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Impact Evaluation of the Food Security Project for Poorer Rural Households in Ethiopia 2010

Ethiopia, 2010
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ETH_2010_FSPIE_v01_M
DOI
https://doi.org/10.48529/99fx-6958
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Markus Goldstein
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Impact Evaluation Surveys Fragility, Conflict and Violence
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  • Identification
  • Scope
  • Coverage
  • Producers and sponsors
  • Sampling
  • Survey instrument
  • Data collection
  • Data Access
  • Contacts
  • Metadata production
  • Citation

    • Identification

    Survey ID number

    ETH_2010_FSPIE_v01_M
    Title

    Impact Evaluation of the Food Security Project for Poorer Rural Households in Ethiopia 2010
    Country/Economy
    Name Country code
    Ethiopia ETH
    Abstract
    At the time of Appraisal of the Food Security Project, Ethiopia was a post-conflict state having just emerged from a two-year long armed conflict with Eritrea. Though the conflict resulted in a suspension of development assistance, an Interim Strategy Note (ISN) was put in place in November 2000 to guide the World Bank’s post-conflict recovery program. This ISN guided much of the strategy for the Food Security Project’s design. District governments, or woredas, were largely responsible for delivering services. Though the agricultural sector remained underemployed, it was still the largest sector of the economy, meaning there was little opportunity outside rural areas for non-farming activities. Poor rural households also lacked sufficient access to the microfinance sector. Droughts and food price escalation caused massive food insecurity for around 7-13 million people. The Food Security Project (FSP) wanted to shift assistance focus away from short term temporary fixes toward addressing long-term problems of food insecurity. The FSP was designed to comprise 5 components: (i) grants to communities and kebeles, including community-level assets building, household asset building and income generating activities, and child growth promotion; (ii) capacity building for woredas, regions, and federal ministries; (iii) food marketing initiatives, including improved management of food aid, establishment of a food market information system, development of a warehouse receipt and inventory credit system for traders, and development of a competitive and efficient market in warehousing services; (iv) communications and public education; and (v) project administration and impact evaluation. While these components were edited before the culmination of the project, they generally remained. The project development objective was to build the resource base of poorer rural households, increase their employment and incomes, and improve their nutrition levels, especially for children under five years of age, pregnant and lactating women. A major benefit of FSP participation is access to credit. Documented outcomes included: (i) small increase in the number of months FSP households were food secure and a small decrease in number of months of food consumption covered by own resources; (ii) positive effect on caregivers’ knowledge of and behavior regarding child nutrition; (iii) FSP households slightly less likely to have had at least one shock in the last five years and less likely to have used savings or a loan to buy food; and (iv) FSP households reported an increase of off-farm work.
    Kind of Data

    Sample survey data [ssd]
    Unit of Analysis

    Households
    Individuals

    Scope

    Notes

    The survey covered the following themes:

    • Basic Household Characteristics: Household demographics, current household members; Characteristics of the household and the household head; Former household members; Children's education and activities
    • Land, Crop and Forestry Production, and Disposition: Land characteristics and tenure; 2002 Meher crop production; 2002 Belg crop production; 2002 Perennial crops/forestry production; Household level supply and disposition of crops (annual and perennial), spices, and forestry prducts; Use of labor in agricultural production
    • Household Assets: Household assets (non-land): production equipment, consumer durables; Housing; Livestock ownership; Income from livestock; Distress asset sales
    • Income Apart from Own-Agricultural Activities and Credit: Wage employment; Own business activities; Transfers
    • Access to WB/CIDA/Italy Food Security Project and Related Programs: Access to productive safety nets program - public works; Participation in other food security programs (OFSP); Perceptions of benefits of assets created by PSNP and other public works; Perceptions and participation of operations of the WB/CIDA/Italy FSP; Access to credit
    • Consumption: Non-food expenditure on durables and services; Non-food expenditure on household consumables; Food consumption; Food availability, access and coping strategies
    • Health, Illness, Shocks and Poverty Perceptions: Health status; Illness; Child Growth Promotion; Long term shocks and coping mechanisms; Shocks to crops and livestock; Perceptions of poverty and well-being
    Keywords
    Food Security Nutrition Food Markets & Prices Off-Farm Income Rural Development Child Health Agriculture Sustainable Development

    Coverage

    Geographic Coverage

    Rural Areas
    Universe

    The Food Security Project's (FSP) primary target groups were poor rural households, children under age 5, and pregnant and lactating women.

