Evaluation of Starter Pack 2 Technical background

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Evaluation of Starter Pack 2Technical background

• Statistical Services Centre
• University of Reading
• Malawi
• 23 August 2000

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Background

• Objectives of Starter Pack
• Difficulty in measuring the net impact of Starter
  Pack

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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.

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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

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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

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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

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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 2 Map of EPAs covered and Number of
villages visited
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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 3 Map of EPAs covered and Number of
villages visited
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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 4 Map of EPAs covered and Number of
villages visited
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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.

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Module 5 Map of EPAs covered
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