Household Economy Analysis (HEA) is a unique livelihoods framework that quantifies households’ food, income and expenditure sources and how each of these factors contributes to people’s ability to meet survival and livelihood protection needs.
“The HEA translates hazard into the economic consequences on household level“, says Laura Swift, a Senior Food Security & Livelihoods Technical Advisor for Save the Children UK.
HEA has been used by Save the Children for early warning to trigger forecast-based action (FbA) in several contexts such as in responding to climate crises, the COVID-19 pandemic and in conflict settings.