EPRP/SC

IMPACT MEASUREMENT TOOL

An Introduction

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Outline

Export-led Poverty Reduction Programme (EPRP)

EPRP/ITC tools

Impact Measurement Tool surveys

Household questionnaires

Indicators

Interviewing the households

Data collection tool

List of community producers

Data collection

Data processing on SAS

Impact measurement results

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Export-led Poverty Reduction Programme (EPRP)

Objectives:• Contribute to the Millennium Development Goals;

• Alleviate poverty through generation of new employment

opportunities and additional income.

Activities:Integrate the poor into export value chains of products and services

they can supply and enhance their ability to respond to market needs:

• Identification of products and services;

• Training on production and commercialisation techniques;

• Producer community building;

• Consolidation of trade support institutions;

• Linkages with international markets.

Outcome:• Creation of new jobs and additional income;

• Empowerment of women.

EPRP/ITC

technical inputs

Local Community

Trade Support

Institutions

Market Link

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Inclusive Tourism Training Modules

Artistic-cultural development

Artisanal products development

Agricultural development

Environmental management

EPRP Training Toolkit

ERP Concepts, Institutionalisation & Strategies

Community Production Approach

Managing Production and Marketing

Training and Adaptation Skills

How to Sustain EPR Projects

Opportunity Study Guidelines

Inclusive tourism

Commodities

EPRP Impact

Measurement Tool

(IMT)

EPRP/ITC Tools

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IMT Surveys

Tailor-made for the following sectors:

• Agricultural

• Textiles

• Inclusive Tourism

Undertaken in 3 stages of the project:

Survey 0: measurement at the beginning, prior to project implementation

Survey 1: half-way measurement of project impact

Survey 2: measurement at completion of project in order to assess final impact

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Survey

A. Social indicators

B. Economic

indicators

C. Community

development

D. Project-specific

information

(agriculture, textile or

tourism sector)

Household Questionnaires

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Social indicators:

- Housing situation

- Literacy and education

Economic indicators:

- Annual income

- Ownership of assets/livestock

Community development indicators:

- Nutrition

- Access to facilities (education, infrastructure, health services)

-Membership of co-operatives

Product-specific information:

- Materials used and availability

- Environmental impact

Indicators

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Interviewing the households…face-to-face with all household members

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Data collection tool…an Excel software tool was developed in 2003

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Data collection

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Data processing on SAS

…developed in 2008 to automate processing

Import and convert data collected from Excel

Application of the statistical operations

Creation of automatic reports containing graphs and tables.

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Impact measurement results (1)

IMT COMMUNITY BASED TOURISM – BRESIL

Social indicators: Type of job – household head

Results: Increase of number of workers in the services, especially in the tourism.

43%

1%

14% 14%17%

6% 4% 3%

24%19% 17% 16%

12%

5% 4% 3%

0%

10%

20%

30%

40%

50%

% o

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ads

Type of job - household heads

2005 2007

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Impact measurement results (2)

IMT COMMUNITY BASED TOURISM – BRESIL

Social indicators: Education level – family members

Results: Increase of number of workers in the services, especially in the tourism.

37%

22%

11%

5% 5% 5%10%

4%2%

10%

47%

12%8% 7%

5% 5% 5%2%

0%

10%

20%

30%

40%

50%

Illiterate Basic education

not

completed

High school

completed

Pre-school High school not completed

Basic education

completed

Literate University completed

University not

completed

% o

f to

tal b

en

efi

ciar

ies

Education level - family members

2005 2007

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Impact measurement results (3)

IMT COMMUNITY BASED TOURISM – BRESIL

Economic indicators: Family income level

Results: Increase of households income

7%

32%

27%

11%

4% 3% 4%1%

10%6%

22%

39%

14%

6% 5%2%

1%

6%

0%

10%

20%

30%

40%

50%

Up to 1/2 MS

1/2 - 1 MS 1 - 2 MS 2 - 3 MS 3 - 5 MS 5 - 10 MS More than 10 MS

No income Doesn't know/No

answer

% o

f to

tal h

ou

seh

old

s

Family income level

2005 2007 MS : minimum salary

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Impact measurement results (4)

IMT COMMUNITY BASED TOURISM – BRESIL

Tourism indicators: Population’s perception regarding tourist development’s principal

positive impact

Results: The large majority (73.3%) considers the generation of employment, work and

income as positive impact

Population’s perception regarding tourist

development’s principal positive impact

Creation of

employment,

work and

income

74%

Progress &

Development

5%

Courses &

Training

2%

Other

4%

Doesn't

know/No

answer

15%

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Thank you for attention