Annex 2.
Vulnerability Index (LVI): Components, profiles, indicators and expected hypothesis
| Component | Capital | Subcomponent | Indicators | Expected hypothesis/realtionship with vulnerabiltiy |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Exposure | Climate | Climate variability and extrem events | Long term temperature and rainfall variability which is expressed in terms of coefienceint of variation and concentration index; incidences of extreme events | Variabiltiy in temperature and precipitaion as well as freqnt occurrences of exterm events will exabrates vulenrabiltiy to climate change |
| Sensitivity | Natural | Ecosystem (Biophysical environment) | Percentage of people using forest-based energy for cooking; people living in malaria, frost, flooding, water logging prone areas; people living in water scare areas; | People living in such areas are expecte to be more sensitive and can easily be vulerable to adverse impacts of climate change |
| Agricultural system | Landless farmers; land fertility; crop diversity index; dependent on food aid and only on rainfed agriculture; those who rented out or sharecropped their land; found in belg dominated areas; experienced crop failure | Smallholder farmers with such scinaros are excepted to be more sensetive for slight changes in climate | ||
| Water resource | Dependent on unprotected source of water; experienced water-related conflicts; expericeining shortage of water for home consumption; domestic animals and irrigation | Changes in climatic situation will exabrates these situations and households will be easily vulnerable to climate change induced impacts | ||
| Adaptive capacity | Human | Demographic | Proportion of male headed households; proportion of family size with productive age group; | Headed by male and having more family size in the productive age = better adaptive capacity |
| Knowledge and skill | Educational level of HHH; having radio/mobile phone; family member having vocational training/training on small scale business/climate change/crop production; having better contact with DAs/health extension workers | Having better educational level and those having means of informaton as well as training are supposed to have better knowledge and skill of adaptation stategies | ||
| Health and food | HHs free of chronically ill members; financial capacity to take medical care; HHHs completed health packages; capacity to produce enough food for their family; no meal reduction due to shortage; financial capacity to fill out food deficit | HHs who are free from chronically ill member, having financial capacity for midication and to buy food items; producing enough food and those who did not force to reduce meal due to scarity do have better adaptive capacity | ||
| Social | Networks and relationships | Providing/receiving helps; being membership of community-based organizations; being a member of producers/cooperative organizations; being leaders in such organizations | Being a member of such organizations; being leaders in such organizations would give room to develop adaptive capacity | |
| Financial | Assets and wealth | Land per capita; livestock assets; wealth status; access to financial institutions; no debt to pay back; beyond agriculture source of income; remittance | The better having such assets, the better in building adaptive capacity | |
| Physcial | Technology | Extent of using land augmenting modern inputs; irrigation access; house with corrugated sheet; using modern stoves | Having better access to such technological inputs would enable farmers to have better adaptive acpacity | |
| Infrastructure | Access to all weather road/health facilities/school/veterinary services/input and output markets/telecommunication centers | Households with better access to such facilities would have better adaptive capacity to climate change | ||
| Natural | Land resourse | Total land size (cultivable/woodlot/grazing/irrigated) | Having better land resource increase the adaptive capacity |