Advanced EFSA Learning Programme Session 3.3. Situation Analysis Step 4 Analysis of Coping Strategies 1

Advanced EFSA Learning Programme Learning Objectives After the session, participants should be able to:  Describe the role & value of coping strategies analysis in assessing levels of food insecurity and how, when combined with food insecurity findings, coping strategies can inform the evaluation of the risks confronting HHs impacted by crisis  Explain the method of calculating – and the limitations of – the Coping Strategies Index 2

Advanced EFSA Learning Programme Where are we? 3 EFSA Process Adapt conceptual framework & objectives Prepare analysis plan: indicators, data, sources Collect, review secondary data Collect primary data Conduct situation analysis Conduct forecast analysis Analyse response options Make response recommendations Prepare report

Advanced EFSA Learning Programme 4 Analysis of coping strategies  Complements food security analysis  Helps determine the level of risk to lives and livelihoods at the household level  Coping Strategies Index (CSI) often used to structure analysis of coping 4

Advanced EFSA Learning Programme How to analyze coping strategies? Identify context specific coping strategies Make sure you also collect the 5 ‘core’ food consumption coping strategies Establish severity of local coping strategies through focus group discussions (FGDs), key informants If possible, use FGDs to design HH questionnaire Compare with baseline information if available 5

Advanced EFSA Learning Programme Severity ranking 6

Advanced EFSA Learning Programme Calculation of CSI 7

Advanced EFSA Learning Programme Example: context specific interpretation Coping Strategies used in Dili, September 2007 Last 0-3 months Never1-2 / week “Once in a while” 3-6 / week “Pretty Often” “Daily” 1. Borrowing money 2. Using savings 3. Reduced number of meals/day 4. Eating less preferred food 5. Reducing meal size 6.Borrowed food 7.Skipped days without eating 8. Restrict consumption for adults 8

Advanced EFSA Learning Programme 5 core food consumption coping strategies  Eating less preferred foods – severity 1.0  Limiting portions at meal-time - severity 1.0  Reducing number of meals per day – severity 1.0  Borrowing food/money from friends and relatives – severity 2.0  Limiting adult intake – severity 3.0 9

Advanced EFSA Learning Programme Coping strategies and risks to lives and livelihoods Examples of coping strategies that may put lives at risk:  Skipping meals  Full days without eating  Reducing quantities and quality of food  Foregoing use of health services Examples of coping strategies that may put livelihoods at risk:  Depleting productive assets  Excessive indebtedness  Prolonged out-migration  Consuming seed stocks 10

Advanced EFSA Learning Programme HH risks to lives & livelihoods Use coping strategies and food insecurity to:  Gauge severity of situation:  Proportions of food (in)secure households using coping strategies that put their lives or livelihoods at risk  Identify priority interventions:  To minimize use of negative coping strategies 11

Advanced EFSA Learning Programme Exercise 3.3.a. Household Coping Strategies Strategies that put livelihoods at risk.  Use Worksheet.  20 minutes 12

Advanced EFSA Learning Programme Exercise 3.3.b. Scoring Coping Strategies Calculate: Coping strategy index  Use Worksheet  25 minutes 13