# of individuals reached through food security and livelihoods activities

This indicator captures the total unique number of individual beneficiaries (without double counting) participating in food security activities, i.e., activities with a food security purpose. Implementing partners should track the number of individual beneficiaries across different interventions within their own activity and report numbers of beneficiaries reached, not number of contacts with the activity or activity-supported actors. Examples of interventions that should be tracked may include ones that aim to improve: food availability; food safety; food access; utilization of food; and reliability or stability of access to food over time. Examples of such interventions include but are not limited to:

• People reached by community-based savings and loan and diversified livelihood activities
• Household-level water, sanitation, and hygiene interventions that improve access to safe drinking water and/or sanitation. (In these activities, every household member should be counted under this indicator.)
• Household-level food assistance, i.e. if households receive family-sized rations. (In these activities, every household member should be counted under this indicator).
• Provision of training, resources, or other services to farmers or other agriculture producers (e.g. irrigation training, agricultural financing, and distribution of drought-tolerant seeds).
• Individual-level food assistance, including adults and children that receive in-kind, non- therapeutic food, cash or voucher transfers to buy food from the activity.
• Nutrition-specific interventions that directly target adults (e.g. parents and other caregivers participating in community care groups).
• School feeding interventions.

Calculation: This is a count of the total number of unique individual beneficiaries participating in the food security activity.

Data Collection Method/Tool: Routine monitoring
Data Source: Activity records, monitoring checklist/form, registration / attendance sheet / records, unique identifier cards

Who Collects: Implementing partner staff
From Whom: Activity beneficiaries, staff who manage food security interventions

Frequency of Collection: Data will be on an ongoing/rolling/monthly basis.
Frequency of Reporting: Data will be reported in the semi-annual report, annual report and the final performance report. The SCI centre reporting is only on a bi-annual basis 31st of July and 31st of January.

How to Count/Aggregate Value: LOA values are the reported unique values at the end of the award counting only the unique number of individual beneficiaries, without double counting, who participate in interventions offered by a food security activity or directly benefit from the food security interventions. An individual will not be double counted even if an individual participates in multiple interventions.

Implementing partners are strongly encouraged to maintain a database as part of routine monitoring throughout the activity to record participation by individual beneficiaries and household members.

Baseline Value Info: Baseline value is zero.

 

Indicator Prioritisation

Level of Indicator

Indicator Context Type

Theme

Sub Theme

Common Approach

Frequency of Data Collection

Unit of Measure

Data Format

Direction of Desired Change

Number of Decimal Points

Indicator is Rounding

Nature

Recommended Disaggregations

An individual is counted if s/he comes into direct contact with the activity’s intervention. The intervention needs to be significant, meaning that if the individual is merely contacted or touched by an activity through brief attendance at a meeting or gathering, she/he should not be counted. An intervention is significant if one can reasonably expect and hold the implementing partner responsible for achieving progress toward, changes in behaviors or other outcomes for these individual beneficiaries based on the level of services and/or goods provided or accessed.
 
In cases where several individual beneficiaries in a household are beneficiaries of individual-level interventions, this indicator counts all activity beneficiaries in the household, not all household members. For example, if an adult female household member is a Program Participant of the supported savings group and her son is a Program Participant of the activity-supported agricultural skills training program, then only these two members of the household would be counted under this indicator. However, in cases where the activity provides services or improves access to resources/services that support all members of the household, then all household members should be included under this indicator.