Increased access to productive economic resources

Indicator Name % of participants in SCI and Partner assisted programs who have increased access to productive economic resources (assets, credit, income or employment)
Indicator ID in PRIME IN00041120

Definition

Definition

Productive economic resources include- assets (land, housing, businesses, livestock, or financial assets such as savings), credit, wages or self-employment, and income.

Eligible programs will include activities to promote participation in micro, small, and medium enterprises; workforce development programs that have job placement activities; and programs that build individuals’ assets (such as land redistribution or titling; housing titling; agricultural programs that provide assets such as livestock; programs designed to help adolescent females and young women set up savings accounts).

Indicator contextualization should specify the types of assets and for which interventions participation/ benefit is being measured. This indicator needs a baseline value of productive economic resources.  When calculating, if any of the Productive economic resources increase, these counts.

Programs include:

  • Value chain activities and market strengthening activities working with micro, small, and medium enterprises;
  • financial inclusion programs that result in increased access to finance, including programs designed to help youth set up savings accounts
  • workforce resilience programs that have job placement activities;
  • programs that build or secure access to physical assets, such as land redistribution or titling, and programs that provide assets such as livestock

This indicator does NOT track access to services, such as business resilience services or agriculture, food security, or nutrition training.

The base for the indicator is the required indicator for all activities:

PM01- Number of individuals participating in USG food security programs (as a denominator when using the PMIS/IPTT)
Numerator

From IPTT: calculate the total number of participants who have increased access to productive economic resources (from baseline/ previous period)

From survey: calculate the total number of participants who have increased access to productive economic resources (from baseline/ previous period)
Denominator

From IPTT: calculate the total number of individuals participating in SCI food security programs, i.e., programs designed to increase access to productive economic resources.
From Survey: total number of individual program participants surveyed

Recommended Means of Verification

This is an adopted and modified indicator from BHA’s Monitoring Indicators for Resilience Food Security Activities and part of the ‘Required’ indicator: https://www.usaid.gov/sites/default/files/2022-05/USAID-BHA_Indicator_Handbook_Part_II_June_2021.pdf.
- PM34- GNDR-2: Percent of participants in USG-assisted programs designed to increase access to productive economic resources (assets, credit, income, or employment) who are female
- PM35- YOUTH-3: Percent of participants in USG-assisted programs designed to increase access to productive economic resources who are youth (15-29)T. The difference is that the BHA indicator only measures access, whereas the proposed indicator measures an increase in access.

This proposed indicator can be calculated using 2 methods:

 

1. From IPTT/ Program records:

- Denominator: From IPTT, calculate the total number of individuals participating in SCI food security programs, i.e., programs designed to increase access to productive economic resources
- Numerator calculates the total number of participants who have increased access to productive economic resources (from baseline/ previous period)

   

2. Alternatively, this can be calculated through a survey.

- Numerator: From the survey, calculate the total number of participants who have increased access to productive economic resources (from baseline/ previous period)
- Denominator: Total number of individual program participants surveyed

Indicator Attributes

Indicator Prioritisation Global Indicator
Level of Indicator Outcome
Indicator Context Type Quantitative
Theme Child Poverty
Sub Theme Food Security and Livelihoods
Common Approach Household Economy Analysis, Life Skills for Success
Context Development

Measurement Guidance 

Frequency of Data Collection Annually
Unit of Measure Individual
Data Format Percent
Direction of Desired Change Increasing
Number of Decimal Points Zero
Nature Cumulative
Recommended Disaggregations Age , Disability, Gender , Settlement, Migration Status

Tools

Key Questions:

  1. Over the last one year (or since the XXX project/program started), have you participated in any of the following interventions of the program? - multiple selection (include which are appropriate for the program, examples are illustrative only):
  1. Received Training from the program
  2. Received Livestock from the program
  3. Received Livestock/ agricultural input/ support from the program
  4. Received cash support from the program
  5. Received business support from the program
  6. Supported establish a linkage with the market/ private sector
  7. Included in the Savings scheme/savings group
  8. community-based savings and micro-finance
  9. Apprenticeship or Job placement

 

  1. Over the last one year (or since the XXX project/program started), have any of the following increased- multiple selection (include which are appropriate for the program, examples are illustrative only):
  1. Asset Livestock: Yes/No
  2. Asset Land: Yes/No
  3. Asset housing: Yes/No
  4. Income: Yes/No
  5. Employment/ Wage-employment: Yes/No
  6. Access to formal Credit: Yes/No
  7. Access to Savings scheme: Yes/No
  8. Diversified livelihood activities: Yes/No

 

3. If yes (to any of the above), what are the reasons for the increase?

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