Household Survey for Evaluation of Climate Change Adaptation Project among Small Producers in Nicaragua, 2014

The <I>Household Survey for Evaluation of Climate Change Adaptation Project among Small Producers in Nicaragua, 2014</I> data were collected by Oxfam GB as part of the organisation's Global Performance Framework. Under this framework, a small number of completed or mature projects are selected at random each year for an evaluation of their impact, known as an Effectiveness Review. These data were used to evaluate the impact of the project titled 'Climate Change Adaptation among Small Producers'. Beginning in 2011, the project aimed to improve small producers' understanding of the impacts of climate change and to build their capacity to adapt to any changes it causes. Households were provided with seeds and livestock, and with training and technical support. Additionally, the project facilitated the creation of local producers’ cooperatives, including women-only cooperatives in several areas. A key element of the project was to encourage experimentation and adaptation in productive activities, through the above activities and the establishment of a revolving credit fund in each cooperative. The project aimed to have impact on direct beneficiaries, but also indirectly through encouraging participants to raise awareness and share what they have learned. In late 2014, Oxfam implemented a household survey to evaluate the success of the project. The questionnaire was administered to females only, in 101 households of project participants, 76 households of indirect beneficiaries, and 328 comparison households from communities with characteristics similar to those from where the participants were selected. Quasi-experimental methods were used to evaluate the impact of the project by matching project beneficiaries with non-beneficiaries on a range of characteristics. <br> <br> <I>Anonymisation:</I><br> Names of respondents and contact information have been removed. Community and municipality names have been removed and replaced with codes in random order. The following variables have been recoded so as to prevent unique cases that may allow identification of the respondents: household size (capped at 11 members), age (binned in 5-year intervals), size of house (removed outliers and capped) and other visible characteristics of property (grouped land area into intervals and capped, combined categories of wall materials).<br> <br><I>2014年尼加拉瓜小生产者气候变化适应项目评估家庭调查（Household Survey for Evaluation of Climate Change Adaptation Project among Small Producers in Nicaragua, 2014）</I>数据集由英国乐施会（Oxfam GB）作为该机构全球绩效框架（Global Performance Framework）的一部分收集所得。根据该框架要求，每年会随机选取少量已完成或趋于成熟的项目开展影响评估，此类评估被称为“效能审查（Effectiveness Review）”。本数据集被用于评估题为“小生产者气候变化适应”项目的实施成效。 该项目始于2011年，核心目标为提升小生产者对气候变化影响的认知水平，并强化其适应气候变化所引发各类变化的能力。项目为受助家庭提供种子与牲畜，同时配套开展培训与技术支持。此外，项目还推动了地方生产者合作社的组建，其中包括在多个地区设立女性专属合作社。项目的关键环节之一，是通过上述举措以及在各合作社设立循环信贷基金（revolving credit fund），鼓励生产活动中的试验探索与适应实践。项目不仅期望对直接受助群体产生影响，还希望通过引导项目参与者提升认知并分享所学经验，实现间接的辐射带动效应。 2014年末，乐施会开展家庭调查以评估该项目的实施成效。本次调查问卷仅面向女性受访者，共覆盖三类家庭：项目参与者家庭101户、间接受益家庭76户，以及来自与项目参与者所在社区特征相似社区的对照家庭328户。研究采用准实验方法（quasi-experimental methods），通过将项目受益户与非受益户在一系列特征维度上进行匹配，以评估项目的实际影响。 <I>匿名化处理：</I> 已移除所有受访者的姓名与联系信息。社区与市政名称已被移除，并替换为随机生成的编码。为避免出现可唯一识别受访者的个案，以下变量已完成重新编码：家庭规模（上限设为11人）、受访者年龄（以5年为区间进行分箱处理）、房屋面积（剔除异常值并设置上限），以及其他可用于识别的房产外观特征（将土地面积划分为区间并设置上限，合并墙面材料的分类类别）。