• Impact

• Disaster Risk Reduction and Natural Resources Management

Decrease in severity of crisis impact / lean season impact indicates: - improved adaption and reduced loss, proxy for improved household food and livelihood resilience. - strengthened and stabilized livelihoods, proxy for reduced household vulnerability. - effective early warning and response to prevent further deterioration of the situation.

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;

• Decrease (distance)

Both secondary and primary data collection can be used according to context. Baseline/Endline. If multiyear programme depending on comparison requirements between lean season and other seasons, consider an interim reporting/evaluation Secondary data. Reliable/relevant sources from other actors, clusters or government. Data Collection methods: Secondary data analysis; Households Survey, Focus Group Discussion; Observation; Ministry records, Stakeholder data/reports, Donor/NGO records;

• Economic Security
• Livelihoods and Natural Resources Protection

> Number of households depleting assets during lean season to provide food for the family > Number of assets depleted > Length of recovery time needed by households after lean season > Number of communities affected by shocks relative to baseline > Number of households affected by shocks relative to baseline > Number of assets lost/damaged by shocks relative to baseline > Length of recovery time needed by households/community after shock relative to baseline > Amount of aid being spend for shock recovery programme relative to baseline - Includes seasonal or regular hunger and social safety nets, this can be in form of food, cash, income/employment support, etc. Main underlying objective should always be nutrition, food and livelihood security. - Needs to consider application across and contribution from various sectors. - Needs to consider linkages with asset ownership, MAHFP, etc. indicators - Needs to consider duration of the safety net transfer programme, as means availability might be a temporary measure - Needs to consider various levels of surveillance systems, e.g. household level surveillance, community surveillance, nutrition surveillance, GIS surveillance, ground water surveillance, etc. - Surveillance/EWS recommendations could be food or cash assistance, scale up of emergency nutrition programmes, livestock emergency interventions, e.g. destocking, fodder distribution and vaccination campaigns, etc. - Needs to link to other thematic monitoring indicators e.g. for livestock, nutrition, cash and food assistance, safety net and DRM/NRM programmes