Table 1.

Characteristics of the eight selected villages

Village	Type of flooding	Approximate number of households	% poor households*		Most recent flood
			Level 1	Level 2
1	Seasonal	175	15.6	19.0	August to October. Roads and rice fields flooded, livestock evacuated.
2	Seasonal	200	4.7	16.0	August to October. Roads and rice fields flooded, one house destroyed.
3	Seasonal	275	1.0	18.6	June to August. Roads flooded.
4	Occasional	100	15.3	22.1	August to October. Roads and rice fields flooded, four houses destroyed.
5	Occasional	50	30.9	19.8	July to October. Roads and rice fields flooded, six or seven houses destroyed.
6	Occasional	850	4.0	6.6	July to August. Only flooded one area of village. Rice fields flooded, 20–30 houses destroyed.
7	Occasional	250	1.8	4.9	August to October. Roads and rice fields flooded, 50–60 houses affected.
8	Occasional	225	5.0	7.5	October. Rice fields flooded.

*According to the IDPoor poverty identification programme in 2014.⁵⁷ Poor level 1 are the poorest households, poor level 2 are poor households; the remaining percentage of households have average or better off living conditions.