Survey

A23.1 Small scale businesses in Kamwokya, Uganda

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We collaborate around small-scale businesses in Kamwokya, Kampala. The first phase was implemented in partnership with Creative arts and the second with a local SACCO and the team leader Anne xxx.

Creative Arts 256
Manager and Founder: Edward BUTIMBA
Implementing organization: Creative Arts 256 & Chusa foundation.
CREATIVE ARTS 256, Kisenyi II Kamwokya, Kampala Uganda. +256701175760/ +256782335858. Creativearts uganda@gmail.com
Partnership with Creative Arts during 2019-2021.

SACCO with Anna Vretto
Anna is from the Bukoto ghetto area in Kamwokya, Kampala. She is 38 years old and has a number or diplomas on different subjects. She saw a difficulty for unprivileged women in Uganda between the age of 20-40 to provide for themselves as single mums. Anna is member of a SACCO of 26 women.

Dates of field visits, PMP Reports & ActionTalks

  • Cecilia ÖMAN, 2019 PMP Creative Arts report (C-C.1)
  • Moses MURUNGI, 25 May 2020, field visit with Bernard OMONY (note taker)(C-MB.1)
  • Cecilia ÖMAN,6 June 2020, PMP Creative Arts report (C-C.2)
  • Moses, MURUNGI, 12 Dec 2020 Field visit (C-M.2)
  • ActionTalks, 6 July 2022 by PMP Anna Vretto (A-A.1)
 

Small-scale businesses in Kamwokya

Test_E parameters

Collected TestE parameters in meetings with PMPs and TPs
when developing and adjusting the survey manual and when performing the surveys.

Context

Creative Arts

SACCO with Anna Vretto

This programme takes place within Kamwokya and Kyebando. Kamwokya and Kyebando are slum areas within Kampala the capita of Uganda and are faced by many challenges. Kamwokya and Kyebando are densely populated and have an estimated population of 40.000 people. The majority of its inhabitants are children and youth and most of the families in these areas are poor and illiterate.

Most men in slums have dropped their responsibilities to look after their families, because of the tough economic situation, lack of employment, and rural urban migration. We face family drop out, domestic violence, early sex marriage and polygamy which leads to single mothers. Many children do not get a chance to go to school. And for those that are lucky to go to school many drop out. Although these issues make life challenging and affect all, it is worse with the adolescent girls as so many of them resort to prostitution, which in addition leads to unwanted pregnancies, acquisition of HIV/AIDS and eventually death.

 

A-A.1 Anna is from the Bukoto ghetto area in Kamwokya, Kampala. She is 38 years old and has a number or diplomas on different subjects. She saw a difficulty for unprivileged women in Uganda between the age of 20-40 to provide for themselves as single mums. Anna is member of a SACCO of 26 women and her proposal to Action10HR&S is to help scaling the capital of the SACCO. Anna’s idea is to lend money to women’s small businesses. In the SACCO everyone contributes with 1,000 Uganda Shilling (EUR 0,3) per day and the loan is 20,000 Uganda Shilling (EUR 5).

Her business proposal: Lend 10 million Ugandan Schillings (EUR 2,600).

Ambitions

Creative Arts

SACCO with Anna Vretto

Ambitions of the Programme manager partner (PMP)

Supporting single mothers and adolescent girls living in the slum. Objectives: Empowerment, boost small scale business, fight poverty.

  • Creative Arts 256 are organizing financial literacy workshops, seminars, open discussions, talk shows, training of trainers, research on issues that affect the single mothers and adolescent girls, counselling and guidance.
    Creative Arts 256 addresses: financial knowledge, saving culture, small business management, advocate for Child-to-Parent communication within families to avoid early pregnancies and school dropout, equip the young girls with credible information and tools that will help them lead successful lives.
  • Creative Arts 256 offers links to HIV prevention, treatment and care service providers.

Target partners

Target group: Single parents  and adolescent  girls who have dropped out from school. The beneficiaries are largely women who are single mothers who need to earn more income and look after their families. In addition, the programme provides funds to train girl youths with vocational skills that can help provide them with incomes and desist/prevent them from engaging in prostitution and drug abuse.

