RNE Resilience Workshop, 8 -10 Feb, 2015 Egypt

1. RIMA application in the WBGS
Observed variables Unobserved (latent) variables
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The Resilience Path Diagram

2. The Resilience Model: Adapted to Agricultural
Livelihoods
Income and Food
Access
Income
Expenditures
HFIAS
FCS/DD
Non Agricultural
Assets
Rooms Owned
Car
Durables
Agricultural Assets
Lands
Animals
Machines
Access to Basic Services
Drinking Water
Swage
Electricity
Telephone
Land Restrictions
Transportation
Health Basic education
Agricultural Practices
and Technology
Plows
Motors
Irrigation
Organic chemical
Mix
Pesticide
Improved seeds
Social Safety Nets
Targeting
Public Assistance
Private assistance
Sensitivity
Expenditures change
Income Changes
Stead Fastness
Assistance Dependency
Number of shocks
Use of Food related Coping
Adaptive Capacity
Employment Ratio
High Education
f crops Diversity
Income-source
Savings
Assets total

3. Recurring shocks increase vulnerability

4. • Used for impact evaluation of a humanitarian response (land rehabilitation,
input distribution and water networks) to land damaged by the conflict in
the Gaza Strip;
• Used with gender disaggregated household survey data, to produce
resilience profiles for livelihoods groups (herders, farmers, mixed
livelihoods, urban poor) in both WB and GS. The profiles were used to
inform programming and refine targeting of beneficiaries;
• RIMA results utilized for mapping resilience in WBGS and geographical
targeting;
• RIMA analysis is one of the 3 dimensions identified for food insecurity
measurement in the WBGS, along with poverty and diet quality/quantity;
• In the efforts to bridge humanitarian and development actions in the WBGS,
RIMA is being considered to prioritize humanitarian interventions under the
SRP.
RIMA application in the WBGS

5. Change in Household Resilience
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Income and food access
Access to basic services
Non agricultural assets
Agricultural assets
Agricultural practices
and technologies
Social safety nets
Stability
Adaptive capacity
Pre Control Pre Beneficiary Post Control Post Beneficiary

6. RIMA in programming – Profiling
• Improved understanding of the socio-economic conditions of livelihoods
groups, organizing information by resilience component;
• Help formulating interventions that influence determinants of households’
resilience.

7. RIMA in programming –
Geographical Targeting

8. Resilience in Food Security Measurement
In the context of the protracted crises in the WBGS, and considering the that
food insecurity is defined as a lack of economic access to food, a 3 pillar food
insecurity measurement is being developed with support from ESA.
Food
Insecurity
Resilience
(RIMA)
Poverty
Diet
(quantity and
quality of food
consumed)

9. Inform Coordinated Decision-making
in Resilience Building
• How can a low resilience household become a high resilience one?
• What are the real factors that can help this transition?
• What are the required areas of intervention?
• How to prioritize projects in the SRP?
RIMA provides information to identify key policy responses and rank
interventions/investments.
How:
 Moving from a positive analysis to a normative analysis
 Using RIMA ex-post analysis to identify key determinants of resilience
 Using key determinants of resilience obtained from measured variables for:
 identifying key policies and investments and inform their design; and
 ranking projects according to expected impact on resilience.