Resilience analysis in Burkina Faso 1998-2003
FAO has been pioneering resilience measurement and analysis with respect to food insecurity through the Resilience Index Measurement and Analysis (RIMA) model, which has been adopted in the present analysis. FAO-RIMA model identifies and weights pillars and their related elemental variables that contribute to render household resilient to shocks affecting their food security.
FAO has been pioneering resilience measurement and analysis with respect to food insecurity through the Resilience Index Measurement and Analysis (RIMA) model, which has been adopted in the present analysis. FAO-RIMA model identifies and weights pillars and their related elemental variables that contribute to render household resilient to shocks affecting their food security. The pillars constituting the FAO-RIMA model for Burkina Faso are the following: Income and Food Access (IFA), Access to basic services (ABS), Assets (AST), Social safety nets (SSN), Sensitivity (S) and Adaptive Capacity (AC). Additionally, the model allows tracing the stability of pillars over time. Finally, it provides evidence for more effectively designing, delivering, monitoring and evaluating assistance to populations in need, based on what they need most.
Data employed in this study come from two surveys collected in 1998 and 2003.
In brief, the resilience analysis of Burkina Faso serves three purposes:
- Assessing the resilience capacity over the years.
- Critically reviewing the different policies for increasing resilience put in place by the Government of Burkina Faso between 1998 and 2003.
- Serving as a baseline for more actual analysis.