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Strengthening the resilience of vulnerable communities: Results from a quasi‑experimental impact evaluation in coastal Bangladesh

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Title Strengthening the resilience of vulnerable communities: Results from a quasi‑experimental impact evaluation in coastal Bangladesh
 
Creator Béné, Christophe
Haque, Mahfuzul A.B.M.
 
Subject resilience
fishing communities
impact assessment
project evaluation
resiliencia
comunidades de pescadores
evaluación del impacto
 
Description At present, no clear consensus exists on how to assess resilience interventions in the field. In this paper we propose to measure the impact of the ECOFISH project, the objective of which was to strengthen the resilience of local fishing communities affected by recurrent crises in Bangladesh. The evaluation was based on a difference-in-difference (DiD) framework. The DiD analysis indicates that households who benefited from ECOFISH have a higher propensity to adopt positive responses than non-beneficiaries when hit by a shock. Those beneficiaries also report a statistically higher recovery rate (resilience). The analysis indicates however that the project did not manage to reduce the propensity of households to engage in detrimental coping strategies and that the long-term food and nutritional security of the beneficiaries has not yet visibly improved compared to the control group. Those different results are discussed in the light of the wider literature on resilience evaluation.
 
Date 2022-04
2021-04-15T14:54:14Z
2021-04-15T14:54:14Z
 
Type Journal Article
 
Identifier Béné, C.; Haque, Mahfuzul A.B.M. (2021) Strengthening the resilience of vulnerable communities: Results from a quasi‑experimental impact evaluation in coastal Bangladesh. The European Journal of Development Research 26 p. ISSN: 0957-8811
0957-8811
https://hdl.handle.net/10568/113371
https://doi.org/10.1057/s41287-021-00399-9
 
Language en
 
Rights CC-BY-4.0
Open Access
 
Format p. 843-868
application/pdf
 
Publisher Springer Science and Business Media LLC
 
Source The European Journal of Development Research