Abstract
Rural households in Vietnam have been facing various adverse impacts on their livelihoods. By using 28 indicators of Sustainable Livelihood Framework (SLF), this study aims to identify the Livelihood Vulnerability Index (LVI) of the households in the coastal sandy zone in Thua Thien Hue (TTH). Based on the baseline data in 2007-2008, the study conducted a survey of 110 households living in four districts of the region to have a thorough evaluation of LVI. The results showed that excluding the increase in natural capital index (0.194 to 0.225), the value of LVI reduced in the dimension of human capital (0.365 to 0.363), social capital (0.081 to 0.075), physical capital (0.139 to 0.048) and financial capital (0.405 to 0.273). In overall, the value of the LVI index scored 0.244 in 2007-2008 and 0.214 in 2017-2018, respectively. The research findings contribute a deeper understanding of the vulnerable context of household communities that support the issuance of policy intervention, a social project as well as impact assessment of the given factors such as change of vulnerable contexts, structure and process.
Highlights
Various studies were conducted to evaluate the livelihood vulnerability index at the household level but most of them merely tried to assess the value of the index by district or country at one specific time (Dhanani and Islam, 2002; Hahn et al, 2009b; Shah et al, 2013a; Ahsan and Warner, 2014; Duy et al, 2014; Pandey et al, 2017)
The study was conducted in the coastal sandy zone in Thua Thien Hue (TTH) province to compare the livelihood vulnerability in 20072008 to that in 2017-2018
By using 28 indicators distributed to five capital of sustainable livelihood framework (SLF), the primary results indicated that the households in TTH have been achieving various achievements in the developmental pathways
Summary
Various studies were conducted to evaluate the livelihood vulnerability index at the household level but most of them merely tried to assess the value of the index by district or country at one specific time (Dhanani and Islam, 2002; Hahn et al, 2009b; Shah et al, 2013a; Ahsan and Warner, 2014; Duy et al, 2014; Pandey et al, 2017). This study applies a longitudinal survey by using a baseline study from 2009 of Hao to capture the evolution of the vulnerable index of households for long-term policy’s vision. This approach could contribute significantly as a practical tool to having a thorough evaluation on the household’s profile that will act as a foundation for the policymakers and policy implementors to implement a significant policy to accomplish the purpose of sustainable livelihood strategy. The changes of livelihood capitals will be identified to understand the drawbacks and achievements for the aims of proposing sustainable livelihood development under the context of vulnerability. It is a must to answer some research questions: (i) What are the leading indicators that should be taken into account to calculate the LVI? (ii) What are the main changes
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