What's Cooking in Kenya? by Winnie Mwasiaji

1. Session 15: What is cooking?
10th Transfer Project Regional Meeting
Winnie Mwasiaji
FAO-KE

2. 3. How could governments design programs that facilitate
expansion of access to social protection and complementary
services while building resilience of beneficiary households?
1. Climate-adaptive practices are said to be positively
associated with resilience.…….. Could integrating cash transfer
with Farmers Field Schools (FFS) support greater climate
adoptive practices while building resilience of beneficiary
households to climate shocks?
Policy Choices
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2. Results from baseline study in Kenya suggest that “collective
action” could enhance resilience of beneficiaries and improve
on other household wellbeing …….what support works best -
individual vs group approach?

3. What is cooking?
• The study in Kenya and Malawi will build evidence on Inclusive Climate Action:
What is the impact of combining Social Protection and Agricultural?;
• Kenya is undertaking a randomized control trial study;
Randomization was done at the village level …..to avoid spillover;
75 Community- Based Organizations (CBOs) were randomly selected - from
51 villages (membership of 12 – 30 per group)
• In the study different aspects of the project will be measured in relation to the
outcomes:

4. T1- Composed of 25 CBOs
- To be provided with
Individual Grants (USD 31)
T2- Composed of 25 CBOs
- To be provided with Group
Enterprise Grants
(USD 584)
+
Training
T3- Composed 25 CBOs
- To be provided with
Individual Grants (USD 31)
+
Training
Treatment Packages
Training package
Climate-adaptive agriculture, Business and Financial Planning Module, PLEWS
(Predictive Livestock Early Warning System) and social protection

5. Expected Outcomes:
(i)(T1 vs.T2) – Differential impact of the training intervention on livelihoods of
beneficiaries - this will shed light on how integrating cash transfer with training
programs could impact on livelihoods of the beneficiaries?
…………………………………………….. are the trained farmers better-off? (a) training -
alleviating knowledge constraints and (b) enterprise grants alleviating liquidity
constraints;
(ii)(T2 Vs T3) - Differential impact of individual grants vs group enterprise grants –
………………………………………………………………………………………………… …………………
CBOs are known to provide important services in rural communities (e.g.
community savings & informal risk-sharing mechanisms) ………how do the
different channels of grant support (community vs individual level) affect
individual livelihoods or collective action capacities?