Resilience in Burkina Faso: Impact evaluation of the 'Resilience, Food security and Nutrition' project
Titre
La résilience au Burkina Faso : Évaluation de l'impact du projet de ‘résilience, sécurité alimentaire et nutritionnelle’Publication date
2018-05-14Keywords
AgricultureClimate change
Climate change adaptation
Climate change mitigation
Disaster risk reduction
Gender analysis
Impact assessment
Livelihoods
Resilience
West Africa
Impact evaluation
Quasi-experimental evaluation
Propensity score matching
Women's empowerment
mixed method approach
Monitoring and evaluation
Country
Burkina FasoMetadata
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Oxfam GBSeries
Effectiveness ReviewsDocument type
Evaluation reportDescription
The Resilience, Food Security and Nutrition Project (Projet de Resilience, Securite Alimentaire et Nutritionnelle, PRSAN) was carried out in the North and Centre-North regions of Burkina Faso between 2013 and 2017 by Oxfam and Christian Aid, together with two implementing partners, the Alliance Technique d'Assistance au Developpement (ATAD) and the Office de Developpement des Eglises Evangeliques (ODE). The project was aimed at enabling particularly vulnerable households to increase their resilience and improve their food security and nutritional situation. Project activities included supporting households in crop production, market gardening, processing and household businesses, providing awareness-raising on good nutritional practices, carrying out community-level disaster assessments and establishing early-warning committees, and distributing livestock and cash transfers. The Effectiveness Review was aimed at evaluating the success of this project in enabling participants to build their resilience to shocks, stresses and uncertainty. This report is part of Oxfam's Effectiveness Review Series.