Namibia - Indigenous Natural Products

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The eval­u­ation employed a mixed-methods approach that included qual­itative and quan­ti­ta­tive methods.

Qualitative analysis was conducted using Key Infor­mant Inter­views (KIIs) and Focus Group Discussions (FGDs) with the PPO mem­ber-households and management, as well as with other relevant stakeholders.

In the case of the quantitative analysis, control groups were not available for the evaluation of the INP sub-activity because the intervention cov­ered nearly the entire INP producer pop­u­la­tion. A before-and-after dose-response model was employed. The model attempts to estimate the marginal effects of different inter­ven­tion levels (e.g., intens­ity of training or number and type of grants) on out­puts and out­comes of inter­est at critical points within the program logic.

Pre-Post Depending on the research question: PPO, household, individual

Household survey: The primary unit of analysis is the household. The definition of a household for the purposes of this survey was a group of people that lived in the same compound and took meals together at least 4 days a week, as well as young children living elsewhere that were answerable to the head of the household. Several questions in the questionnaire apply to each individual family member.

Sample survey data [ssd]

2013-2014 qualitative data collection covered the following topics:

- PPO organisational capacity

- Harvest, sales and income

- Household wellbeing

- Intra-household gender considerations

- Sustainability

2011-2014 quantitative data collection:

- Household surveys. Two rounds of the INP survey, which were expli­citly designed for the evaluation, tracked the same group of 300 INP har­vester-house­holds in 2011 (base­line), and 2014 (endline). To compensate for INP harvesters not accessible during baseline an additional 200 were interviewed at end­line to bring the endline total to 500 harverster-households. The survey was intended to pro­­vide infor­ma­tion on important mea­­sures of impact, as well as on house­hold char­acter­is­tics and dem­o­graphics.

- Organisational surveys. "Factsheets" were completed for each PPO in order to track governance and management improvements at the PPO level and collect fixed-effect covariates for household-level multivariate analysis. The expectation was that the factsheets would be completed using the implementer's database of monitoring data with any remaining unanswered ques­tions being answered during the fielding of the household survey.

- Implementer databases. These included program mon­itor­ing outputs tracked by the implementer, Natural Resources Institute (NRI), University of Green­wich.

Northern Communal Areas of Namibia