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*New* HEA animation
Watch our new HEA animation here. It provides an introduction to HEA and shows how it can be used by policymakers and programmers.
Refugee camp in Uganda helps local households to cope
The arrival of thousands of South Sudanese refugees in northern Uganda prompted DanChurchAid (DCA) and Save the Children to investigate the impact of the BidiBidi refugee camp on the local economy of households in Yumbe District. In February 2017, FEG provided...
Impact of aid on Syrian refugees in Lebanon
At the end of 2016, FEG investigated the impact of integrated aid (including cash transfers) on the household economies of Syrian refugees in Lebanon. The study focused on severely vulnerable households living in two contrasting areas, the Beka’a Valley (a rural zone)...
Understanding how the vanilla industry affects poor households in Madagascar
As the world’s primary vanilla-producing country, the lives of thousands of impoverished and even landless households in Madagascar depend on this lucrative cash crop. FEG was commissioned by Save the Children to help it understand how the vanilla industry impacts the...
Households struggling to survive in south-eastern Pakistan
Faced with both flooding and drought in successive years, the population of Sindh province in south-eastern Pakistan is highly vulnerable to shocks and extremely food insecure. Concern Worldwide and Welthungerhilfe implement a programme in Sindh which aims to increase...
Understanding livelihoods in Kasai Occidental, Democratic Rebublic of Congo
Following a nutrition crisis in Kalomba health zone in Kasai Occidental Province, Action Against Hunger (ACF) commissioned FEG to carry out an HEA baseline assessment to help develop its food security and livelihoods policy. FEG started by dividing the 1,600 square...
Using HEA data to plan a cash transfer scheme in Mozambique
In response to the predicted failure of rains due to the sustained effects of El Niño across Southern Africa in 2015-16, Save the Children commissioned FEG to assess the needs of households in Gaza province, southern Mozambique, one of the most vulnerable and food...
Why might increasing dairy production decrease resilience?
To find out why, watch FEG's new presentation about how HEA data can be used to provided a quantitative and comparative measure of economic resilience at the household level.
Countrywide baselines in Tanzania, Malawi & Angola
FEG is providing technical support to the Southern Africa Development Community’s (SADC) Regional Vulnerability Assessment and Analysis (RVAA) Programme to ensure the completion of country-wide, high quality HEA livelihood baselines in Tanzania, Malawi and Angola....
Measuring post-typhoon recovery in the Philippines
FEG conducted a rapid HEA in the Philippines to measure the extent to which households had been able to recover their livelihoods one year after Typhoon Yolanda. Save the Children International commissioned the work for use in its advocacy programme, and the results...
Using HEA to inform resilience programming in urban Peru
In 2015 FEG carried out three household economy analysis (HEA) baselines in Peru for Practical Action, to develop the livelihoods component of its flood resilience programming. The assessments took place in the urban areas of the Rio Rimac watershed just east of Lima...
Monitoring and Impact Evaluation in Sri Lanka
FEG provided study design, training, analysis and report writing expertise to two Individual Household Economy Assessments (IHEAs) in 2008 and 2010 for Save the Children in Sri Lanka. The first IHEA provided a pre-implementation baseline against which to monitor and...
Building HEA Capacity Throughout the Sahel
FEG provides technical support to Save the Children UK on a regional Household Economy Analysis capacity-building project in the Sahel funded by the Humanitarian Aid department of the European Commission (ECHO).
Informing Program Design in Myanmar
Save the Children, working in partnership with IRC, Oxfam and Better Life Organisation, commissioned FEG to lead a field exercise in Rakhine State, Myanmar. This was one of the first views into how people in this part of Myanmar make ends meet, and FEG's work...