Quantitative data

A baseline survey was first conducted in April-May 2005 (before the initiation of the program), which collected household and individual related data on approximately 4400 households in both treatment and control communities. The survey also provided the information to determine household program eligibility and served as a check for the evaluation design by showing that households in the three intervention groups and the control communities were similar before the program started. This allows the interpretation of observed ex-post differences in outcomes between beneficiary and non-beneficiary households as causal impacts of the program and nothing else. A follow-up survey was collected in July-August 2006 (9 months after program initiation), in which the original households were re-interviewed. A third round is currently planned for summer of 2008 to study pilot program impacts, 18 months after the completion of the pilot.

Qualitative data

To complement and enrich the quantitative evaluation, a team of international and national researchers conducted a qualitative evaluation of the program in June 2006 as well as July 2007. These evaluations were based on focus groups and semi-structured interviews with a wide set of beneficiaries and other local actors in treatment and control communities, and in municipal headquarters.

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