Income Generating Activities

AHP DFAT III-COVID-19: A Visit to OXFAM livelihood project in Teknaf

This joint monitoring visit was conducted in the Oxfam- MUKTI implemented project, part of the DFAT AHP III consortium. As per the agreed decision of the MEAL Working Group (MWG), the visit date was 27 February 2022. The activity was covered: 1) Homestead Gardening & Pit Composting, 2) Tailoring, 3) Goat Rearing, and 4) IGA of People with Disabilities. The visit location was Rasullabad, Dargapara, and Lichuaprang villages. A convenient sample was used in this visit, so generalizing is a limitation. Read More...

Women for Change: Rapport d’étude sur l’utilisation des bénéfices générés des AGRs

En 2017, Mars Inc. a lancé une stratégie de développement durable ambitieuse. Reconnaissant la nécessité d'un effort collaboratif accéléré pour relever les défis environnementaux et sociaux, Mars a développé des objectifs étayés par la science et une détermination à générer un impact tout au long de sa chaîne d'approvisionnement et au-delà. La stratégie « Durable dans une génération » s'engage à atteindre des objectifs centrés sur une planète saine, des personnes prospères et un bien-être nourrissant.

Près d'un an après le lancement de la stratégie, Mars a annoncé Cocoa for Générations, ce qui représente une refonte fondamentale de l'approche de durabilité du cacao de l'entreprise. Avec un engagement envers Responsable Cocoa Today (pilier 1) et Sustainable Cocoa Tomorrow (pilier 2), Cocoa for générations engage Mars à accélérer le rythme des progrès dans l'amélioration de la vie de ceux qui font partie de sa chaîne d'approvisionnement en cacao. CARE s’inspire de l’engagement de Mars dans le cadre de la stratégie Cocoa for Generations à étendre les programmes « d’Associations Villageoises d’Epargne et de Crédit » (AVEC) dans leurs communautés cacaoyères, en renforçant l’épargne des ménages et les activités génératrices de revenus des femmes. Les AVEC sont considérées comme efficaces pour autonomiser les femmes et leur donner accès aux ressources financières dont les familles ont besoin. Par extension, Mars considère donc le programme VSLA comme une pierre angulaire pour réduire le risque de travail dangereux des enfants dans la chaîne d'approvisionnement du cacao. En aidant les familles de producteurs de cacao à améliorer leurs revenus, Mars et CARE contribuent à réduire les risques pour les droits humains dans la chaîne d'approvisionnement, tout en contribuant également à l'autonomisation sociale et économique des femmes.

Cet engagement représente une extension du programme Women for Change que CARE met en oeuvre en partenariat avec Mars depuis 2015, une collaboration en Côte d’Ivoire qui a déjà :
• Bénéficié à plus de 10 000 familles, représentant au moins 50 000 personnes, dans les régions productrices de cacao.
• Inscrit 12 134 membres de ménages dans des groupes d'épargne, générant 720 042 $ en épargne et en prêts.
• Doublement influencé des femmes sur les Santés du ménage.
• Réduit de 60% la proportion de parents incapables de payer les frais de scolarité.
• Augmenté de 86% la proportion de ménages de cacao qui consomment plus de deux repas par jour.

À une époque où le secteur du cacao est confronté à des menaces sur plusieurs fronts et à un besoin urgent de solutions évolutives qui apportent un changement significatif et durable pour les agriculteurs et leurs ménages, le modèle Women for Change représente une opportunité puissante. Cette proposition dénote la vision de CARE et MARS d'élargir le modèle Women for Change au cours des cinq prochaines années (2020-2025). CARE est inspiré par l’ambition de Mars d’atteindre au moins 50 000 ménages producteurs de cacao supplémentaires avec cette approche, élargissant la portée du programme en Côte d’Ivoire tout en s’étendant au Ghana.

Suite à la formation des promoteurs de groupe sur les AGRs, il eut une réplication de cette formation aux membres des groupements mis en place par le projet. Cela a permis aux membres des AVEC de mettre en place des AGRs au sein de leur communauté. A cet effet, l’équipe MEAL prévoit une étude qui vise à mesurer les bénéfices générés par les AGRs et leurs propension d’utilisation dans le quotidien des ménages des communautés cacaoyères.

MARS WRIGLEY (15 pages) Read More...

Sustainable Transformation of Egypt’s Aquaculture market System (STREAMS)

The Sustainable Transformation of Egypt’s Aquaculture Market System (STREAMS) project was designed with the overall goal to increase production of inexpensive, nutritious and safe fish from sustainable aquaculture systems to help improve the health and nutrition of Egypt’s resource-poor while creating employment and increasing incomes along the aquaculture value chain. The project was funded by SDC, under domain 2 “Economic Growth” and managed and implemented by WorldFish in partnership with CARE as a sub-contractor and in cooperation with the Ministry of Agriculture and Land Reclamation in five governorates namely: Kafr-El-Sheikh, Fayoum, Behera, Sharkia and Menia. STREAMS was implemented over a period of almost 41 months from December 1, 2015 to April 15, 2019

The end project evaluation identifies and assesses results achieved by WorldFish and partners during the project life at outcome and output levels and draws lessons learned and recommendations for WorldFish, the Donor, project stakeholders and partners. The evaluation was based on both secondary data and use of quantitative and qualitative tools to solicit primary data. Read More...

Northern Shan Food Security Project End-of-Project Evaluation

This report presents the findings, conclusions and recommendations of the Final Evaluation for the project: “Northern Shan Food Security Project (NSFSP)”. Implemented by CARE International in Myanmar, launched on January 2017 for three years, and ending on the 30th of December 2019.

