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USAID's Partnership for Resilience and Economic Growth (PREG) brings together humanitarian and development partners to build resilience among Kenya’s vulnerable pastoralist communities in the country’s arid and semi-arid lands (ASAL). PREG focuses on nine vulnerable and high-risk areas and works with the Government of Kenya at both national and county levels to address underlying community vulnerabilities.  PREG’s goal is to assess how the range of USAID-supported interventions contributes to both community and household resilience capacities. In 2019, to promote learning and adapting within the activity, Kimetrica in collaboration with TANGO International, began conducting quarterly, recurring monitoring system (RMS) surveys of 800 households (a subset of the 2,700 households Kimetrica surveyed during the activity’s baseline evaluation in 2018). Each quarter, the RMS  alternates between conducting 30 key informant interviews and eight focus group discussions to avoid respondent fatigue. From September 2019 to June 2020, Kimetrica successfully conducted four rounds of RMS. Due to COVID-19, data collection was put on hold in mid-2020 but another round of RMS is anticipated to begin in mid-2021. This near real-time data allows USAID to understand how households’ resilience capacity affects their recovery from shocks.

USAID’s Partnership for Resilience and Economic Growth (PREG) brings together humanitarian and development partners to build resilience among Kenya’s vulnerable pastoralist communities in the country’s arid and semi-arid lands (ASAL). The partnership focuses on nine vulnerable and high-risk areas and works with the Government of Kenya at both national and county levels to address underlying community vulnerabilities. Kimetrica, in collaboration with its partner, TANGO International, conducted a mixed-method study to assess how the range of USAID-supported interventions contributes to both community and household resilience capacities, and how they improve household responses to shocks and well-being outcomes. Quantitative data collection consisted of a large-scale (2,700 households), representative baseline survey with questions that reflected dietary diversity and food availability, and included an anthropometric component to assess rates of malnutrition, which influence household vulnerability. Simultaneously, qualitative data were collected in the same areas through 32 focus group discussions and 49 key informant interviews to triangulate and understand gender differences. The results of this study served as an Endline for the Resilience and Economic Growth in the Arid Lands (REGAL) impact evaluation and as a Baseline Resilience impact evaluation for the larger PREG Northern Kenya intervention areas. Kimetrica’s work included CAPI-programming (Computer Assisted Personal Interviewing), using CSPro (Census and Survey Processing System), and all aspects of field data collection, from recruitment to training to survey implementation and data capture.