Summary information

Study title

Household Survey for Evaluation of a Project Strengthening Small Farmers' Agribusiness Capabilities in Western Honduras, 2014

Creator

Lombardini, S., Oxfam GB

Study number / PID

7949 (UKDA)

10.5255/UKDA-SN-7949-1 (DOI)

Data access

Restricted

Series

Not available

Abstract

Abstract copyright UK Data Service and data collection copyright owner.The Household Survey for Evaluation of a Project Strengthening Small Farmers' Agribusiness Capabilities in Western Honduras, 2014 data were collected by Oxfam GB as part of the organisation's Global Performance Framework. Under this framework, a small number of completed or mature projects are selected at random each year for an evaluation of their impact, known as an Effectiveness Review. The data were used to evaluate the impact of the "Strengthening small-scale farmers' agribusiness capabilities in Western Honduras" project, which took place between 2010 and 2014. The project aimed to strengthen the socio-productive process of sustainable development by promoting competitive economic initiatives in six municipalities in the Coban department. The intervention involved supporting home gardens, integrated farms, and access to markets with high-value crops. In addition, the project supported the organisation and strengthening of rural banks to increase access to credit. Data collection for the evaluation took place in March 2014. A household survey was carried out with 155 households currently involved in the project (Group A) and with 288 comparison households never involved in any Oxfam project (Group C). In addition to this, a sample of 148 households was interviewed from those households that participated in previous similar Oxfam projects between 2007 and 2010 but was not currently involved in any Oxfam project (Group B). The evaluation employed a quasi-experimental approach to analyse the difference in outcomes, using demographic variables and recall data from 2007 to control for differences between groups. Anonymisation: Community names have been removed and replaced with codes in random order. The following variables have been recoded so as to prevent unique cases that may allow identification of the respondents: household size (capped at 12 members), age (binned in 5-year...
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Methodology

Data collection period

01/03/2014

Country

Honduras

Time dimension

Cross-sectional (one-time) study

Analysis unit

Families/households
Subnational
Consumers
Households

Universe

353 households with rural bank members in Western Honduras.

Sampling procedure

Simple random sample
Purposive selection/case studies
Beneficiary households were randomly sampled. Control households were selected purposefully, in order to survey households who were most similar to beneficiary group.

Kind of data

Numeric

Data collection mode

Face-to-face interview

Access

Publisher

UK Data Service

Publication year

2016

Terms of data access

The Data Collection is available to UK Data Service registered users subject to the End User Licence Agreement.

Use of the data requires approval from the data owner or their nominee.

Additional conditions of use apply:

Before publishing any study resulting from the use of the data (including online working papers, blogs, printed journals, presentations at public conferences, etc.), I agree to submit at least two weeks in advance any proposed publication to Oxfam's Programme Quality Team (ppat@oxfam.org.uk), to ensure that the content referring to Oxfam is accurate.

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