The Secure Livelihoods Research Consortium (SLRC) is an eight year global research programme exploring livelihoods, basic services and social protection in conflict-affected situations.
Who we are
Who we are
The Secure Livelihoods Research Consortium (SLRC) is a global research programme exploring basic services, and social protection in fragile and conflict-affected situations. Funded by UK Aid from the UK government (FCDO), with complementary funding from Irish Aid and EC, SLRC was established in 2011 with the aim of strengthening the evidence base and informing policy and practice around livelihoods and services in conflict.
The Overseas Development Institute (ODI) is the lead organisation. SLRC partners include:
- Centre for Poverty Analysis (CEPA)
- Feinstein International Center (FIC, Tufts University)
- Focus1000
- Afghanistan Research and Evaluation Unit (AREU)
- Sustainable Development Policy Institute (SDPI)
- Wageningen University (WUR)
- Nepal Centre for Contemporary Research (NCCR)
- Busara Center for Behavioral Economics
- Nepal Institute for Social and Environmental Research (NISER)
- Narrate
- Social Scientists’ Association of Sri Lanka (SSA)
- Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO)
- Women and Rural Development Network (WORUDET)
- Claremont Graduate University (CGU)
- Institute of Development Policy and Management (IOB, Univeristy of Antwerp)
- International Institute of Social Studies (ISS, Erasumus Univeristy of Rotterdam)
SLRC is led by a global team based at the Overseas Development Institute in London, UK:
- Mareike Schomerus, Research Director
- Jessica Hagen-Zanker, Research Fellow
- Aoife McCullough, Research Fellow
- Stephanie Buell, Programme Manager
- Laura Mertsching, Programme Officer
- George Richards, Communications Officer
Funded by UK Aid from the UK government, Irish Aid and EC
