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Afghanistan Rural Enterprise Development Program (AREDP) Concept Note for Impact Evaluation

Reshad Sadozai , Mattea Stein, Maria Jones, Javaid Zeerak. Afghanistan Rural Enterprise Development Program (AREDP) Concept Note for Impact Evaluation. Key Issues. 75 % of population live in rural areas where agriculture is the primary activity;

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Afghanistan Rural Enterprise Development Program (AREDP) Concept Note for Impact Evaluation

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  1. Reshad Sadozai, Mattea Stein, Maria Jones, Javaid Zeerak Afghanistan Rural Enterprise Development Program (AREDP)Concept Note for Impact Evaluation

  2. Key Issues • 75% of population live in rural areas where agriculture is the primary activity; • High unemployment and poverty rates; • Shortage of business planning, management, and marketing know-how (BDS); • Shortage of access to formal, affordable, suitable credit

  3. AREDP • PDO • To Improve employment opportunities and income of rural men and women, and sustainability of targeted local enterprises. • Components • A. Community-led Enterprise Development • B. SME Development • C. Program Management Support

  4. Component A • Key Interventions Under Component A • Facilitating the formation of Savings Groups and delivering financial literacy training • Federating Savings Groups into Village Savings and Loan Associations (VSLAs) in order to provide access to credit • Facilitating the formation of Enterprise Groups and delivery of Business Development Services

  5. Research questions • What is the impact of facilitating the formation of community-based financial institutions and provision of financial literacy training on access to credit & household incomes? (including attitudes towards credit and lending) • What is the added impact of aggregating entrepreneurs into productive groups and provision of BDS on the following? • Enterprise sustainability/profitability • Access to markets • Employment creation • What is the disaggregated effect of program interventions on women in particular?

  6. Indicators

  7. Identification strategy SIT-1 SIT-2 Control

  8. Sample Universe

  9. Sampling Strategy (Actual #s of HHs and Villages TBD)

  10. Timeline D&R – 2 months FR – 1 year Midline – 2 years Endline – 5 years

  11. Impact evaluation team • AREDP • IE Specialist • M&E field staff (for data coll.) • Head of Office of M&L, AREDP • Program Mgmt Staff • DIME • Field Coordinator • Research Team • Academia • Lead Researcher

  12. Estimated budget • AREDP • Data collection • Data entry & cleaning • Data Analysis • DIME • Impact Evaluation • Data Analysis • Field Coord & Technical Assistance • AREDP Budget allocated for M&E – >$1.5million

  13. Parting Questions • Measuring social cohesion

  14. Questions & Discussion Fin

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