Evaluation of Starter Pack 2 Technical background Statistical Services Centre University of Reading Malawi 23 August 2000
Mar 28, 2015
Evaluation of Starter Pack 2Technical background
Statistical Services Centre
University of ReadingMalawi
23 August 2000
Background
• Objectives of Starter Pack
• Difficulty in measuring the net impact of Starter Pack
Objectives of Starter Pack
• To increase food production, in particular for maize
• To combat household food insecurity, particularly in the most vulnerable farm families
• Provision of legume crops to help improve soil fertility and diet
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Difficulty in measuring the net impact of Starter Pack
• Difficulty in finding a baseline for comparison
• Year to year changes affected by weather• “All farmers” were eligible• Variation in size of effects depending on
farmer characteristics such as wealth, sex, location, etc
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How to assess the impact of SP?
• Looking at the multi-dimensional aspects of the impact of Starter Pack
• Triangulating the estimates of production and months of food produced through– Year to year comparisons
– Recipients versus non-recipients
– Farmers’ perceptions and experience
– Independent measures of ‘impact’ from each module in the evaluation.
Modular approach
• Module 1: Agronomic Survey• Module 2: Microeconomic Impact and Willingness
to Pay • Module 3: Gender and Intra-household Distribution• Module 4: Sustainable Agriculture and Biodiversity• Module 5: Ground Truth Study for SP Logistics
Unit Starter Pack Register•
Selection of sites
• Random selection of villages and households within villages
• Stratification by FEWS poverty and food security indices (M2), food security index (M3) and sphere of influence clusters (M4)
• An optimal number of sites has been selected within the resources available
• These elements will make it possible to reach generalisable conclusions and capture variability
Module 1: Agronomic Survey
• Consultant: National Statistical Office
• Coverage: National
• 200 Enumeration Areas covering all RDPs in the country
• 2992 households visited
• 3527 individuals interviewed
• Methodology: household survey and field visits
Module 2: Microeconomic Impact and Willingness to Pay• Consultant: Mzuzu ADD, Ministry of Agriculture. Team
leader: Mr Francis Nyirenda
• participatory preliminary study followed by a household survey
• The study visited 120 villages distributed in 30 EPAs. Stratification by Poverty Index and Sphere of influence (VAM 1996). 1,200 households visited
• Quantitative and qualitative methodsof research were combined
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Module 2Map of EPAs coveredand Number of villages visited
Module 3: Gender and Intra-household Distribution• Consultant: Chancellor College. Gender Studies and
Outreach Unit. Team Leader: Dr Lucy Binauli
• Preliminary phase based on participatory workshops
• Main phase based on restricted participatory methods combined with a short questionnaire
• Visited 48 villages in 24 EPAs throughout the country
• Consistent methodology and structured information recording used in all sites to allow integration of results
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Module 3Map of EPAs coveredand Number of villages visited
Module 4: Sustainable Agriculture and Biodiversity
• Consultants: Elizabeth Cromwell (ODI), Patrick Kambewa (Chancellor College), Richard Mwanza (Concern Universal), Rowland Chirwa (Chitedze Research Station) and Kwera (NGO)
• Participatory study of 30 villages randomly selected in the whole of Malawi using the VAM (1996) classification of EPAs by Sphere of Influence
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Module 4Map of EPAs coveredand Number of villages visited
Module 5: Ground Truth Study for SPLU
• Consultants: McNewman Msowoya, Mzuzu ADD, Peter Wingfield-Digby, Ian Wilson
• Census of 54 villages
• Comparison with the registration data for Starter Pack 2
• Comparison with the census 1998 results
• Assessment of the registration process in those villages.
Module 5Map of EPAs covered