The project is designed to accomplish with it specific objective : Increasing capacities of poor and vulnerable households in remote rural areas to strengthen their food and water security through a) income generating activities, b) access to new technological agricultural innovations and products, and c) better access to market opportunities.

The main purpose of the final evaluation was a) To determine the project achievement of its objectives and outputs and b) To identify intended and unintended outcomes, best practices, lessons learned and recommendations to improve future programming in terms of sustainability. Read More...

IMPACT EVALUATION REPORT: WOMEN BUSINESS INCUBATOR PROJECT

Lotus Flower, supported by CARE, started its Women Business Incubator (WBI) project on May 2019. The project was commenced with the recruitment process of staff and followed by an introduction of the project activities to the communities in Rowanga camp. Multiple activities have been conducted as part of the comprehensive approach to meet the objective of the project. Activities included conducting business mentorship training, awareness raising, and psychological support.

The impact evaluation aims at assessing the effectiveness, relevance and sustainability of the project. In addition, project success and challenges faced during project implementation has been assessed.
Specific objectives include:
- To document any gaps in in the project implementation and to identify barriers in running business by women in the male- dominated society;
- Examine whether any of the beneficiaries have the interest to use these skills as a trade/small business; whether they started earning income from their business or not, and how they are benefitting in a highly traditional society with firm gender role.
- To understand whether the women who benefited from the business women incubator project would be accepted as business women , if entrepreneurship is traditionally regarded as “male” job, by their community or not; whether they were interested in the material (and perhaps would want to learn other “male” skills); and whether this training has resulted in any changes among target beneficiaries families/community with respect to gender relations.
- To identify opportunities, and draw lessons learnt as well as recommendations
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Somalia Resilience Program Third Party Monitoring: Midline Assessment

The Somalia Resilience Program (SomReP) is a consortium of seven international non-governmental organisations (INGOs). The aim of the consortium is to enhance the resilience of vulnerable households and communities in Southern Somalia against cyclical shocks and stressors. The program’s activities focus on securing livelihoods and increasing adaptive capacities of communities and households in Somalia.

Overall, positive developments from the baseline was noted for most of the indicators analyzed in this report. Most of these positive developments could be attributed to different programme interventions. The attribution was tested through statistical correlation analysis and by synthesizing programme documents and the data collected at various stages throughout the project. The food security status of the respondents had improved, both in terms of food consumption and coping strategies. For example, the proportion of the respondents categorized as having an acceptable level of the Food Consumption Score (FCS) had increased from 48.5% in the baseline to 80.4% in the midline. The income of the respondents had also improved with both a significantly higher average income as well as more diversified income being reported. Those respondents that were part of a savings scheme as well as those that had received cash distributions through Cash for Work (CfW) or Unconditional Cash Transfers (UCT) reported higher FCS than those who had not. Respondents that had received cash distributions were also positively associated with higher incomes. As such, it is recommended that both VSLA and cash programming interventions should be sustained and if possible scaled-up. It is worth noting that livelihoods were still largely climate sensitive, with day labour in agriculture being the most common and important livelihood strategy, especially for male respondents. This implies that most people are still highly vulnerable to climatic shocks, such as drought. Read More...

Somalia Resilience Program Third Party Monitoring: Baseline Study

The Somalia Resilience Program (SomReP) is a consortium of seven Non-Governmental Organizations (NGO), the activities of which aim to enhance the resilience of vulnerable households and communities in Southern Somalia against cyclical shocks and stressors. This report serves as the baseline for the Third Party Monitoring (TPM) of SomReP in two districts in South and Central Somalia: Afgooye and Baidoa. The TPM study is undertaken by Forcier Consulting on behalf of SomReP, with the aim to rigorously monitor the progress and outcomes of the program.

The data indicates that resilience differed among livelihood groups (agro-pastoralist, pastoralists, and peri-urban), between women and men, and across seasons. This means that program approaches should take these differences into account when targeting groups for various interventions. For instance, people in peri-urban areas tended to have less diverse diets, while pastoralists tend to engage in more severe and frequent coping strategies. Out of the different livelihood types, pastoralists were also the most likely to report no access to risk transfer or sharing. Further, women tended to have less diverse incomes than men and incomes tend to be lowest in the dry season of Jilaal, the season in which most agriculture-related work was replaced with unskilled work. These findings indicate that women should be more frequently targeted for income diversity interventions, and pastoralists should be targeted with interventions that aim to increase social safety nets, such as risk sharing.

Capacities to deal with stressors in both the short and long-term were low across the targeted areas. Natural resource management (NRM) was poor in both districts and in and across communities. Sustainable access to natural resources is an important factor in ensuring long-term resilience and should therefore receive more attention across the communities. Response capacities were also absent across the communities. Only 9.7 of all respondents said their community had a community-based early warning system in place. Further, only 5.7% of the respondents said community initiatives existed that aimed to access support from sub-national and national institutions and authorities to respond to and cope with the recurrent shocks and stressors. Hence, moving forward, the program should ensure a focus of combined approaches to achieve improvements in system-wide resilience. Read More...

VSLA Securing Rights and Improving Livelihoods of Women Kadam Elkhair

This 60 page document reports the results of the Kadam Elkhair Project Read More...

Final evaluation report of kadem el-khair project final

This 60 page document reports the results of the Kadam Elkhair Project Read More...

Iedeas impact assessment egypt

This 64 page document highlights findings from the CARE/WorldFish project on women in aquaculture wi... Read More...

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