Outcome Analysis Synthesis – Burkina Faso – June 2012

The HEA provides an adequate and quantified framework of analysis of households’ livelihoods and how they access their food, earn their income and spend it during a normal or baseline year. It allows modelling of scenarios using the present year characteristics of key parameters (i.e. food prices, agriculture production) allowing to mathematically link the change (positive or negative) to each relevant livelihood strategy. The gap identified for a single household can be extrapolated to a livelihood zone and to its population allowing the anticipation of needs in food or in cash of households in each wealth group and livelihood zone.