Evaluating the Asset Transfer Model in Facilitating Sustainable Livelihoods in Rural Malawi

Fitzpatrick, Ellen; Akgüngör, Sedef

doi:10.3280/ecag2019-001007

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“…Networks contain resources that increase capabilities-the ability to access resources and combine those resources in new ways. Networks influence norms and behavior such as adoption of new techniques or technologies, or participation in collective activities (Fitzpatrick & Akgungor, 2019). Program activities that deepen and extend these networks contribute to sustainable outcomes by endogenizing capabilities within the communities.…”

Section: Catalyzing Capabilities To Ensure Sustainable Outcomes and I...mentioning

confidence: 99%

“…One of the clearly articulated outcomes of this program was the increase in income from advances in dairy productivity. As part of the postprogram evaluation, we examined the change in real net farm income for participants and compared it to a measure of living income (Fitzpatrick & Akgungor, 2019). 7 The calculation for the living income benchmark for this project was based on the Anker and Anker (2014) study of the living wage in the tea-growing area of Malawi.…”

Section: Dairy Development Asset Transfer-malawimentioning

confidence: 99%

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Assessing Sustainability in Development Interventions

Fitzpatrick

2022

Sustainable Development Goals Series

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Sustainability is often claimed as an impact in development interventions although there is rarely a shared understanding of what it means, how to design for it, and especially how to assess the likelihood that intended streams of benefits will continue. This chapter asserts that to design and later to evaluate an intervention with sustainable impacts, the intervention must deepen indigenous capabilities to manage the program, to solve problems, and to innovate. The design and implementation also must operate within environmental boundaries, not extracting resources beyond the ability to regenerate or degrading environmental services—that is, design and implementation must incorporate the primacy of the environment. A postprogram evaluation 3–10 years after a program has ended provides evidence on whether the program is likely to have sustainable impacts. A case study of an asset transfer program in Malawi highlights the criteria for evaluating sustainability: deepened capabilities and social capital, reinvestment in program activities, and the development of backward and forward linkages catalyzing growing economic opportunities.

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Section: Catalyzing Capabilities To Ensure Sustainable Outcomes and I...mentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Dairy Development Asset Transfer-malawimentioning

confidence: 99%