Resilience of Households Graduated from Productive Safety Net Program Pursuing Different Livelihood Strategies in Rural Konso, Ethiopia

Abstract

This study attempted to address resilience of households graduated from productive safety net program (PSNP) who pursued different livelihood strategies in rural Konso. The objective of the study is to measure the level of resilience of households to food insecurity by using the resilience approach. The study employed cross-sectional survey design for 298 PSNP graduated households drawn from sampling frame of graduated households. Systematic random sampling technique is used to select sample households.  Factor analysis using principal component factor is employed to examine the components of resilience and the percentage variance is explained by each of the components. The study results indicated that households are resilient at different levels. The relative sizes of factor loadings of each observed variables and latent dimensions of resilience have important policy implications. The study also indicated that resilience indices across different livelihood strategies have shown significant differences. This implies households who diversified their livelihoods are relatively resilient. To enhance households resilience, therefore, enabling environment that support smallholder livelihood diversification should be facilitated.