Impact Evaluation of the Lesotho Child Grants Programme and the Sustainable Poverty Reduction through Income, Nutrition and access to Government Services project

The scope of the household survey includes:

• HOUSEHOLD ROSTER: socio-demographic characteristics, education (ever attended, currently attending, grade attending, educational expenses)
• CROP PRODUCTION: crops planted, area planted, crops harvested, harvest used for own-consumption, crops sold, crops sharecropped-out)
• HOMESTEAD GARDENING: vegetables planted and fruits grown, vegetables planting techniques, number of vegetables harvests, vegetables and fruits processed and processing techniques, vegetables and fruits sales
• LIVESTOCK PRODUCTION: type and number of livestock owned, purchased, sold, value of purchases and sales, sales of livestock by-products
• AGRICULTURAL INPUTS: type of crops/livestock input used/owned/ rented/borrowed/used for free, and value of purchases and rentals
• NON-FARM ENTERPRISES: type of non-farm business, number of employees, wages paid, input expenses, including from local businesses, sales and value of assets
• FAMILY LABOUR AND TIME USE: type of wage labour (formal/casual), intensity of labour and wage received, time spent farming/herding livestock/ engaged in non-farm business/doing chores/ participating in social meetings and gatherings, child labour hazards
• PUBLIC TRANSFERS: type of public programme and value received
• FOOD CONSUMPTION: type of food eaten in the last 7 days and value (74 items)
• NON-FOOD CONSUMPTION: type of consumption in the last 7 days (frequent items) and in the last 3 months (non-frequent items)
• PURCHASE LOCATION: location of the market transaction
• CHILDREN FEEDING PRACTICES: young children feeding practices module, following WHO and UNICEF guidelines
• WOMEN DIETARY DIVERSITY: minimum dietary diversity for women module, following FAO guidelines
• FOOD SECURITY: Food Insecurity Experience Scale module, following FAO guidelines
• HEALTH: type of health care provider consulted in the last three months and expenditures
• SAVINGS AND LENDING: type of saving, amount saved, frequency of savings, use of money saved, purchase on credit and amount, type of loans, amount borrowed and outstanding amount, use of the amount borrowed
• FINANCIAL LITERACY: budget keeping, concept of interest rate
• RISK ATTITUDES: general willingness to take risk, willingness to take risk in agriculture and risk-taking in borrowing and investment on a 1-10 likert scale, choice of lotteries with a certain equivalent and a risky game
• HOUSING AND WEALTH: housing conditions (floor, walls, roof, toilet), type of occupancy, access to electricity, ownership of durables
• DECISION-MAKING: one woman and one man responding to decision-making in the household
• ASPIRATIONS AND EXPECTATIONS: Cantrill's ladder of life in two and five years, expectations about income, locus of control via Internality, Powerful Others and Chance scale by Levenson
• ANTHROPOMETRICS: height, weight, mid-upper arm circumference
• CGP OPERATIONAL PERFORMANCE: CGP payment collection, type of payment, instructions abut CGP use
• SPRINGS OPERATIONAL PERFORMANCE: engagement, training activities and perceptions concerning: a) savings groups; b) homestead gardening; c) nutrition training; d) market clubs; e) One-Stop/Shop Citizen days

The scope of the community survey includes:

• KEY INFORMANT CHARACTERISTICS: gender, age, role in the community
• CIVIL INFRASTRUCTURE: number of villages in the community, access by road, walking distance between chief house and main road, quality of main road, name of nearest town
• WAGES AND AGRICULTURAL PRICES: wage for adult men doing casual labour in crop and livestock production, wage for adult women doing casual labor in crop production and domestic work, wage for adolescents doing casual labour, cost of renting tractor or a plough, cost of basal and top-dressing fertilizer
• RETAIL PRICES: retail prices of food and non-food items
• HEALTH SERVICES PROVISION: type of service provider, location, use by community members, availability of medicines, HIV testing and ARV
• SCHOOL SERVICES PROVISION: type of service provider, location, use by community members, availability of meals, fees charged
• PUBLIC PROGRAMMES: availability of pubblic programmers and type of services/goods offered

The scope of the non-farm business survey includes: type of non-farm business, number of employees, wages paid, input expenses, including from local businesses, sales and value of assets