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The Household Survey for Evaluation of Bolivia Livelihoods Resilience Project, 2015 data were collected by Oxfam for an Effectiveness Review of the 'Supporting communities in Bolivia to adapt to changing weather patterns and improve their livelihoods' project in the 2014/15 financial year. It should be noted that this project was active between 2010 and 2013, while its predecessor was launched in 2008.

The key activities of this project, together with its predecessor, included constructing and promoting the use of camellones, an indigenous land-management system intended to protect livelihoods (agriculture and fish farming) against drought or flood, thereby increasing resilience.

Data collection took place in April 2015 around the regional capital of Trinidad in the Department of Beni. The intervention group consisted of all project households from three rural communities and one peri-urban area that could be identified and located. The comparison group consisted of a randomly selected sample of households from rural communities and peri-urban areas that were similar to the project communities in terms of a number of key characteristics, including the dominant livelihood strategies employed by community members, the distance of the community from large rivers, and the ethnic composition of the community.

Livelihoods, resilience, agriculture, fish farming, impact evaluation, Bolivia