Assessing transitory poverty among pastoralists of northern kenya using the stages of progress method
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Assessment of poverty among pastoral households using conventional methods may at times
give an inaccurate picture of pastoral poverty. Pastoral areas generally fare very poorly in
terms of common standard indicators and are thus likely to be incorrectly labeled as poor
(Devereux, 20071; Tache and Sjaastad, 20102). As a consequence of the limitations of
conventional methods in accurately measuring the degree of pastoral poverty and establishing
the reasons behind pastoral impoverishment, there has been disconnect between external
interventions and actual pastoral needs. This study applied the stages of progress method
(Krishna 20103) to establish movement of pastoral households into or out of poverty and
reasons for change in two Counties of northern Kenya: Turkana and Mandera.
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