Impact Evaluation of the Sustainable Land and Water Resource Management Project 2016-2019
Mozambique, 2016 - 2019
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Impact Evaluation of the Sustainable Land and Water Resource Management Project 2016-2019
| Name | Country code |
|---|---|
| Mozambique | MOZ |
The main objective of this activity is to shed light on the transformative potential of smallholder irrigation in Mozambique. Irrigation is critical in ensuring sustainable livelihoods for farmers in the face of increasing climate uncertainty. Irrigation access allows farmers to cultivate crops outside of the main rainy season, potentially doubling farm incomes by allowing for the cultivation of two crop cycles instead of one. However, it is grossly underutilized in Sub-Saharan Africa, particularly in Mozambique where only 8 percent of all farmers have access to irrigation. Despite the transformative potential of irrigation, there are gaps in our understanding of how-to best plan and manage irrigation infrastructure programs. First, because irrigation infrastructure is never placed at random, the true impact of these investments on farmers’ welfare is not well known. Second, irrigation equipment is often not well managed and degrades easily over time from lack of maintenance. This impact evaluation proposes a novel strategy for simultaneously measuring a rigorous estimate of the returns to irrigation investments, as well as providing insight on how to choose participants of an irrigation infrastructure program such that the impact and sustainability of the irrigation infrastructure is maximized.
Household and Community
Version
V01 - Edited, anonymized dataset for public distribution
2023-08-15
Scope
This dataset comprises the baseline, midline, and endline data collected under the SLWRMP impact evaluation by DIME in Gaza province in Mozambique.
Coverage
Gaza province. Districts of Guija, Mabalane, Chicualacuala, Massangena
Producers and sponsors
| Name | Affiliation |
|---|---|
| Paul Christian | DIME1, World Bank |
Sampling
The Sustainable Land Water Resource Management Project (SLWRMP) provides 55 small-scale irrigation kits in the southern province of Gaza, Bali. The project is implemented by the provincial agriculture offices in four districts along the Limpopo River and Save River, chosen for their elevated climate risk and suitability for irrigation infrastructure.
The primary intervention is the provision of small-scale irrigation kits, each covering 5 or 10 hectares of land. The beneficiaries are designated a maximum of 0.5 hectares of land inside the kit, allowing 10 or 20 farmers to benefit, depending on the kit size. In addition to the physical infrastructure, the project provides training and monthly visits from district extension agents.
The sampling design involves two steps: 1) selecting suitable areas for irrigation based on technical considerations, and 2) identifying participants within these areas. The selection process is randomized at community level, with some communities using the Smallholder Priority Protocol (PMT) and others using a Decentralized Community Meeting approach.
Under the PMT, farmers are selected according to a fixed set of criteria for placing the schemes and priority is given to the smaller farmers in the community (between 0.5 and 1 hectare). In the Decentralized Community Meeting approach, communities have the freedom to decide on beneficiaries using subjective criteria provided by the project. Both groups were stratified at the district level, and the size of the kit was also taken into account to achieve equal representation in the four districts.
Household survey response rate of initial round sample:
Baseline: 74%
Midline: 89%
Endline: 86%
(replacements from the same sampling group were performed in each survey round)
Data collection
| Start | End | Cycle |
|---|---|---|
| 2016-07-19 | 2016-09-16 | Household Baseline |
| 2016-05-31 | 2016-07-23 | Community Baseline |
| 2018-10-29 | 2018-11-30 | Household Midline |
| 2018-09-29 | 2018-10-10 | Community Midline |
| 2019-10-31 | 2019-12-17 | Household Endline |
| 2019-11-05 | 2019-12-18 | Community Endline |
| 2018-09-29 | 2018-10-10 | Kit Midline |
| 2019-11-01 | 2019-12-16 | Kit Endline |
- Computer Assisted Personal Interview [capi]
Depositor information
| Name |
|---|
| DIME |
Data Access
| Name | Affiliation |
|---|---|
| Development Impact (DIME) | World Bank |
| Steven Glover | DIME |
Use of the dataset must be acknowledged using a citation which would include:
- the Identification of the Primary Investigator
- the title of the survey (including country, acronym and year of implementation)
- the survey reference number
- the source and date of download
Example:
Paul Christian (DIME1, World Bank). Mozambique - Impact Evaluation of the Sustainable Land and Water Resource Management Project 2016-2019 (SLWRMP 2016-2019). Ref: MOZ_2016-2019_SLWRMPIE_v01_M. Downloaded from [uri] on [date].
Disclaimer and copyrights
The user of the data acknowledges that the original collector of the data, the authorized distributor of the data, and the relevant funding agency bear no responsibility for use of the data or for interpretations or inferences based upon such uses.
Contacts
| Name | Affiliation | |
|---|---|---|
| Development Impact (DIME) | World Bank | dime@worldbank.org |
| Steven Glover | DIME | sglover1@worldbank.org |
Metadata production
DDI_MOZ_2016-2019_SLWRMPIE_v01_M_WB
| Name | Affiliation | Role |
|---|---|---|
| Development Data Group | World Bank | Documentation of the study |
2023-10-03
Metadata version
Version 01 (2023-10-03)