 

Ambitions of the Programme manager partner (PMP)

A-A.1 Anna is member of a SACCO of 26 women and her proposal to Action10HR&S is to help scaling the capital of the SACCO. Anna’s idea is to lend money to women’s small businesses. In the SACCO everyone contributes with 1,000 Uganda Shilling (EUR 0,3) per day and the loan is 20,000 Uganda Shilling (EUR 5).

Her business proposal: Lend 10 million Ugandan Schillings (EUR 2,600).

Ambition of HR&S Uganda


Ambition of HR&S Uganda

We see  potential customers in on-going well functioning businesses in Kamwokya that would benefit from scaling. A customer survey is required. The customers will report to Branch Uganda and not to Creative Arts. We will have a strong accountability management programme.

 “Early adopters” What does the ideal customer who buys first look like? One social entrepreneur who is able to pay 10% interest and RISE Centre fee while eventually having an impact and develop a profitable business.

Assessment of PMP intrinsic motivation

HR&S never assessed the intrinsic motivation of Creative Arts.

Assessment of PMP intrinsic motivation

xx

Outcome challenges

Creative Arts

SACCO with Anna Vretto

Defined by PMP

C-C.1 The challenges associated with running business in our area is the high cost of materials and high cost of renting an office or a venue.

Defined by Target Partners

C-MB.1
COVID-19 adds challenges to our partners.

  • The members of our team in Uganda had a consensus that COVID-19 caught everyone un-aware and as a result crippled most of the businesses in the program.
  • Businesses/enterprises are stuck due to reduced numbers of customers and working hours. As a result, a number of members have not been able to pay back what is owed.
  • The members have agreed that some businesses will not be able to operate as profitably as they have been before. As a result, members have suggested that it is wise to think of shifting business lines/types to be able to be competitive and keep the programme running. However the challenge to this is that starting a new business without any experience in that business is in itself worrying. Group leaders will visit individual members to assess their opinions on the new business idea. In the same vain, the group leaders will visit members before 2nd June 2020 for the way forward.
  • The members also suggested that it’s the responsibility of the group leaders to meet the members to find out the individual challenges and find solutions to the challenges.
  • The meeting agreed that members should start planning now about the kind of businesses and ventures that would be profitable for them in this new COVID-19 era. People should not wait.
  • Members suggested that the period for payment should be adjusted to more than one month. However, others suggested that its better and easier to pay in small instalments in shorter periods. There was nothing conclusive on this.
  • The suggestion of introducing new members in the program was rejected. It was agreed that it is better to first stabilize the current program before we can invite a new cohort.
  • Members also agreed that the program can open up a mobile money account to ease the collection of monies from members. Members can deposit the money they get anytime without having to wait for demands. Members also agreed that the running costs should be carried by the program not the members.

C-M.2 Edward claims that the women failed to honour their due dates of payment, and when he kept reminding them, they keep deferring him to a later date which he says was frustrating. He also worries that it is like he had created for himself enemies with these women. Some would even hide on the due dates. Edward stresses that the demographics of the choice of the group we are working with (especially income-wise) dictate that they will fail to pay in the long run. He attributes this to the fact that these women will not fail to use the business money in case there is a problem to solve at home, say rent arrears or a sick child, or school fees dues.

Edward is not confident about the success of this or a similar programme in a similar social setting. He says he is not confident of getting another loan because of not only the obligation from the loan provider who insists the money must be paid back but also from his community where he says he has made enemies because of the same. He says he is not comfortable with doing something that will be divisive between his organization and the community. He, therefore, thinks that the single mothers’ small business programme is not viable in these circumstances, but also may not rhyme perfectly with the objectives of HR&S.

Defined by PMP.

  • xxx

Defined by HR&S Branch Uganda

C-M.2 In my opinion (Moses), there was no thorough financial management sensitization for the women at the time of acquiring the funds, for example, there was no culture of saving, and/or ability to separate profits from the business, from the operating capital. In addition, there was a lack of a thorough customer survey to guide in choosing the people that would guarantee a high proportion of payment back. There is a need for a more consultative survey before taking the loan. It seems they took advantage of free money (without serious consequences i.e. collateral security).

Lesson learned & informed decision


Defined by HR&S Branch Uganda

  • x

Defined by HR&S HQ

Lesson learned & informed decision

Reflection Jul 2022.  We did not follow ROPE in actual practice, outcome challenges was not defined and also not joint activities to address the outcome challenges. No progress markers and no mile-stones. This was the reason for failure. This will not be repeated in Uganda.

