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

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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 intervals), size of house (capped at 4+ rooms) main work of household head (combined categories), and material of house roof (combined categories).

Main Topics:

Small-scale farming; access to credit; agricultural training.

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.

Face-to-face interview

Identifier
DOI https://doi.org/10.5255/UKDA-SN-7949-1
Metadata Access https://datacatalogue.cessda.eu/oai-pmh/v0/oai?verb=GetRecord&metadataPrefix=oai_ddi25&identifier=e93342a114f7aadfa7feb19bd9d7a4beac99f6338167885a043ecfcc772afd99
Provenance
Creator Lombardini, S., Oxfam GB
Publisher UK Data Service
Publication Year 2016
Funding Reference Oxfam GB
Rights Copyright Oxfam GB; <p>The Data Collection is available to UK Data Service registered users subject to the <a href="https://ukdataservice.ac.uk/app/uploads/cd137-enduserlicence.pdf" target="_blank">End User Licence Agreement</a>.</p><p>Use of the data requires approval from the data owner or their nominee.</p><p>Additional conditions of use apply:</p><p>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.</p>
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Representation
Resource Type Numeric
Discipline Economics; Social and Behavioural Sciences
Spatial Coverage Honduras