Building HEA Capacity Throughout the Sahel
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Livelihoods and climate change: Household Water Economy Analysis
In fall 2008, FEG further developed and began implementing Household Water Economy Analysis (HWEA) in Ethiopia’s Oromiya Region as part of the DFID-funded RiPPLE Long-term Action Research Study to better understand the livelihoods impacts of water access and how this access may be affected by climate change.
HWEA complements HEA-based livelihoods analysis in this realm because water resources are among the first affected by climate change, and the knock-on effects of a changing climate can reverberate throughout livelihoods systems.
The HWEA component of this study develops systems and tools to assess different households’ access to water in various livelihood zones as part of a larger objective of assessing opportunities for and challenges to building community and household resilience to climate change hazards and informing planning and implementation of climate change policy and response options. Using a combination of HWEA-specific and traditional HEA-based livelihood zoning, key informant and focus group interviews, and site visits, HWEA assesses how water access affects livelihoods security and resilience in different livelihood zones, how current and projected future groundwater levels affect household water security and future water-based adaptations, the likely impacts of shocks related to a range of climate change scenarios on household water access and livelihoods security, and the likely impacts of climate change adaptation on different households.
Information Sheet on HWEA and the larger Long-term Action Research Study.
