Household Survey for Evaluation of Ethiopia and Somaliland Resilience Project, 2015

<p>The <span style="font-style: italic;">Household Survey for Evaluation of Ethiopia and Somaliland Resilience Project, 2015 </span>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. <br><br>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. <br><br>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.<br><br></p>