Income-Generating Activities - Action Against Hunger

Field handbook • Scientific and Technical Department
Step Date Main objectives and criteria used
Assessment 2 January 2002 The “aggravating criteria”
• Family living in very precarious situation (populated
camp, empty destroyed house…)
• Family originally from outside Ambon (displaced
people from Seram, Buru,…)
• Woman alone with children (widow)
• Regularly borrowing money (high level of financial
dependency)
• Limited own assets and personal belongings
• No external help (family, neighbour)
• Not all the children of the family can afford going
to elementary school.
Assessment 3 April to June 2002 Return to the camp with the list of beneficiaries selected
from the previous questionnaire.
Validation of this targeting with the authorities and
the people.
New questionnaire in order to specify the activity to
develop with the family selected.
Distribution July-August 2002
(September for
Buru)
PDM October 2002
February 2003
(Buru)
During the distribution a Memorandum of Understanding
is signed between ACF and the families beneficiary.
Assess the good reception of the kit (quantity & quality)
Evaluate the impact of the distribution
NB: each step of the targeting is preceded by an explanation to be sure that
everybody understands the process
In order to monitor the impact of the distribution a Post Distribution Monitoring
(PDM) has been organised two months after the distribution. A representative sample
according to the number of kits distributed has been chosen.
MAIN RESULTS
General information about the distribution
43 villages have been targeted in 4 islands of the Maluku Province: Ambon,
Haruku, Seram and Buru. 100% of the villages are situated in rural area.
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