Our Work Worldwide

FEG & FEWS NET

FEWS NET’s early warning work uses HEA to interpret how hazards impact livelihood patterns and show the risk of acute food insecurity at the household level. For nearly 20 years, the Food Economy Group has provided technical leadership in the application of HEA to...

Ethiopia HEA Project

FEG has been providing technical support in Household Economy Analysis to the national early warning system in Ethiopia since 2016 through the HEA Project, funded by USAID and implemented by Save the Children. HEA baselines for 175 livelihood zones have been updated...

Economics of Resilience to Drought

FEG modelled household chronic and emergency needs using HEA over a 10-year period (2008-18) for a project looking at the economics of resilience to drought and cost-benefit analysis of interventions in Mauritania for the World Bank. Seven out of nine rural livelihood...

HEA and Social Protection

Save the Children commissioned an historical HEA analysis in Niger to explore whether it is possible to use existing HEA data to contribute to the design of an adaptive and shock responsive social protection programme. The analysis modelled the seasonal...

HEA baseline in urban Beirut, Lebanon

FEG provided technical support for Save the Children to conduct an HEA baseline for its project locations in metropolitan Beirut. The aim of this baseline work was to help understand wealth and socio-economic dynamics, inform thresholds for ‘cash plus’ programming,...

HEA baselines in Central Sulawesi, Indonesia

FEG led HEA baselines and current year outcome analysis in five livelihood zones in Central Sulawesi, Indonesia for Wahana Visi Indonesia (World Vision Indonesia), Plan International, Yayasan Sayangi Tunas Cilik (Save the Children Indonesia) and Yayasan Fondasi Hidup...

El Salvador baselines and PCMA

Oxfam commissioned FEG to lead a baseline assessment in El Salvador to provide recommendations for Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR) and resilience interventions in drought prone areas. FEG led field teams and produced HEA baselines for two rural livelihood zones. The...

HEA and the Living Wage

FEG prepared a guidance document and webinar to inform practitioners in the Living Income Community of Practice and ISEAL about HEA and the MEB, and how the HEA framework offers an effective analytical tool to assess a living wage.

HEA Certification and Save the Children’s Sahel Project

FEG designed a certification scheme as part of a multi-country capacity building effort across the HEA Sahel project area. The certification scheme standardises the qualifications required to achieve different HEA skill levels as a practitioner, trainer or trainer of...

Child-sensitive HEA baselines

Standard HEA baselines in Yobe State, northern Nigeria and Zambia were expanded to include data on children’s contribution to the household economy. The child sensitive HEA quantified income earned by children and examined household expenditure on children’s basic...

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...