Households meeting basic needs (%)
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This indicator measures the percentage of beneficiary households who report being able to meet their basic needs (all/most), as they define and prioritize them. It uses a standardized scale of quantified responses (all/most) based on respondent's own evaluation of their ability to meet their basic needs.
Basic needs refers to the essential goods, utilities, services or resources required on a regular or seasonal basis by households for ensuring long term survival AND minimum living standards, without resorting to negative coping mechanisms or compromising their health, dignity and essential livelihood assets.
This indicator attempts to measure how well beneficiary households are able to meet their basic needs (as they define the term) before and after receiving cash. The indicator does not attempt to indicate attribution, nor to measure the precise contribution of the multipurpose cash transfer. Depending on the size and duration of the transfer, the expected results will differ.
A household is defined as a person or group of persons that usually live and eat together. They are “beneficiary households” if they have received direct services from Save the Children or partners who have received SC funding.
Numerator
Number of beneficiary households who report being able to meet their basic needs (all/most) as they define and prioritize them.
Denominator
Total number of surveyed beneficiary households.
This indicator is measured using individual interviews with a representative sample of target beneficiary household representatives assessing their ability to meet the basic needs of their households, as they define and prioritize them. Use the following questions:
What are your households’ main basic needs (needs your HH prioritizes each month)? (Respondents’ answers should match to a pre-identified list of needs, such as food, shelter/rent, utilities, hygiene, household NFIs, health, other, etc.)
To what extent is your household able to meet its basic needs as you defined them? (Response options of all/most/some/none). The question should not specifically mention the cash transfer, nor should the enumerator rigidly define ‘basic needs’.
Optional question: If not ‘all’, which basic needs are your household currently unable to fulfil? (Respondents’ answers should match to a pre-defined list of needs, such as food, shelter/rent, utilities, hygiene, household NFIs, health, other, etc.)
Count the number of beneficiary households per response category (all/most/some/none). For this indicator we only count all and most
To calculate the indicator, count the number of respondents per response category (all/most), and calculate each category as a percentage of the total number of respondents. For example, if there were 100 respondents and 30 answered ‘all’, and 25 answered most, the percentage who report being able to meet all their basic needs would be 30%, and the percentage who can meet most of their basic needs is 25%,and so on for each of the response categories. Total for the indicator will be 55%.
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"To what extent is your household able to meet its basic needs as you define and prioritize them?" - line 119
Multipurpose Outcome Indicators and Guidance: Medium-Term Outcomes - Basic Needs & Sector Specific: Basic Needs: p15 - 17 (CALP Network):
https://www.calpnetwork.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/CALP-MPC-Outcomes-EN-final.pdf
MPC toolkit:
https://resourcecentre.savethechildren.net/document/multipurpose-cash-assistance-mpca-monitoring-evaluation-accountability-and-learning-meal-toolkit/