Income-Generating Activities - Action Against Hunger

Field handbook • Scientific and Technical Department
552 families, which represent 2,534 persons, have been the benefited of 349 kits
distributed.
Out of them 31% are Returnees and 69% are IDPs. 70% of the beneficiaries are
Christians while 30% are Moslems. This difference between communities is due to the
distribution in Buru Island which focused on villages highly affected by destruction
during the conflict. In Buru Island the most affected villages are Christian. Moreover
the kits in Buru Island have been identified as group kits benefiting more people.
According to the total number of kits distributed: 58% have been distributed to
Christians and 42% to Moslems. Out of 349 kits distributed, 311 are individual kits (89%
of the total) while 38 are group kits (11% of the total).
Type of IGA kits identified and main characteristics
21 different kits-activities have been identified with the families during the targeting
process.
• 5 kits-activities represent 84.8% of all the kits distributed: farming (36.7% of
the total), Cake Maker (24.9%), Fishing Individual (12%), Fishing Group (6%)
and Fried Cake (5.2%).
• Then the 4 most common kits-activities identified are Carpenter Individual (4%),
Carpenter Group (2.9%) followed by Selling Food (2.3%) and Processing Machine
(1.7%). These kits represent 10.9% of the total distributed
• An important number of small activities and services (12 kits) represent 4.3 %
of the total distribution.
Synthesis per type of kit
No
Activity
No.
of Kits
% of the total no.
of kits distributed
Type of kit
1 Farming 128 36.7% Individual
2 Cake Maker 87 24.9% Individual
3 Fishing Individual 42 12% Individual
4 Fishing Group 21 6% Group
5 Fried Cake 18 5.2% Individual
6 Carpenter Individual 14 4% Individual
7 Carpenter Group 10 2.9% Group
8 Selling Food 8 2.3% Individual
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