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Change in ability to meet survival and livelihoods protection thresholds

Change in ability to meet survival and livelihoods protection thresholds

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Result Level:
  • Situation
Objectives:
  • Economic Security Situation
Description:

This indicator uses the HEA approach to determine households' survival and livelihoods protection thresholds and with shocks, their ability to meet their needs, using their coping strategies, as per the baseline. Rationale: People's ability to gain access to enough food, rather than only their ability to produce it themselves, determines their level of food security. The Household Economy Approach is a livelihoods-based framework for analyzing the way people obtain access to the things they need to survive and prosper.

Disaggregated By:

Geography/Livelihoods zone; Head of household’s gender, age, disabilities, chronic diseases, dependency ratio, and any other relevant criteria, such as urban/rural context, religious, ethnic or political identities; Wealth groups; Livelihoods group (e.g. pastoralist, farmers, traders); Period to achieve the objective;

Direction of change:
Data source:

Surveillance Baseline and progress (or endline) Seasonality needs to be considered. Data Collection methods: Households Survey, Focus Group Discussion; Secondary information, other stakeholders information

Sector/Subsector:
  • Economic Security
  • Food security
  • Livelihoods and Natural Resources Protection
Source: gFSC-1 gFSC-2 gFSC-4 HR-1
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Measure Notes:

Baseline: How did people meet their needs prior to the crisis? Progress: Have pre-crisis levels been re-established? Watch Out For! - HEA is an analytical framework, not a method of information collection. It defines the information that needs to be gathered and the way it should be analyzed in order to answer a particular set of questions. - Understanding change using the HEA framework relies on comparison with baseline data. As a result, HEA tools are not ideal for rapid-onset situations in which the HEA approach has not been previously used. For more details on methodology: EFD: The Household Economy Approach (HEA): http://www.efd.org/our-work/methods/the-household-economy-approach-hea/ Save the Children: The Household Economy Approach A guide for programme planners and policy-makers: https://www.savethechildren.org.uk/sites/default/files/images/HEA_Guide.pdf