Participatory Evaluation of our 2008 - Action Against Hunger

Figure 26. Wealth group analysis of FFS members and committees
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The wealth ranking results are encouraging for the effectiveness of FFS household targeting,
especially in Opejal and Aceno. Although there is not (yet) a specific target dictating what
proportion of participants should be ‘poor’ we would nonetheless expect that most participants
should fall into this category. At the same time, it may not be reasonable to expect that all
households are poor, as the programmatic requirements for land, labour, time, and finance may
prohibit some of the poorest households while increasing the likelihood that more ‘middle’
households join instead. The Opejal and Aceno results match this expectation, but the high
proportion of middle households in Oyoro is difficult to explain.
The wealth group composition of the group committees is also encouraging, especially if compared
with the preceding analysis of gender roles. The proportions within committee members are almost
equal to those of the full group, but with an apparently slight bias toward the higher group (i.e.
when compared with the corresponding plenary the committee members are more middle than
poor, more rich than middle).
As a final review of the analytical process behind geographic and household targeting, the map
(Figure 1) includes a layer of colour indicating the integrated food security phase classification
(IPC) at the time of programming. 22 Although the FFS groups are all in the lower Phase II area
(compared with Phase III in Gulu and Amuru), this was a more appropriate place for
implementation than the Phase III areas. Household returns were officially over in Lango, with
households already in the process of re-establishing and recreating livelihood activities, which in
turn allow greater FS engagement than displaced households or those in the process of return.
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