“Like a good trip to town without selling your animals”: A study of FAO Somalia’s Cash for Work programme

“Like a good trip to town without selling your animals”: A study of FAO Somalia’s Cash for Work programme

Impact Evaluation Report

Year of publication 2013

Place of publication Rome, Italy ;

Pages 124 p.

Publisher FAO ;

Product type Document

Series title Thematic Evaluation Series

Edition 1

Full item page

Language English

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