Mauritania
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This profile for the Pastoral: Oases and Oueds Zone 3 of Mauritania provides detailed, quantitative information about livelihood strategies, including food and income sources and expenditures, for each of four wealth groups: the very poor, the poor, the middle, and the better off. Livelihood profiles facilitate analysis and monitoring of livelihood and food security. This profile, in conjunction with the livelihood zone map, provides a geographic context for establishing monitoring systems (a sampling frame) and for interpreting the relative importance of existing monitoring data on production, prices, and other indicators. It is a point of reference against which conditions observed during monitoring may be compared. It also describes how livelihood and food security may be affected by production and other shocks.
Livelihood Baselines provide quantitative analysis of household livelihood options. They include a detailed breakdown of food, cash income, and expenditure patterns. The baseline also highlights market patterns, seasonality, and coping strategies. Baselines can be used to quantify and measure the impact of shocks on households when used in outcome analysis. They are also useful in planning humanitarian assistance, particularly in forecasting whether and when assistance will be needed, how many people might be affected, and what types of assistance will be most impactful.