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Getting the Most Out of Participatory Impact Assessment: Reflections from a Multi-Country Cash Transfer Impact Assessment

Published by: IDS

Mixed methods approaches are widely used in impact evaluations, but all too often a ‘methodological gap’ emerges between broad, large-scale surveys and in-depth, small-scale qualitative investigation that can be difficult to bridge. In this CDI Practice Paper we reflect on a multi-country impact assessment of cash transfer programmes in sub-Saharan Africa.

Social Protection, Food Security and Nutrition in Six African Countries

Published by: IDS

Evaluations of social protection interventions across Africa often register significant success in improving household food security indicators, but little or no improvement in individual nutritional outcomes. One reason is under-coverage of poor people; another is the low value of social transfers. This paper reviews experiences with social protection in six African countries – Ethiopia, Malawi, Mozambique, Tanzania, Uganda and Zambia.

The Political Economy of Agricultural Commercialisation in Malawi

This paper examines the political economy of agricultural commercialisation in Malawi over the past three or so decades both in a...

A Longitudinal Tracker Study on Groundnut Commercialisation and Livelihood Trajectories in Malawi

APRA seeks to generate new evidence on agricultural commercialisation pathways in rapidly changing rural contexts in Africa, assessing...

The Changing Distribution of Public Education Expenditure in Malawi, January