Feed the Future (FTF) initiative in Ghana is a collaborative effort that supports country-owned processes and plans for improving food security and nutrition, particularly in the northern part of the country. These datasets cover the interim survey that took place in 2015 and was designed as a follow-up to the baseline survey that happened from 2012 to 2013. The survey covered a range of indicators organized around four groups: (1) economic well-being; (2) women and children anthropometry; (3) hunger and diet diversity; and (4) women's empowerment. The survey design involved two stages in which enumeration areas were selected followed by households. Data was collected in a face-to-face fashion using well-designed questionnaires and other study materials.

Feed the Future (FTF) initiative in Ghana is a collaborative effort that supports country-owned processes and plans for improving food security and nutrition, particularly in the northern part of the country. These datasets cover the interim survey that took place in 2015 and was designed as a follow-up to the baseline survey that happened from 2012 to 2013. The survey covered a range of indicators organized around four groups: (1) economic well-being; (2) women and children anthropometry; (3) hunger and diet diversity; and (4) women's empowerment. The survey design involved two stages in which enumeration areas were selected followed by households. Data was collected in a face-to-face fashion using well-designed questionnaires and other study materials.

One of the objectives of the Feed the Future (FTF) Innovation Lab for Food Security Policy (FSP) project is to foster credible, inclusive, transparent and sustainable policy processes at country level. As part of the monitoring and evaluation framework of FSP, the project has proposed two contextual qualitative indicators to assess and track the institutional architecture and quality of policy processes on agriculture and food security in FTF countries where the project has major country level activities. Tanzania is one of the countries where the FSP project has such activities. This dataset represents a survey conducted in 2019 to assess and monitor: 1) the quality of agriculture and food security policy processes in Tanzania, and 2) quality of the institutional architecture for agriculture and food security policy processes, as measured by stakeholder evaluation survey to capture the level of satisfaction and confidence. This is a follow up survey to a similar survey conducted in 2016 to better understand any changes over the past three years.

Dataset file can be found in the metadata below under "Attachments". Feed the Future’s Africa Lead II project partnered with The Mediae Company, a Kenya-based media education company, to develop a pilot season of Africa’s first agriculture-focused reality TV program: Don’t Lose the Plot (DLTP). Targeting youth in Kenya and Tanzania, the show aired in Kenya and Tanzania between May and July 2017. The program’s objectives were to encourage youth to consider farming as a lucrative career choice, provide information on how to start agribusinesses, and share useful agronomic information. Africa Lead commissioned Kantar Public East Africa to evaluate the impact of DLTP on knowledge, attitudes, and behavior, or intention to change behavior, related to farming and agribusiness practices. This data asset includes quantitative data collected through a cross-sectional household survey in Kenya and Tanzania. Data collection took place between August and December 2017 and targeted both viewers and non-viewers of DLTP aged 18 to 35 years. A total sample of 3,737 target individuals were interviewed in Kenya, including 406 verified viewers. In Tanzania, 3,383 target individuals were interviewed, including 527 verified viewers.

Feed the Future seeks to reduce poverty and undernutrition in 19 developing countries including Kenya by focusing on accelerating growth of the agricultural sector, addressing root causes of undernutrition, and reducing gender inequality. This dataset (n=3,662, vars=15) contain data from sub-Module E5 regarding non-food items that may or may not have been purchased (e.g., construction items such as wood poles and thatching grass). Each household with data for these construction items over the past 12 months has multiple records (for the two construction items in sub-Module E5). (3,662 records divided by 2 construction items = 1,831 Module E households with sub-Module E5 construction data.)

The purpose of this study is to evaluate the impact that the Feed the Future Nutrition-led Agriculture Project for Food Security in Senegal (known as "Yaajeende") has had on reducing malnutrition and poverty in its intervention area. This report details the findings, conclusions and recommendations of a mixed-methods quasi-experimental final impact evaluation (FIE) of the United States Agency for International Development’s (USAID) $50 million, seven-year Feed the Future Nutrition-Led Agriculture Project for Food Security in Senegal, known as “Yaajeende.” The National Cooperative Business Association’s Cooperative League of the USA (NCBA CLUSA) implemented the project. To combat poverty and child malnutrition, Yaajeende sought to accelerate the participation of the very poor in rural economic growth and improve the four dimensions of food security: availability, access, utilization and stability. Yaajeende worked in 790 villages across 49 municipalities (“communes” in French) and nine departments in the Matam, Tambacounda, Kédougou and Kolda regions. The project’s implementation period was November 1, 2010, to September 30, 2017. The FIE aims to provide USAID with an evidence base on the impacts of the nutrition-led agriculture (NLA) approach that the project utilized on its key objectives, including reduced poverty and malnutrition. The findings are expected to provide accountability and learning value to USAID, including both the Senegal Mission and USAID/Feed the Future. Additional stakeholders include the Government of Senegal, implementing partners and other agencies, donors and practitioners active in nutrition, health, agriculture and integrated sectors.

The purpose of this study is to evaluate the impact that the Feed the Future Nutrition-led Agriculture Project for Food Security in Senegal (known as "Yaajeende") has had on reducing malnutrition and poverty in its intervention area. This report details the findings, conclusions and recommendations of a mixed-methods quasi-experimental final impact evaluation (FIE) of the United States Agency for International Development’s (USAID) $50 million, seven-year Feed the Future Nutrition-Led Agriculture Project for Food Security in Senegal, known as “Yaajeende.” The National Cooperative Business Association’s Cooperative League of the USA (NCBA CLUSA) implemented the project. To combat poverty and child malnutrition, Yaajeende sought to accelerate the participation of the very poor in rural economic growth and improve the four dimensions of food security: availability, access, utilization and stability. Yaajeende worked in 790 villages across 49 municipalities (“communes” in French) and nine departments in the Matam, Tambacounda, Kédougou and Kolda regions. The project’s implementation period was November 1, 2010, to September 30, 2017. The FIE aims to provide USAID with an evidence base on the impacts of the nutrition-led agriculture (NLA) approach that the project utilized on its key objectives, including reduced poverty and malnutrition. The findings are expected to provide accountability and learning value to USAID, including both the Senegal Mission and USAID/Feed the Future. Additional stakeholders include the Government of Senegal, implementing partners and other agencies, donors and practitioners active in nutrition, health, agriculture and integrated sectors.