Gender and Groundnut Value Chains Impact Evaluation in Eastern Province, Zambia- Endline

The Gender and Groundnut Value Chains impact evaluation, conducted in Eastern Province, Zambia, tested the hypothesis that the gender mainstreaming interventions implemented by two Feed the Future mechanisms—Production, Finance, & Improving Technology Plus (PROFIT+) and Better Life Alliance (BLA)—assisted in maintaining or increasing women’s control over groundnut production, marketing, and proceeds as efforts at commercialization increased. Evaluation methods were a baseline (2014) and end line (2017) quantitative longitudinal household survey and a qualitative study. The quantitative endline survey was conducted in 2017 to follow up on respondents of the quantitative baseline survey, which was conducted in the project and comparison domains in 2014. The project domain consisted of Chipata, Katete, Lundazi, and Petauke districts, in which PROFIT+ and/or BLA worked, and chiefdoms in Nyimba, Mambwe, and Chadiza districts, in which BLA worked. The comparison domain consisted of areas in Nyimba, Mambwe, and Chadiza districts, excluding the chiefdoms in which BLA worked, and southern Chama district. The survey used a stratified multi-stage sampling design to obtain a random sample of households from the project and comparison domains, respectively. The sampling plan aimed to recruit 2,000 households for interviews in each of the two domains (i.e., 4,000 total) from 250 standard enumeration areas (SEAs). Both the main female adult (age 18 or over) decision maker in all selected households and the main male adult decision maker in approximately 38 percent of selected households were selected for interviews.