    Producers and sponsors

    Primary investigators
    Name Affiliation
    Markus Goldstein The World Bank

    Sampling

    Sampling Procedure

    The dataset is a product of survey data. The questionnaire was administered by the CSA to 6,000 households in 240 kebeles of which 120 FSP kebeles were selected at random and then the nearest neighboring kebele which was not participating in FSP was also selected.

    Within the non-FSP kebeles, 25 households were selected at random to participate in the survey. In FSP kebeles, a list was compiled of all FSP beneficiaries using FSP program records. From this list 17 households were selected at random to participate in the survey. In addition, among the population of non-beneficiaries, 8 households were selected at random for interviews.

    This sampling structure provides two potential comparison groups to compare to FSP participants: non-beneficiaries within FSP kebeles and those residing in non-FSP kebeles.

    Survey instrument

    Questionnaires

    Module 1 - Basic Household Characteristics
    S1A: Household demographics, current household members
    S1B: Characteristics of the household and the household head
    S1C: Former household members
    S2: Children's education and activities

    Module 2 - Land, Crop and Forestry Production, and Disposition
    S1: Land characteristics and tenure
    S2A: 2002 Meher crop production
    S2B: 2002 Belg crop production
    S2C: 2002 Perennial crops/forestry production
    S3: Household level supply and disposition of crops (annual and perennial), spices, and forestry prducts
    S4: Use of labor in agricultural production

    Module 3 - Household Assets
    S1: Household assets (non-land): production equipment, consumer durables
    S2: Housing
    S3: Livestock ownership
    S4: Income from livestock
    S5: Distress asset sales

    Module 4 - Income Apart from Own-Agricultural Activities and Credit
    S1: Wage employment
    S2: Own business activities
    S3: Transfers

    Module 5 - Access to WB/CIDA/Italy Food Security Project and Related Programs
    S1: Access to productive safety nets program - public works
    S2: Participation in other food security programs (OFSP)
    S3: Perceptions of benefits of assets created by PSNP and other public works
    S4: Perceptions and participation of operations of the WB/CIDA/Italy FSP
    S5: Access to credit

    Module 6 - Consumption
    S1: Non-food expenditure on durables and services
    S2: Non-food expenditure on household consumables
    S3: Food consumption
    S4: Food availability, access and coping strategies

    Module 7 - Health, Illness, Shocks and Poverty Perceptions
    S1: Health status
    S2: Illness
    S3: Child Growth Promotion
    S4: Long term shocks and coping mechanisms
    S5: Shocks to crops and livestock
    S6: Perceptions of poverty and well-being

    Data collection

    Dates of Data Collection
    Start End Cycle
    2010-07-25 2010-09-29 R1
    Time periods
    Start date End date Cycle
    2010-07-25 2010-09-29 R1
    Mode of data collection
    • Computer Assisted Personal Interview [capi]

    Data Access

    Access authority
    Name Affiliation URL
    Microdata Library The World Bank microdata.worldbank.org

    Contacts

    Contacts
    Name Affiliation Email
    Markus Goldstein World Bank mgoldstein@worldbank.org
    Michael O'Sullivan World Bank mosullivan@worldbank.org
    Microdata Library World Bank

    Metadata production

    DDI Document ID

    DDI_ETH_2010_FSPIE_v01_M_WB
    Producers
    Name Affiliation Role
    Development Economics Data Group The World Bank Documentation of the Study
    Date of Metadata Production

    2017-07-27

    Metadata version

    DDI Document version

    Version 01 (July 2017)

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