Progress markers

Creative Arts

SACCO with Anna Vretto

Progress Markers defined

  • Defined by PMP.
  • Defined by Branch.
  • Defined by HQ
    • Income to balance (or exceed) costs.

Progress Markers defined

  • Defined by PMP.

    • xx

  • Defined by Branch.
  • Defined by HQ
    • Income to balance (or exceed) costs.

Activities

Creative Arts

SACCO with Anna Vretto

C-C.1 The programme was set up to provide additional capital funds to small business owners in Kamwokya and Kyebando.

The capital fund is lent to the businesses with a 10% interest in a specified period. Businesses that return all money and interest can request an increase in capital borrowed. This is done until the business is able to self sustain and consistently earn the required income.

x

HR&S Branch Uganda

 

HR&S Branch Uganda & HQ

x

Milestones

Creative Arts

SACCO with Anna Vretto

Branch Kenya & HQ together

x

Branch Kenya & HQ together

x

Business model

Creative Arts

SACCO with Anna Vretto

  1. x

x

Business plan

Uganda Shilling

Creative Arts

SACCO with Anna Vretto

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Testimony PMP “On 24/2/2020 at 11:00am we invited parents to the Creative Arts office to receive their money to boost their home businesses, we managed to give 100,000 to 18 members and 200,000 to 2 members accordingly, we proposed this to be returned in 3 month with a 10% interest.
Comment by HR&S: Total UGX 2 200 000, thus  € 525  (OANDA, June 2020).

We communicated one week free for preparation from 25-29 than program start on 1st March 2020, during March the program was running smoothly and 5.000-10.000 was being reported on the agreed day of collection. Unfortunately in the same month we were stormed by Covid 19 which disorganized the project, this brought about lockdown so we put a hold  on the project till conditions  normalize,

Although during the lockdown we managed to get 3 heroes  who completed and fulfilled their  promise and later we got one more, but all these took 100,000.

22/5/2020  Our heroes have already been given funds for the second time and their businesses are prospering.

We are suggesting giving out funds again to our members on 13 June to restart the programme since all have been affected during the pandemic and it’s not going to end so soon, members have no money to return back because their businesses are so down to support their families and to run the program though it will not be declared as free will deliberately fail to fulfil their promises.”

Expenses

  • Business workshop on 22/2/2020 to equip knowledge to single parents
    • Hiring venue 150,000
    • Chairs 30,000
    • Pa system 100,000
    • Lunch and refreshments @5000 a plate= 150,000
    • TOTAL 430,000 (EUR 110)
  • Administration costs
    • Allowence for six officals each@ 80,000 per month=2,880,000
      (EUR  750)
      Butimba Edward, Kayondo Joseph, Sanyu Rose, Omonyi Bernard, Balingi Milly and Nagalye Fatuma
  • Office
    •  lent from march-august each month @200000=1,200,000 (EUR 310)

TOTAL EUR 1170

Expected Income per year

  • 10 % of EUR 525 = 52,5

TOTAL  EUR 52,5

Comment HR&S

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Input

Creative Arts

SACCO with Anna Vretto

Meetings with Moses

1st loan by ActionInvest, Uganda shilling

C-M.2 In early 2020, there was an agreement between Cecilia Öman (CEO HR&S Sweden) and Edward Butimba (Director of Creative Arts 256) for the transfer of € 2,000 about UGX 7,000,000. This was meant as a loan with 10 % annual interest to Creative Arts that could be accessed by single mothers and adolescent girls for the sole purpose of supporting their small businesses. These businesses included largely small stalls of vegetables among others.

Edward Butimba was in charge of identifying suitable persons to benefit from these loans and the collection of payments. He selected the first batch of 20 out of 40 candidates. There was a seminar to inform the women about how the programme works. The women were informed that these are soft loans to be paid with an interest of 10% in a period of 3 months and that if one successfully pays back the loan, she would be eligible for acquiring a higher amount.

In mid-March 2020, the COVID19 restrictions on businesses and the movement of people severely hampered the programme. Some loan takers defaulted because they used the money for personal issues, not for the businesses as it was planned.

