Quantifying community resilience in South Sudan: The FEED project (Fortifying Equality and Economic Diversification)

An analysis of community resilience in South Sudan, based on household survey data, is presented in this paper. The data were collected as part of the Fortifying Equality and Economic Diversification (FEED) Project (a consortium project of World Vision, Oxfam, and CARE). The goal of the project was...

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Autores principales:	Martin J. Bunch, Sohrab Pathan, Antoinette G. Battaglia, Bryn Greer-Wootten, Alana Mascoll, Trevor Russell, Josh Folkema
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Publicado:	Resilience Alliance 2020
Materias:	community resilience development resilience food security international development principal component analysis resilience south sudan Biology (General) QH301-705.5 Ecology QH540-549.5
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spelling	oai:doaj.org-article:34486adf013844bfa4f5ac99fcd099462021-12-02T11:00:00ZQuantifying community resilience in South Sudan: The FEED project (Fortifying Equality and Economic Diversification)1708-308710.5751/ES-11450-250212https://doaj.org/article/34486adf013844bfa4f5ac99fcd099462020-06-01T00:00:00Zhttp://www.ecologyandsociety.org/vol25/iss2/art12/https://doaj.org/toc/1708-3087An analysis of community resilience in South Sudan, based on household survey data, is presented in this paper. The data were collected as part of the Fortifying Equality and Economic Diversification (FEED) Project (a consortium project of World Vision, Oxfam, and CARE). The goal of the project was to meet basic food security needs and reduce vulnerability amongst empowered communities and households in Greater Bahr el Ghazal and the Equatorias in South Sudan. Three dimensions of resilience (absorptive, adaptive, and transformative) were analyzed using principal component analysis (PCA). In this analysis, the components identified those characteristics of households, such as avoidance of negative coping strategies, capacity for disaster management at the community level, and access to social capital, that are important factors in resilience with respect to food security. Some of the principal components point to targets for programming. For example, in times of food scarcity, programming could target capacity building to construct storage facilities that are resistant to pests, rain, and dampness. This finding supports positive coping strategies, e.g., drawing upon stores of food in times of food scarcity. Similarly, building social capital is another programming opportunity indicated by these results, because drawing upon social networks to feed household members is a better coping strategy than, for example, selling liquid assets, harvesting immature crops, or simply going hungry. Furthermore, the analysis using PCA lends itself to the development of indices of resilience. Household scores on three resilience indices are produced: absorptive, adaptive, and transformative resilience. This allows for the identification of most and least resilient households. With this approach household scores on these indices can be aggregated to higher levels, such as the village level.Martin J. BunchSohrab PathanAntoinette G. BattagliaBryn Greer-WoottenAlana MascollTrevor RussellJosh FolkemaResilience Alliancearticlecommunity resiliencedevelopment resiliencefood securityinternational developmentprincipal component analysisresiliencesouth sudanBiology (General)QH301-705.5EcologyQH540-549.5ENEcology and Society, Vol 25, Iss 2, p 12 (2020)
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topic	community resilience development resilience food security international development principal component analysis resilience south sudan Biology (General) QH301-705.5 Ecology QH540-549.5
spellingShingle	community resilience development resilience food security international development principal component analysis resilience south sudan Biology (General) QH301-705.5 Ecology QH540-549.5 Martin J. Bunch Sohrab Pathan Antoinette G. Battaglia Bryn Greer-Wootten Alana Mascoll Trevor Russell Josh Folkema Quantifying community resilience in South Sudan: The FEED project (Fortifying Equality and Economic Diversification)
description	An analysis of community resilience in South Sudan, based on household survey data, is presented in this paper. The data were collected as part of the Fortifying Equality and Economic Diversification (FEED) Project (a consortium project of World Vision, Oxfam, and CARE). The goal of the project was to meet basic food security needs and reduce vulnerability amongst empowered communities and households in Greater Bahr el Ghazal and the Equatorias in South Sudan. Three dimensions of resilience (absorptive, adaptive, and transformative) were analyzed using principal component analysis (PCA). In this analysis, the components identified those characteristics of households, such as avoidance of negative coping strategies, capacity for disaster management at the community level, and access to social capital, that are important factors in resilience with respect to food security. Some of the principal components point to targets for programming. For example, in times of food scarcity, programming could target capacity building to construct storage facilities that are resistant to pests, rain, and dampness. This finding supports positive coping strategies, e.g., drawing upon stores of food in times of food scarcity. Similarly, building social capital is another programming opportunity indicated by these results, because drawing upon social networks to feed household members is a better coping strategy than, for example, selling liquid assets, harvesting immature crops, or simply going hungry. Furthermore, the analysis using PCA lends itself to the development of indices of resilience. Household scores on three resilience indices are produced: absorptive, adaptive, and transformative resilience. This allows for the identification of most and least resilient households. With this approach household scores on these indices can be aggregated to higher levels, such as the village level.
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author	Martin J. Bunch Sohrab Pathan Antoinette G. Battaglia Bryn Greer-Wootten Alana Mascoll Trevor Russell Josh Folkema
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title	Quantifying community resilience in South Sudan: The FEED project (Fortifying Equality and Economic Diversification)
title_short	Quantifying community resilience in South Sudan: The FEED project (Fortifying Equality and Economic Diversification)
title_full	Quantifying community resilience in South Sudan: The FEED project (Fortifying Equality and Economic Diversification)
title_fullStr	Quantifying community resilience in South Sudan: The FEED project (Fortifying Equality and Economic Diversification)
title_full_unstemmed	Quantifying community resilience in South Sudan: The FEED project (Fortifying Equality and Economic Diversification)
title_sort	quantifying community resilience in south sudan: the feed project (fortifying equality and economic diversification)
publisher	Resilience Alliance
publishDate	2020
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Quantifying community resilience in South Sudan: The FEED project (Fortifying Equality and Economic Diversification)

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