In April 2020, we launched a COVID-19 Emergency Briefing Series with ISF Advisors to anticipate the potential impacts of COVID-19 on different types of rural households, and the cascading effects that could follow on markets, food security, and national security. This new learning brief examines the actual impacts of COVID-19 on rural households in Kenya using real stories and data collected from the field from mid-March through August 2020.
As with the COVID-19 Emergency Briefing series, this learning brief builds on the Pathways to Prosperity report by applying a pathways lens to better understand how the crisis is impacting different types of rural households that are pursuing diverse livelihood strategies and have varying levels of resilience to cope with shocks.