A resolution was taken in June 2020 to try and revamp the programme by giving out more loans to the business owners. Priority was for the ladies that were showing promise in payment. There was a consensus that the women be proactive and diversify their businesses to areas that can generate income even during the COVID19 pandemic. We also agreed that the women be proactive and pay back their monies via mobile money and that Edward did not have to keep pestering them on paying, to which they agreed.

Challenges Some women paid back but most defaulted on their payments. Edward claims that the women failed to honour their due dates of payment, and when he kept reminding them, they keep deferring him to a later date which he says was frustrating. He also worries that it is like he had created for himself enemies with these women. Some would even hide on the due dates. Edward stresses that the demographics of the choice of the group we are working with (especially income-wise) dictate that they will fail to pay in the long run. He attributes this to the fact that these women will not fail to use the business money in case there is a problem to solve at home, say rent arrears or a sick child, or school fees dues.

In my opinion (Moses), there was no thorough financial management sensitization for the women at the time of acquiring the funds, for example, there was no culture of saving, and/or ability to separate profits from the business, from the operating capital. In addition, there was a lack of a thorough customer survey to guide in choosing the people that would guarantee a high proportion of payment back. There is a need for a more consultative survey before taking the loan. It seems they took advantage of free money (without serious consequences i.e. collateral security).

Edward is not confident about the success of this or a similar programme in a similar social setting. He says he is not confident of getting another loan because of not only the obligation from the loan provider who insists the money must be paid back but also from his community where he says he has made enemies because of the same. He says he is not comfortable with doing something that will be divisive between his organization and the community. He, therefore, thinks that the single mothers’ small business programme is not viable in these circumstances, but also may not rhyme perfectly with the objectives of HR&S.

 

TOTAL x (EUR x)

Uganda shilling

2nd loan by ActionInvest

TOTAL x (EUR x)

x

Uganda shilling
1st loan by ActionInvest

TOTAL x

 

Outcome

Creative Arts

SACCO with Anna Vretto

C-C.2 The  first  meeting  was held on  15/2/2020 basically  it was  about introduction of members  to the  project, implementing  organization, the  supporting  organization, the  objectives  of the project. We out lined the requirements for one to be a member and also were told that this fund is not from government or any political contestant. We requested to visit their existing home businesses, ask for money they will be able to return back, use money for what they asked it for and to make groups and elect leaders.

On 22/2/2020 we organized a business management workshop that was headed by Mr. MUSTAFA, after the workshop we also grouped parents in groups of 5 by themselves chose their leader, this was followed by lunch and refreshments.

On 24/2/2020 at 11:00am we invited parents to the Creative Arts office to receive their money to boost their home businesses, we managed to give 100000 to 18 members and 200000 to 2 members accordingly, we proposed this to be returned in 3 month with a 10% interest. Comment by HR&S: Total UGX 2 200 000, thus  € 525  (OANDA, June 2020). We communicated one week free for preparation from 25-29 than program start on 1st march2020, during March the program was running smoothly and 5000-10000 was being reported on the agreed day of collection. Unfortunately in the same month we were stormed by covid 19 which disorganized the project, this brought about lockdown so we put a hold  on the project till conditions  normalize ,although during the lockdown we managed to get  3  heroes  who completed and fulfilled their  promise and later we got one more  but all these took 100000.

On 18th 18/4/2020 we managed to move around to visit members though we were not allowed to move out and visit any one, we reached out 10 members to share how they are being affected by the situation, the challenges they were facing, how the fund has helped them despite the pandemic and to know if they were willing to continue with the project.

On 22/5/2020 we had a meeting at creative arts office joined by Mr. Moses plus 2 parents and shared about the way forward, covid challenges, when to give money again, who to give, what to do for those who failed to return completely ,who brought same, can we get new members or not, how to ease the collection. 

We are suggesting giving out funds again to our members on 13 June to restart the programme since all have been affected during the pandemic and it’s not going to end so soon, members have no money to return back because their businesses are so down to support their families and to run the program though it will not be declared as free will deliberately fail to fulfil their promises. Our heroes have already been given funds for the second time and their businesses are prospering.

C-M.2 Our partner formally ended his partnership with HR&S after we established that it was partly due to his actions, to dishonour our agreements about running of the salon, by turning it into a school that resulted in the failure of the project. This he did without any communication and he was dishonest in his reporting.

