RIMA application in the WBGS

Observed variables Unobserved (latent) variables

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The Resilience Path Diagram

The Resilience Model: Adapted to Agricultural Livelihoods

Income and Food AccessIncome

ExpendituresHFIAS

FCS/DD

Non Agricultural Assets

Rooms OwnedCar

Durables

Agricultural AssetsLands

AnimalsMachines

Access to Basic ServicesDrinking Water

SwageElectricityTelephone

Land RestrictionsTransportation

Health Basic education

Agricultural Practices and Technology

PlowsMotors

IrrigationOrganic chemical

MixPesticide

Improved seeds

Social Safety NetsTargeting

Public Assistance Private assistance

SensitivityExpenditures change

Income ChangesStead Fastness

Assistance DependencyNumber of shocks

Use of Food related Coping

Adaptive CapacityEmployment Ratio

High Educationf crops DiversityIncome-source

SavingsAssets total

Recurring shocks increase vulnerability

• 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

Change in Household Resilience

Income and food access

Access to basic services

Non agricultural assets

Agricultural assets

Agricultural practices and technologies

Social safety nets

Stability

Adaptive capacity

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-0.5

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0.5

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Pre Control Pre Beneficiary Post Control Post Beneficiary

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.

RIMA in programming – Geographical Targeting

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)

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.