Impact Evaluation for Agriculture and Health Activities

This award is a component of the Mission's agriculture/Feed the Future strategy. Rigorous impact evaluation is an important part of USAID's Feed the Future Initiative.

Through this PIO grant, The International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) will: 1) comprehensively evaluate the impact of USAID/Egypt's food security and nutrition education activity interventions in Egypt from 2015 to 2019; and, 2) strengthen M&E and policy analysis capacity within the Ministry of Agriculture and Land Reclamation.

Ultimately, this activity will document the activities that have the largest impact on poverty reduction and improving nutrition.

The funds for this year will be used for:-Analysis of the Women's Empowerment in Agriculture Index (WEAI) mid-term results.

This will include technical assistance to the implementer of FAS: Phase 1 to conduct the survey.-Provide recommendations about the influence of interventions on female empowerment.-Ongoing data collection for impact evaluation in ZOI. . Technical assistance to the implementers so that their intervention areas do not compromise the experimental design.