Strengthen PSNP4 Institutions and Resilience (SPIR), Ethiopia: Endline Survey

The Strengthen PSNP4 Institutions and Resilience (SPIR) Development Food Security Activity (DFSA) in Ethiopia was a five-year project (2016-2021) supporting the implementation of the fourth phase of the Productive Safety Net Programme (PSNP4) as well as providing complementary livelihood, nutrition, gender, and climate resilience activities to strengthen the program and expand its impacts. IFPRI conducted an experimental, quantitative impact evaluation of SPIR designed to measure the causal impact of multisectoral “graduation model” packages of interventions for improving outcomes in several domains, including livelihoods, food security, child nutrition, women’s empowerment, mental health, and intimate partner violence (IPV). The impact evaluation used a clustered RCT design to learn about the effect of different combinations of the SPIR interventions on the well-being of PSNP4 households. These packages were combined into multisectoral graduation model programs and randomized at the kebele level into four treatment arms. The evaluation sample comprised of 192 kebeles and 15 woredas in the Amhara and Oromia regions. The baseline survey was conducted from March to May 2018, and 3,314 households were interviewed. The fieldwork for the midline survey took place between August and October of 2019, and a supplemental sample of 748 households was added to the original sample to have more children under the age of 2 years, putting the total sample interviewed at the midline to 3,968. The endline survey was conducted between February and April of 2021, and the final sample interviewed at the endline was 3,912 households. The survey instrument had three parts – household survey, female survey, and male survey, and was broadly similar across rounds, while some modules changed.

埃塞俄比亚强化PSNP4机构与韧性发展粮食安全活动（英文名称：Strengthen PSNP4 Institutions and Resilience，缩写SPIR；Development Food Security Activity，缩写DFSA）是一项为期五年（2016-2021年）的项目，旨在支持第四期生产安全网项目（Productive Safety Net Programme 4，简称PSNP4）的落地实施，并配套开展生计、营养、性别与气候韧性相关补充活动，以强化该项目并扩大其影响。国际粮食政策研究所（International Food Policy Research Institute，简称IFPRI）针对SPIR开展了实验性定量影响评估，旨在测算多部门“脱贫模式”干预组合在多个领域的因果影响，这些领域包括生计、粮食安全、儿童营养、妇女赋权、心理健康以及亲密伴侣暴力（Intimate Partner Violence，简称IPV）。本次影响评估采用整群随机对照试验（Randomized Controlled Trial，简称RCT）设计，以探究SPIR不同干预组合对PSNP4参与家庭福祉的影响。上述干预组合被整合为多部门脱贫模式项目，并以埃塞俄比亚基层乡级行政单位（kebele）为随机化单元划分为四个干预组。本次评估的样本覆盖阿姆哈拉州与奥罗米亚州的192个乡级行政单位（kebeles）及15个沃莱达（woredas）。基线调查于2018年3月至5月开展，共完成3314户家庭的访谈。中期调查实地工作于2019年8月至10月开展，为补充覆盖更多2岁以下儿童，研究团队在原始样本基础上新增748户家庭作为补充样本，使得中期调查总访谈样本量达到3968户。终线调查于2021年2月至4月开展，终线阶段最终访谈样本量为3912户家庭。本次调查工具包含三部分：家庭问卷、女性问卷与男性问卷，各轮次问卷大体保持一致，但部分模块存在调整。