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The Household Survey for Evaluation of Ethiopia and Somaliland Resilience Project, 2015 data were collected by Oxfam for an Effectiveness Review of the 'Contributing to the Development of Enabling Conditions for Human Security for Vulnerable Pastoralist and Agro-Pastoralist Communities' project in the 2015/16 financial year. It should be noted that this project was active between July 2012 and June 2016. The project aimed to build the resilience of project participants to drought, conflict, and other shocks and stresses, through a series of activities working at different scales. The project worked directly to improve pastoralists' and agro-pastoralists' ability to thrive in spite of drought and conflict by rehabilitating sources of water and grazing land and by managing livestock disease. The project also promoted alternative income-generating activities among women and the youth by providing training and supporting savings/credit groups. Finally, the project tried to increase the voice and representation of marginalised groups in key decision-making forums. Data collection took place in November 2015 in the Somali region of Ethiopia and Somaliland. The intervention (beneficiary) group consisted of a randomly selected sample of households from project communities in two woredas in Ethiopia and one region in Somaliland. The comparison (non-beneficiary) group consisted of a randomly selected sample of households from communities similar to the project communities in terms of a number of key characteristics, including the dominant livelihood strategies employed by community members, the distance of the community from main roads, and the distance of the community from the Ethiopia-Somaliland border.

Main Topics:

Resilience, livelihoods, gender equality, impact evaluation, Ethiopia, Somaliland

Quasi-random (eg random walk) sample

Face-to-face interview