1. FAO of the UN
IAPIG Meeting
Jerusalem, 28 January 2010
Household Resilience in West Bank & Gaza Strip An application using SEFSec
Erdgin Mane & Luca Alinovi
Agricultural and Development Economics Division FAO of the UN

2. Source: Alinovi, Mane & Romano, 2008
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Definition of Household Resilience
The ability of the household to keep with a certain level of well-being (e.g. food security) withstanding shocks and stresses, depending on:
- the options available to the household to make a living
- its ability to handle risks
Source: Alinovi, Mane & Romano, 2008

3. Why Resilience? Poverty, Vulnerability and Resilience
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Why Resilience?
Poverty, Vulnerability and Resilience
- Dynamic versus Static Approach
- Short- versus Long-Run Approach
Resilience of what?
- Households as (sub)systems
- Relationships with the broader food system
System definition (Spedding, 1988)
“A group of interacting components, operating together for a common purpose...”
 Household System and Resilience
Spedding (1988: 18) definition of system as “a group of interacting components, operating together for a common purpose, capable of reacting as a whole to external stimuli: it is affected directly by its own outputs and has a specified boundary based on the inclusion of all significant feedback.”

4. Resilience Conceptual Framework
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Resilience Conceptual Framework T0 T1
Social Safety
Nets
Access to Basic Services
Assets
Income and
Food Access
Adaptivity
Stability
Endogenous Shocks
Exogenous Shocks
Household Response Mechanisms
Programme Policy Support

5. Components and Observed Indicators (West Bank)

6. The components in 5 Governorates
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The components in 5 Governorates

7. Resilience by Locality Type in West Bank
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... discussing results
Resilience by Locality Type in West Bank

8. Resilience Distribution in Gaza Strip

9. Resilience Components in Gaza Strip

10. ...Go Beyond that! Water Sewage Electricity Telephone Medicals N
Water
Sewage
Electricity
Telephone
Medicals N
North Gaza
0.973
0.974
0.964
0.269
0.967
1513
Gaza
0.930
0.984
0.843
0.542
0.895
2077
Deir Al Balah
0.966
0.900
0.692
0.362
0.879
1783
Khan Yunis
0.989
0.374 ???
0.144 ???
0.355
0.896
952
Rafah
0.978
0.936
0.934
0.306
0.927
1203
Total GS
0.960
0.856
0.730
0.402
0.910
7528

11. Is the Refugee Status important?

12. What about Gender?

13. Conclusions and Follow Up
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Conclusions and Follow Up
Analyzing household resilience in a systemic manner improves policy decisions (long- versus short-run response mechanisms)
Comprehensive and Comparable Analysis using SEFSec 2010 in West Bank and Gaza Strip
Programme Evaluation in Gaza Strip with DFID (UK)
Panel Data (Ethiopia) and Livelihood Approach (Kenya)