Livelihood Assessment Flood Affected District of Malda
Client: Save the Children
Location: Malda District, West Bengal
Sectors: Livelihood
Practice: Monitoring and Evaluation
Dates Of Service: 2018
Zivanta Services: Needs Assessment
Zivanta Contact: Sudipto Sengupta
Status: Completed
Background
The 2017 floods in Malda damaged houses, inundated fields and displaced people from their villages. The loss of property and livelihoods left the effected families economically vulnerable and reduced resilience to cope with similar future shocks
Intervention
Save the Children has identified ten villages across two blocks in Malda to rehabilitate and diversify livelihoods to make households more resilient to future floods. To do so a cogent strategy which is informed of the ground situation and the capabilities of the households had to be put in place and executed.
Services
(i) Study the existing scenario and identify household livelihood options – both farm and non-farm based – for flood affected population, (ii) Identify the scope of capacity building (technical support for skill enhancement) and livelihood support (material support), based on the proposed farm and non-farm based household livelihood options for the flood affected population, to sustain the intervention and (iii) Suggest resource persons or institutions for providing the desired skill set (technical support for skill enhancement) for proposed farm and nonfarm based household livelihood options for the flood affected population. Field work was conducted in 10 habitation in Bamongola block and 1 habitation in Habibpur block.