#ms09 Climate Resilience - Households using the Promoted Measures

A key objective of WHH’s strategy for #OnePlanetZeroHunger is climate resilience. The promotion of climate change adaptation, mitigation, and preparedness measure(s) is one of the core dimensions of WHH’s climate resilience approach. Climate change has a profound impact on exacerbating hunger, malnutrition, and poverty, necessitating urgent action. Extreme weather events, such as torrential rain, heat waves, and prolonged droughts, pose a grave threat to food security by devastating harvests and causing soil erosion. These adverse conditions for cultivation further escalate food prices, placing a growing burden on rural communities to meet their nutritional needs. Therefore, it becomes crucial to integrate climate change resilience strategies into our programming to enhance food and nutrition security while reducing poverty. The Climate Resilience indicator is useful to assess the effectiveness of climate change mitigation, adaptation, and/or preparedness measure(s) promoted by WHH and the extent to which target households correctly use such measure(s).

The #ms Climate Resilience indicator assesses the number of targeted households that [during the project period] used the mitigation/ adaptation/preparedness measure(s) promoted by WHH (or by partners or the project).

Collect the following data by conducting individual interviews with a representative sample (WHH sampling guidelines) of the households targeted in your project.

Questions should be addressed to one member of each sampled household, namely the person (adult) who is responsible for the usage of the promoted measure(s) and who received input and/or trainings from WHH/partners/the project.

The indicator requires a baseline and comparison value(s) to yield meaningful information on project outcomes. At minimum, data should be collected as part of both a baseline and an endline survey. Additionally, a mid-term data collection is optional.

• More information: #ms09 Climate Resilience Handbook (EN)
• External resources: USAID-BHA Handbook Part II 2021 (EN)

Disaggregate the data by gender, wealth, location and other relevant criteria.

This is a 'Measuring Success' (#ms) indicator. It is obligatory for all WHH projects to integrate all #ms indicators that align with the project context, with a minimum requirement of utilizing at least one indicator (and implementing one #ms qualitative tool).

1) Data for the indicator can generally be collected at any time of the year. However, results may vary according to season. Data collection should therefore be undertaken at the same time of the year.

2) For this indicator it is crucial to have a clear understanding of the promoted mitigation, adaptation, and/or preparedness measure(s) and a project-related definition of what it means to ‘use’ it/them – what exactly needs to be done, how, with what materials, for what purpose, for how long. Based on this definition, assess whether the promoted agriculture/land management measure(s) is/are used ‘correctly’.

3) Prior to data collection, enumerators should attend a short practical training session. Points to emphasize:

• Before data collection, conduct a climate resilience/vulnerability assessment to get a clear understanding of the intended effect(s) of the promoted mitigation, adaptation, and/or preparedness measure(s).
• The definitions of the promoted mitigation, adaptation, and/or preparedness measure(s) and what it means to ‘correctly use’ them should be well documented and shared with the project/program staff (i.e., what exactly needs to be done, how it must be done, with what materials, for what purpose, for how long, etc.)
• In addition to survey skills, in-depth training should provide enumerators with a good technical understanding of the promoted measure(s) and the context/project-specific definitions on ‘correct usage’ of the measure(s).
• Enumerators should assess whether the promoted measure(s) is relevant to the households (e.g., it does not make sense to ask a farmer who did not grow maize whether s/he used intercropping of maize with beans).
• Enumerators should ask probing questions or conduct observations to verify if promoted measure(s) are correctly being used by respondents. For this, enumerators require a clear understanding of ‘correct usage’ and climate resilience concepts and approaches in general.
• Enumerators should ask respondents who denied having used the promoted measure(s) why they don’t use them.