Lesson learned & Informed decision

It is an unwise to attempt to offer solutions to a person in need. It is better for the solutions to come from the person themselves. It is better to support individuals who have business experience, who have started and are trying to make a business grow. These people have an internal motivation to ensure success of their enterprise and therefore appreciate value for money. Such people are more likely to be responsible than those who are not actively engaged in a business. They are also not likely to make business mistakes usually made in startups for example. It is better for HR&S to collaborate more with organizations who have no history of working with the Aid industry. We can form a parallel narrative.

Impact

Chusa School of beauty

RISE salon, Following on  Chusa School of Beauty

Respondents

The respondents are identified and presented with: names, title, telephone numbers, level of education, home location, and family status. Also GDPR consent is collected if the respondent’s agree.

Chusa School of beauty

RISE salon, Following on  Chusa School of Beauty

This survey will be used to evaluate the impact of the Chusa School of Beauty.

  • We will employ random sampling in selecting a sample of respondents from the population.
  • The control will be a group of randomly selected persons within Kibera and outside Kibera.
  1. PMP
    • Team-leader: Frederic BUTIMBA
    • Management team: xxx
  2. Target Partners
    • Individuals: Each student of Chusa School of Beauty, 40 ladies
    • Focus groups: If possible to collect and discuss with the girls together. Should have been done during the period of the school, but was not.
  3. Customers to Target Partners
    • Customers to the students.
  4. Other stakeholders, such as:
    • Family members.
    • Other.

RESPONDENT INFORMATION

No.

Question

Responses

A1

Enumerator Name

 

A2

Respondent’s name

 

A3

Respondent phone number

 

A4

Respondent Gender

               Male                     Female

A5

Age of respondent

1=18-24 yrs, 2=25-35 yrs, 3=36-55 yrs, 4= > 56 yrs

A6

Respondent  position

1= Owner

2= Employee

3= Relative to owner

4= other specify

A5

Region{ must be from Nairobi county}

1=Kibera

2= Ngong’

3= Dagorete

Set-up

Set-up

  1. Individual interviews, specific and open-ended, with
    • The PMP.
    • Management team members.
    • Each loan-taker present.
    • Family members present.
  2. Focal group interviews, with
    • Management team and PMP together.
    • All loan-takers of the village, who are present,  together.
  3. Collect testimonies, from a number of persons randomly chosen.
  4. Take photos.
  5. Record videos.
  6. Record interviews.

  7. Take notes in a dedicated notebook about everything that happens.

Chusa School of beauty

RISE salon, Following on  Chusa School of Beauty

Both primary and secondary sources of data collection will be used. Primary data will include semi-structured questionnaires, testimonies, and focus group discussions, while secondary data will involve written records also at the national and international levels.  The questions will have both open and closed-ended questions. The validity of the questionnaires will be determined by HR&S Sweden. Consent to collect data will be sought from the managing director of Dolas creation and the survey participants.

For purposes of statistical measurement, the typography of progress markers from the tailoring project was generated prior to the start of the project. This generated three types of information. These are:
1. Quantitative – These will be acquired from three different sources;  interviews, testimonies and focus group discussions, with people in charge (plus review of book accounts), observation by interviewers, interview with participants. The indicators used here will include the number of business start-ups, investment level, employees’ income level, pieces of training attended, modern tailoring machines acquired, number of new employees contracted to work for Dolas creation.
2. Qualitative – Qualitative information will be obtained through interviews, testimonies, and focus group discussions, with people in charge and participants.  The sources of information will be social harmony at home, contribution to family, financial independence.
3. Financial- These will be obtained through interviews with the person in charge, direct examination of accounting books, and personal interviews with employees. This includes; total sales in cash, credit sales value, stock in/out, loans to employees (if any), and cash in the bank account (Ksh). 

