Coping Strategies are mechanisms that people choose as a way of living through difficult times. Some coping strategies are easily reversible: for example, short-term dietary changes, migration of individuals for work, and use of savings or solidarity networks. Some coping strategies have longer-term consequences and may be damaging to livelihoods and to health: for example sell of productive assets (such as land, fishing tools, shop licence or delivery van), taking children out of school to send then to work (child labour) or beg, or prostitution. “Coping has come to indicate both current difficulties and a worsening situation, an early warning indication of what is yet to come” (Maxwell 2013) 

Reference: [Household Economic Security (HES) Technical Guidelines for Assessment Analysis and Programme Design - British Red Cross, 2020]