Pilot Programme (SCTPP) in Tigray, Ethiopia
IFPRI and IDS have been commissioned by UNICEF Ethiopia to undertake an evaluation of the SCTPP. The evaluation will use both quantitative and qualitative methods and will be undertaken across two rounds in 2012 and 2014.

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FACT Malawi
Concern commissioned IDS to carry out an external evaluation of the FACT programme in Malawi

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Food Supply Crisis and Food Security in Malawi

Following the food crisis in Malawi in 2002, Action Aid commissioned IDS to try to unravel what went wrong and identify appropriate policies and responses to prevent similar crises in the future.

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Future Agricultures Consortium
The DFID funded Future Agricultures Consortium aims to encourage critical debate and policy dialogue on the future of agriculture in Africa. The Consortium is a partnership between research-based organisations in Africa and the UK, with work currently focusing on Ethiopia, Kenya and Malawi.

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Home Grown School Feeding programme
A new initiative that will support government action to deliver cost effective school feeding programmes sourced from local farmers in sub-Saharan Africa.

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Kenya Hunger Safety Net programme

IDS and partners have been commissioned by DFID on behalf of the Government of Kenya to carry out a Monitoring and Evaluation project, to assess the impact and efficiency of the Hunger Safety Net Programme (HSNP).

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Lesotho's Cash and Food Transfers project
World Vision commissioned IDS to carry out an independent evaluation of the Cash and Food Transfers Pilot Project (CFTPP) in Lesotho, to draw a comparison between the cash transfers and food plus cash transfer options.

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Making Cash Count

IDS conducted a study for UNICEF of cash transfer schemes in east and southern Africa, with a focus on supporting the most vulnerable children and households.

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Malawi Social Protection Framework

To support the formulation of Malawi's Social Protection Strategy in 2006, Department for International Development Malawi commissioned IDS to carry out a review of the international experience with a range of social protection instruments.

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Programme Partnership between Irish Aid and IDS on Hunger Reduction and Climate Change Adaptation
Four years on from Irish Aid's landmark Hunger Task Force Report, hunger reduction remains an enormous challenge. This will become more difficult in the context of resource scarcity, climate change, and an increased demand for food in the emerging economies.

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Swaziland’s Food and Cash Transfers project
IDS were commissioned to carry out an external evaluation of the Swaziland Food and cash Transfer programme.

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Evaluation Of The Social Cash Transfers Pilot Programme Tigray Region, Ethiopia

 (2012)
Berhane, G., Devereux, S., Hoddinott, J., Nega Tegebu, F., Roelen, K. and Schwab, B.

Global Implications of Somalia 2011 for Famine Prevention, Mitigation and Response

 Global Food Security Special Issue on the Somalia Famine of 2011-2012 (2012)
Haan, N., Devereux, S. and Maxwell, D.

Ending Hunger and Malnutrition

 IDS Virtual Bulletin 2 (2012)
Haddad, L. et al.

Shocks and Social Protection in the Horn of Africa: Analysis from the Productive Safety Net Programme in Ethiopia

 IDS Working Paper 395 (2012)
Béné, C., Devereux, S. and Sabates-Wheeler, R.

Seasonality, Rural Livelihoods and Development

 (2012)
Devereux, S., Sabates-Wheeler, R. and Longhurst, R. (editors)

Social Protection for Social Justice

 IDS Bulletin 42.6 (2011)
Devereux, S., Béné, C., Chopra, D., Koehler, G., Roelen, K., Sabates-Wheeler, R. and te Lintelo, D.

Transforming Livelihoods for Resilient Futures: How to Facilitate Graduation in Social Protection Programmes

 023 (2011)
Sabates-Wheeler, R. and Devereux, S.

Better Marginalised than Incorporated? Pastoralist Livelihoods in Somali Region, Ethiopia

 European Journal of Development Research 22 (2010)
Devereux, S.

Incorporating Seasonality into Agricultural Project Design and Learning

 In 'People-centred M&E: Aligning Incentives So Agriculture Does More to Reduce Hunger' (2010)
Pinto, Y., Haddad, L., Bonbright, D. and Lindstrom., J assisted by Atugba, E.

Book Review: ‘Famine: A Short History’, by Cormac O’Grada

 Journal of Agrarian Change 10.4 (2010)
Devereux, S.

Vulnerability to What?

 In 'Food Security and Global Environmental Change' (2010)
Ingram, J., Ericksen, P. and Liverman, D.

Social Protection for Africa’s Children

 In 'Social Protection for Africa’s Children' (2010)
Handa, S., Devereux, S. and Webb, D.

The Case for Social Protection for Children

 In 'Social Protection for Africa’s Children' (2010)
Handa, S., Devereux, S. and Webb, D.

Transformative Social Protection for Africa’s Children

 In 'Social Protection for Africa’s Children' (2010)
Handa, S., Devereux, S. and Webb, D.

Social Protection for Africa’s Children

 (2010)
Handa, S., Devereux, S. and Webb, D.

Seasonality and Social Protection in Africa

 Frontiers of Social Protection Brief 8 (2010)
Devereux, S. and White, P.

Democratising Social Welfare in Africa

 In 'The Political Economy of Africa' (2010)
Padayachee, V.

Using Technology to Deliver Social Protection: Exploring Opportunities and Risks

 Development in Practice 20.3 (2010)
Devereux, S. and Vincent, K.

Dependency and Graduation

 Frontiers of Social Protection Brief 5 (2010)
Devereux, S.

Seasonal Food Crises and Social Protection in Africa

 In 'The Comparative Political Economy of Development: Africa and South Asia' (2010)
Harriss-White, B. and Heyer, J.
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