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Coping Strategies Woreda Training Workshop

Coping Strategies Woreda Training Workshop DPPA Livelihoods Integration Unit (LIU ) & Regional DPPB/FSB. What are Coping Strategies?. Coping strategies are the things that households do to try to increase their food and cash income after a shock or hazard. Session 10: Coping Strategies.

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Coping Strategies Woreda Training Workshop

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  1. Coping Strategies Woreda Training Workshop DPPA Livelihoods Integration Unit (LIU) &Regional DPPB/FSB

  2. What are Coping Strategies? Coping strategies are the things that households do to try to increase their food and cash income after a shock or hazard Session 10: Coping Strategies

  3. Some Typical Coping Strategies Examples include: • Increasing livestock sales • Collecting more wild foods • Sending more household members to do casual work in town or in the fields of other people, near or far Session 10: Coping Strategies

  4. Why are Coping Strategies Important in HEA? Analyzing coping strategies determines how much of a gap is left to be filled by external assistance Coping step example: 1 household member migrates for labour Hazard example: 50% crop failure The baseline picture Effect on access to crops Final result Session 10: Coping Strategies

  5. Why are Coping Strategies Important in HEA? Provides monitoring guidance to test and revise a predicted outcome Are people migrating? What is happening to daily wages? What is happening to food prices? Coping step example: 1 household member migrates for labour Final result Session 10: Coping Strategies

  6. How are Coping Strategies Analysed in HEA? Three types of coping strategy each has a cost attached to it • High cost/ Damaging or sociallyunacceptable/ strategies are left out of the analysis Why? Session 10: Coping Strategies

  7. How are Coping Strategies Analysed in HEA? Because the DPPA wants to prevent people from damaging their livelihoods just to survive. HEA helps identify appropriate points of intervention Session 10: Coping Strategies

  8. How are Coping Strategies Analysed in HEA? By leaving damaging coping strategy out of the analysis, we are saying that an intervention should occur before households have to revert to that option (i.e. prostitution, reduced consumption, child labour, excessive livestock sales, etc.) Session 10: Coping Strategies

  9. Coping Strategies: Cost Categories Session 10: Coping Strategies

  10. Coping Strategies: Cost Categories Session 10: Coping Strategies

  11. Coping Strategies: Cost Categories Session 10: Coping Strategies

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