by Gavriel Langford | Jun 20, 2021 | Africa, Asia, Central America, Food Security, Scenario Analysis
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...
by Gavriel Langford | Jun 20, 2021 | Africa, Resilience, Scenario Analysis
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...
by Gavriel Langford | Jun 20, 2021 | Africa, Asia, Central America, COVID-19, Scenario Analysis
FEG set up and ran spreadsheet tools in March-October 2020 for HEA Outcome Analysis of the economic impact of Covid-19 lockdown for: FEWS NET in Southern, West and East Africa; Save the Children in Nepal and West Africa; FSD in Kenya; and Oxfam in El Salvador. The new...
by Gavriel Langford | Jun 20, 2021 | Africa, Cash transfer, Scenario Analysis
Welthungerhilfe and the Start Network tested its first pilot project in Forecast-based Financing in Madagascar. The objective was to develop a drought model connected to a trigger-based financing mechanism for local early-action interventions. HEA baselines conducted...
