Impact Evaluation of the Social Support for Resilient Households Project 2023-2024 Baseline Malawi

This impact evaluation consists of two experimental studies to evaluate the socioeconomic impacts of the Social Support for Resilience Livelihoods Project (SSRLP), a project of the Government of Malawi, implemented by the Community Savings and Investment Promotion initiative (COMSIP) with support from IDA. Experiment 1 will assess the comparative impacts of enhanced livelihoods and graduation packages, while Experiment 2 will assess the impacts of a business-oriented package for youth called Youth Skills Challenge (YSC).

The dataset has baseline data from the Social Support for Resilience Livelihoods Project (SSRLP) project from 3,255 households across 2 districts in Malawi: Dedza and Nkhatabay, underneath experiment 1 and from 640 respondents across 5 districts of Malawi: Dedza, Nkhatabay, Nkhotakota,Rumphi and Lilongwe, underneath experiment 2.

The scope of the study includes:

• Identification information
• Household roster
• Migration
• Education
• Health
• Household assets
• Labor
• Agriculture
• Non-farm enterprise
• Other income
• Consumption (food and non-food)
• Food security
• Finance
• Social status and social capital
• Agency
• Well-being

Geographic Coverage

Experiment 1 collected baseline data from 3,255 households in 310 clusters across 2 districts in Malawi: Dedza and Nkhatabay.
Experiment 2's baseline consisted of 640 respondents in 178 clusters across 5 districts of Malawi: Dedza, Nkhatabay, Nkhotakota,Rumphi and Lilongwe.