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BANGLADESH
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Work on Improving Food Security in Bangladesh 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.
Collaborators:
- Bangladesh Institute of Development Studies
- Department of Applied Economics, University of Minnesota
- International Science and Technology Institute Inc.
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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 was completed in mid-2000. The research was jointly carried out by FCND and the Market and Structural Studies Division of IFPRI (MSSD).
Collaborators:
- Ministries of trade and Supply, and Agriculture and Land Reclamation
- Faculty of Agricultural Economics at Zagazig University
- the Faculty of Economics and Political Science at Cairo University
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HONDURAS
- IFAD Collaboration
In 1999, the research team completed the development of operational tools for identifying food-insecure households in Honduras. Three rounds of household surveys and two rounds of participatory rapid appraisal (PRA) activities were undertaken in the western region of Honduras.
Collaborators:
- Instituto Interamericano de Cooperación para la Agricultura
- Technical Division of the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD)
PRAF (Programa de Asignación Familiar)
This project is designed to assess the impact of PRAF on poor households. PRAF is a social program operating in targeted localities within Honduras. It provides cash to poor households, with payment conditioal on school attendance of children grades 1-4 and attendance by pregnant women and mothers of children under 3 at preventative health services.
Collaborators:
- Programa de Asignación Familiar (PRAF)
- Government of Honduras
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MALAWI
- IFAD Collaboration
In 1999, the research team completed the development of operational tools for identifying food-insecure households in Malawi.
Household surveys were conducted in collaboration with:
- Bunda College of Agriculture
- Technical Division of the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD)
Poverty Monitoring System (PMS)
Beginning in 1998, FCND provided technical assistance to the Government of Malawi to develop a national Poverty Monitoring System (PMS). The project works to build capacity within Malawian institutions to collect socioeconomic data related to poverty, analyze survey data, and disseminate results of policy analyisis for formulation of strategies within Malawi's Poverty Alleviation Program (PAP).
Collaborators:
- National Economic Council (NEC)
- National Statistical Office (NSO)
- Center for Social Research (CSR)
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MALI
- IFAD Collaboration
In 1999, the research team completed the development of operational tools for identifying food-insecure households in Mali. Two rounds of household surveys were completed in the Zone Lacustre region as well as participatory rapid appraisals in order to identify food-insecure households.
Collaborators:
- Ministère du Développement Rural et de L'Environnement
- Technical Division of the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD)
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MEXICO
- PROGRESA (Programa de Educación, Salud y Alimentación)
The Education, Health, and Nutrition Program of Mexico.
This project was completed at the end of 2000 and assessed the impact of the Programa Nacional de Educación, Salud, y Alimentación (PROGRESA). The evaluation analyzed the extent to which PROGRESA was delivering interventions as intended including an assessment of program delivery systems, information systems, training, administration and incentive structures, household selection, and the impact of the program on health, education, child nutrition, consumption, adult and child labor supply, the status of women, the use of schools and health facilities and more general community effects.
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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. The team 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.
Collaborators:
- Department of Population and Social Development of the Ministry of Planning and Finance
- Department of National Statistics
- Eduardo Mondlane University
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NICARAGUA
- The project will assess the impact of the pilot phase of the Red de Protección Social (RPS) to evaluate whether the pilot social safety-net program is performing as it was intended.
Collaborators:
- Red de Protección Social, the Government of Nicaragua
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SOUTH AFRICA
- Public Works on the Western Cape
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.
Collaborators:
- Land and Agriculture Policy Centre
- Southern Africa Labor Development Unit (SALDRU) of the University of Cape Town
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ZIMBABWE
- In collaboration with researchers in Oxford, Amsterdam, and Zimbabwe, the research team examined the impact of poverty reducing and poverty preventing policies on households resettled on formerly White commercial farms after Independence in Zimbabwe. It drew on a panel data set covering 400 households initially surveyed in 1983/84, with further surveys conducted in 1987 and annually since 1992. A model was constructed that links measures of household welfare to access to improved health care, agricultural extension, and drought relief. The model assessed the impact of these on both the level and change in welfare across households, over time and on a regional basis. The team began 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.
Collaborators:
- Center for the Study of African Economies, Oxford University
- Free University, Amsterdam
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