Project

Impact Surveys of Relief and Rehabilitation Operations in the Horn of Africa

Client

UN Food and Agricultural Organization

Year

2007

Description

The Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) launched large relief and rehabilitation operations in the Horn of Africa in 2005-2007 to mitigate the effects of drought and conflict. The people targeted live in the most vulnerable pastoral and agro-pastoral areas of Ethiopia, Northern Uganda, Somalia, Southern Sudan and north and eastern Kenya.  FAO has contracted with Kimetrica to assess the impact of its programmes in five core areas. These are:
1. Seeds and fertiliser and other crop production support packages

2. Land tenure and management related interventions

3. Support HIV/AIDs victims (Uganda only)

4. Livestock: restocking and de-stocking

5. Livestock disease control

Although these interventions are familiar in emergency settings, relatively complete and quantitative studies of their impact and performance are rare. This impact survey is being undertaken to better inform FAO Management and other stakeholders working with FAO, on the impacts of FAO household -level interventions.  The cross-country study will also allow comparisons of similar emergency intervention types that respond to very different types of emergencies, including combinations of drought, insecurity, and livestock disease outbreaks.
The impact survey will feed into and complement a comprehensive evaluation of FAO's emergency and rehabilitation work in the Horn of Africa, which will be undertaken based on documentation review, field visits and interviews with stakeholders of FAO's programme. The impact surveys constitute an integral part of the evaluation.