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Session 3.3.
Situation Analysis Step 4
Analysis of
Coping Strategies
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Learning Objectives
After the session, participants should be able to:
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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
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Explain the method of calculating – and the limitations of –
the Coping Strategies Index
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Where are we?
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
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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
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How to analyze coping strategies?
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Identify context specific coping strategies
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Make sure you also collect the 5 ‘core’ food consumption
coping strategies
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Establish severity of local coping strategies through
focus group discussions (FGDs), key informants
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If possible, use FGDs to design HH questionnaire
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Compare with baseline information if available
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Severity ranking
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Calculation of CSI
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Example: context specific interpretation
Coping Strategies used
in Dili, September 2007
Last 0-3
months
Never
1-2 / 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
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5 core food consumption
coping strategies
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Eating less preferred foods – severity 1.0
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Limiting portions at meal-time - severity 1.0
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Reducing number of meals per day – severity 1.0
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Borrowing food/money from friends and relatives –
severity 2.0
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Limiting adult intake – severity 3.0
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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
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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
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Exercise 3.3.a.
Household Coping Strategies
Strategies that put livelihoods at risk.
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Use Worksheet.
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20 minutes
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Exercise 3.3.b.
Scoring Coping Strategies
Calculate: Coping strategy index
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Use Worksheet
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25 minutes
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