The Pastoralist Areas Resilience Improvement and Market Expansion (PRIME) project, funded under the United States Government’s Feed the Future initiative, was launched in October 2012 in one of the most shock-prone areas of the world, the drylands of Ethiopia. A key objective of the project is to enhance the resilience of households to shocks. In particular, it aims to enable households to withstand and recover from the recurrent climate-related
shocks—mainly drought—to which they are subjected. The analysis presented in this report is being undertaken as part of an impact evaluation (IE) whose goal is to determine whether the PRIME project has a positive impact on households’ resilience to shocks and, thus, on wellbeing outcomes including poverty, food security, and children’s nutritional status.