Adaptive Social Protection Program Productive Inclusion (2018 Baseline Survey; 2021 Endline Survey) Chad

Chad is a fragile country where poverty affects 42% of the population and is particularly widespread in rural areas (Savadogo and Sanoh, 2021). Located in the Sahel, Chad suffers from civil conflict and is one of the most climate-vulnerable countries globally, facing recurrent food crises exacerbated by droughts and floods, which further deepen food insecurity. Gender inequality in Chad is also among the highest in the world. The Chad safety net project supported poor and vulnerable households through cash transfers combined with an economic inclusion program in two regions, Logone Occidental and Barh-el-Ghazal, and with a cash-for-work intervention in N’Djamena. In the two regions where the economic inclusion intervention took place, cantons and villages were selected. A baseline survey was conducted prior to the implementation of the economic inclusion intervention in November and December 2018. The baseline survey sample includes data from 88 villages benefiting from the cash transfer program. The repository also contains two ancillary datasets used for the study: one containing information used for proxy means testing and another detailing the treatment & sample status of the population across the 88 selected villages.  An endline survey was conducted after the implementation of the economic inclusion intervention in March and April 2021. The endline survey sample includes data from 88 villages benefiting from the cash transfer program.

The scope of the study covered the following topics:

• Employment
• Businesses
• Finance
• Housing
• Food security
• Relationships
• Preferences
• Psychosocial & mental health
• Food consumption
• Agriculture
• Livestock & fishery
• Assets
• Education and health spending
• Nonfood consumption
• Other programs
• Household transfers
• Shocks