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Report on Impact and Evaluation of 1St Project Cycle Strengthening Women’s Ability for Productive New Opportunities (SWAPNO) Report on Impact and Evaluation of 1st Project Cycle October 2017 Evaluation conducted by Bangladesh Institute of Development Studies (BIDS) Final Report IMPACT EVALUATION OF THE 1ST CYCLE OF ‘SWAPNO’ Kazi Iqbal (Study Director) Minhaj Mahmud Tahreen Tahrima Chowdhury Paritosh K. Roy Amin Bin Hasib BANGLADESH INSTITUTE OF DEVELOPMENT STUDIES Table of Contents Executive Summary........................................................................................................................................ 1 Chapter 1 ....................................................................................................................................................... 3 Introduction ............................................................................................................................................... 3 Scope of Work ....................................................................................................................................... 4 Deliverables ........................................................................................................................................... 4 Chapter 2 ....................................................................................................................................................... 5 Literature Review: How SWAPNO Fares with Other Graduation Models.................................................. 5 Graduation models involving Asset Transfers or Public Works .............................................................. 5 Targeting beneficiaries and wage setting ................................................................................................. 8 Project monitoring ............................................................................................................................... 10 Chapter 3 ..................................................................................................................................................... 12 Sampling and Methodology ...................................................................................................................... 12 Distribution of sample ......................................................................................................................... 12 Survey instruments ............................................................................................................................... 12 Method adopted for impact evaluation ................................................................................................. 13 Chapter 4 ..................................................................................................................................................... 15 Demographic and Socioeconomic Profile ................................................................................................. 15 4.1 Household size and age distribution ............................................................................................... 15 4.2 Marital Status of Female Household Head ...................................................................................... 16 4.3 Education of Household Heads (Female) ....................................................................................... 16 4.4 Occupation of female head ............................................................................................................. 16 Chapter 5 ..................................................................................................................................................... 18 Income, Assets and Expenditure .............................................................................................................. 18 5.1 Household income and poverty ...................................................................................................... 18 5.2 Household Expenditure .................................................................................................................. 24 5.3 Asset and Land Holdings ................................................................................................................ 24 Chapter 6 ..................................................................................................................................................... 28 Food Security and Coping with Disasters ................................................................................................. 28 6.1 Food Security ................................................................................................................................. 28 6.2 Coping with Natural Disasters ........................................................................................................ 30 Chapter 7 ..................................................................................................................................................... 32 Education, Health and Nutrition .............................................................................................................. 32 7.1. Education of children .................................................................................................................... 32 7.2 Health of beneficiary women .......................................................................................................... 32 7.3 Water and sanitation ....................................................................................................................... 34 7.4 Child health .................................................................................................................................... 35 Chapter 8 ..................................................................................................................................................... 36 Women Empowerment and Aspiration .................................................................................................... 36 Chapter 9 ..................................................................................................................................................... 40 Training: What Did the Beneficiaries Learn? ............................................................................................ 40 9.1 Participation in training................................................................................................................... 40 9.2 Perception of the beneficiaries about the courses ............................................................................ 40 9.3 Module specific test of knowledge .................................................................................................. 41 9.4 Knowledge about violence and places to lodge complaints ............................................................. 42 9.5 Knowledge about rights and entitlements ....................................................................................... 42 9.6 Knowledge about laws .................................................................................................................... 43 Chapter 10 ................................................................................................................................................... 46 Through the lens of SDGF Evaluation Criteria ........................................................................................ 46 Relevance ............................................................................................................................................. 46 Effectiveness ........................................................................................................................................ 46 Efficiency ............................................................................................................................................. 47 Impact.................................................................................................................................................. 48 Sustainability ........................................................................................................................................ 50 Chapter 11 ................................................................................................................................................... 51 Conclusion: Some Insights on Project Design .......................................................................................... 51 List of Tables Table A3.1: Distribution of sample by district, sub-districts and union .................................................................. 13 Table 4.1: Average HH size, Female Headed HH and Average Age of Women ................................................... 15 Table 4.2: Age distribution and Dependency Ratio .................................................................................................... 15 Table 4.3: Marital status of female head ........................................................................................................................ 16 Table 4.4: Education of Household Head (Female) - End-line ................................................................................ 16 Table 4.5: Percentage of households with primary occupation of female household heads- End-line .............. 17 Table 5.1: Household size and number of income earners ........................................................................................ 19 ii Table 5.2: Household and per capita income
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