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After extensive preparatory work in 1996, the principal activity has been the collection, collation, and cleaning of primary-level (principally household) data.
Bangladesh
- Improving Food Security in Bangladesh
Work on this project is undertaken with IFPRI's Market and Structural Studies Division and the Outreach Division. FCND's participation focuses on improving the effectiveness of targeted food programs.
Egypt
- This four-year project on reforming Egypt's food subsidy system and food markets, and assessing public-sector programs for income and employment generation is jointly carried out by FCND and the Markets and Structural Studies Division (MSSD). This year, the Egypt project saw the completion of a nationally representative survey of 2,500 households undertaken between March and May, with a complementary community-level survey completed in June. Data have been cleaned, preliminary analysis undertaken, and results discussed with Egyptian collaborators and policymakers. See research results.
Honduras
Mali
Malawi
- IFAD Collaboration
- This project seeks to identify program features that strengthen the impact of market- and trade-oriented development programs on poverty, food security, and nutrition. This work, which spans three years, is based on an analysis of the USAID-supported Smallholder Agribusiness Development Project in Malawi.
Mexico
Mozambique
- The three-year program in Mozambique assesses the extent and nature of poverty using data from the first nationally representative household survey, it assists in the formulation of a safety net and poverty reducing strategy, and works to build capacity in policy analysis. This year, the team has provided advice and assistance in the development of the first nationally representative household survey in Mozambique, the Inquerito Nacional Aos Agregados Familiares (IAF), including inputs into questionnaire design, field-level implementation, correction factors for weighting, data entry and management, and comments on the tabulation plan for a statistical abstract based on these data. An assessment of the Gabinete de Apoio à População Vulnerável (GAPVU) cash transfer program was also completed. See research results.
Nicaragua
South Africa
- A detailed database has been developed on job creation projects in Western Cape Province containing information on their performance in generating employment, building infrastructure and local institutional capacity, and provision of training. This has been complemented by the construction of data sets on poverty indicators. Using a Geographic Information System (GIS), maps have been produced overlaying these indicators with the public works data to evaluate targeting and provide government departments with a tool for targeting in upcoming rounds of new project locations.
Zimbabwe
- In collaboration with researchers in Oxford, Amsterdam, and Zimbabwe, the research team will examine the impact of poverty reducing and poverty preventing policies on households resettled on formerly White commercial farms after Independence in Zimbabwe. It draws on a panel data set covering 400 households initially surveyed in 1983/84, with further surveys conducted in 1987 and annually since 1992. It will construct a model that links measures of household welfare to access to improved health care, agricultural extension, and drought relief. The model will assess the impact of these on both the level and change in welfare across households, over time and on a regional basis. The team has begun the task of collating and cleaning the panel data set of 400 households covering the period 1983/84 to 1997 in preparation for a comparative analysis of the effects of relief and development interventions.
IFAD Collaboration
The research team is working on a three-year multicountry project to develop better operational tools to improve the household food security and nutritional impact in agricultural development projects funded by IFAD. This year, survey work has commenced in Honduras and Mali as part of a study on the development of methods that can identify food-insecure households. Three rounds of household surveys and two rounds of participatory rural appraisal (PRA) activities have been undertaken in the western region of Honduras. In Mali, two rounds of household surveys have been completed in the Zone Lacustre region and PRA work commenced. Preparatory work has begun for household surveys in Malawi, to be undertaken in 1998. See Honduras research results. (See additional activity in Malawi).
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