BRACC Baseline Survey Results - Balaka and Phalombe, presented by Jan Duchoslav (IFPRI Malawi): BRACC resilience learning event, 11-12 Feb, 2020, Lilongwe, Malawi

1. BASELINE SURVEY RESULTS
Jan Duchoslav
Malawi Strategy Support Program
International Food Policy Research Institute
Lilongwe | 11 February 2020

2. Survey locations
Balaka
87
Phalombe
137

3. Household baseline characteristics
Household size
4.5
Dependency ratio
1.2
Head age
41.5
Head some education
81%
Female head
36%
Head married
70%

4. Household baseline characteristics
Durable assets (MWK)
1.1M
Consumption (MWK/p)
111K
Bank account
22%
Ultra-poor
53%
Livestock (TLU)
0.12
Poor
81%

5. Poverty and target groups
Baseline survey
poor = below national poverty line
ultra-poor = below national food poverty line
PROSPER
target groups
from administrative data
[CELLRAN
GE]
53%
[CELLRAN
GE]
28%
[CELLRAN
GE]
19%
[CELLRAN
GE]
28%
[CELLRAN
GE]
47%
[CELLRAN
GE]
25%

6. Household size

7. Household dependency ratio

8. Highest level of education in household

9. Value of durable assets

10. Livestock holdings

11. Shocks faced by households (5 years)
0
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50
1 3136
Numberofshocksin5years
Number of households
Total

12. Shocks faced by households (5 years)
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1 3136
Numberofshocksin5years
Number of households
Drought Total

13. Shocks faced by households (5 years)
0
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10
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1 3136
Numberofshocksin5years
Number of households
Drought Flood Total

14. Shocks faced by households (5 years)
0
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10
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1 3136
Numberofshocksin5years
Number of households
Drought Flood Community-level shocks Total

15. 0
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1 3136
Numberofshocksin5years
Number of households
Drought Flood Community-level shocks Household-level shocks
Shocks faced by households (5 years)
38%
16%
32%
14%

16. Shocks and safety nets
Droughts in 5 yrs
3.8
Food transfer in past yr
19%
Shock in past month
16%
Public works in past yr
18%
Floods in 5 yrs
1.6
Cash transfer in past yr
8%

17. Coping strategies (1 month)

18. Consumption expenditure

19. Food consumption score

20. Energy availability per adult mail equivalent

21. Village size
Before listing
Overreporting: 78.4%
Mean discrep.: 49.6%
Correlation: 57.0%
After listing
Overreporting: 78.6%
Mean discrep.: 28.5%
Correlation: 78.4%

22. THANK YOU
QUESTIONS?

23. Village size
Data source Number of
villages
% over-
reported
Mean
discrepancy
Correlation
coefficient
Chiefs (before listing) 148 78.4 49.6 0.570
Chiefs (after listing) 224 78.6 28.5 0.784
DC register 69 72.5 44.6 0.635
EPA register 94 79.8 91.3 0.287
Census 222 51.8 50.3 0.627