Consent Form

Thank you for agreeing to speak with me today. My name is………………. and I am conducting a data collection survey on behalf of HR&S. Human Rights & Science has been partnering with Dolas creation enterprise in this area for the last one & a half years.
The information you give us will be used by the project to improve our understanding of the projects and people/community that we serve. HR&S shall keep any information that we collect confidential and shall store data securely. If we share responses, they will be anonymous. Meaning no one will know which responses and comments came from you. HR&s may also share anonymous results to contribute to improving other projects elsewhere and in the future. HR&S may use anonymous results in future publications, reports, and/or presentations.
There will be no immediate benefits for you, but by taking part in this activity you may find an indirect benefit in knowing you have participated in an important piece of research, and that the information gathered may be used to improve the design and delivery of HR&S’s work. You will not receive money or reward of any kind if you agree to take part.
Your participation is completely voluntary, and you have the right to not participate, or to stop participating at any point of this process. If you do not wish to participate, or if you wish to stop at any time, this is acceptable and there are no negative consequences to doing so.
In case you agree, we would like to take photos and/or videos, and post them on our website, and also if you agree on social media. The propose is the strengthen HR&S and our programmes by increased visibility and transparency. If you agree we jointly select each specific photo/video.

Certificate of Consent (participant)
I have read the above information, or it has been read to me. I have had the opportunity to ask questions about it, and any questions I have asked and have been answered to my satisfaction. I consent voluntarily to be a participant in this exercise.

Print Name of Participant

{at least forename and surname}

Signature of Participant

 

DD/MM/YYY

 

Micro data Survey questions

Social impact

 

Sustainable social impact refers to reaching the social good ambitions in a sustainable manner.

Measure twice a year since the start of the programme.

Social Good _ Direct Impact

Respondent: PMP

  • Compilation of the products that we offer:
    1. Business loans;
      Number of loans, size of loans, total capital. 
    2. Other
  • Compilation of the services that we offer:
    1. Weekly visits to collect refunds, coach and address challenges.
      1. type of coaching
      2. type of challenges
    2. Other
  • Number of Target partner business owners: xxx
  • PMP business generate profit.
    • Size of profit: xxx

Respondent: Target Partners

  • Compilation of the products that our Target Partners offer to their customers: xxx
    • Number of customer per product: xxx
  • Compilation of the services that our Target Partners offer to their customers: xxx
    • Number of customers per service: xxx
  • Target partner business owners generate profit.
    • Size of profit per TP: xxx

Respondent: Customers (customer survey)

  • Are customers content with products?

  • Are customers content with services?

Social Good _ Indirect Impact

Respondent: Target Partners & families.

  • Children well-being
    Children of the women who manages HR&S small-scale businesses.
    • Number of meals per day increased.
      From one to two or three.
      • Number of children: xxx
    • Education
      Tuition fee paid and school attendance made possible.
      • Number of children: xxx
  • Women well-being
    • The status of the women in the families has improved as the contribute with income.

Respondent: Customers (customer survey)

xxx

Institutional capacity

Respondent: PMP

Accounting

  • Bookkeeping of international standards; compiling all receipts and invoices, perform bank reconciliation.
  • Annual auditing.
  • Respond to management reports from the auditor.

 

  • Who is in charge of the bookkeeping?
  • Who is doing the auditing?
  • What do the management reports look like?
  • Can we please see the books?

Project management

  • Are the number of Target Partners included, as expected? xxx.
  • Does the target partners deliver as expected? xxx.
  • Do you have regular meetings with the management team, if so, how often? xxx.
    • Do you take notes which are  included in the annual report?xxx.

Transparency & Efficiency

  • Communication between PMP and HR&S.
    • Maybe monthly reflections from PMP on WhatsApp. xxx.
  • Information from target partners on their satisfaction, needs, expectations. xxx.
    • To be written down and shared.
  • Share notes from the local management meetings. xxx.

Annual report

Due 15 February.

Target partner services

Ensure continuous feed-back from Target Partners. Information about their satisfaction, needs, expectations, xxx. Specially ask about their views on the ethics of the programme.

TP training, coaching & team building

  1. Training sessions: xxx
  2. Coaching sessions: xxx
  3. HR&S / Action10 T-shirts “women themselves have submitted a complaint, that of offering them HR&S/Action10 t-shirts that they will often wear at each meeting.”

Financial sustainability

Sustainable economy is when income, without donations, sustainably exceeds costs.

  1. When can a sustainable economy be expected ?
  2. What is the size of the required capital?
  3. Compile sources and levels of income?
  4. Compile sources and levels of expenses?

Sustainable business mind-set

  • ?

Does the income exceed the expenses?

  • No, lack of funds to cover the cost for PPM’s transportation (June 2022).

Survey team & visit

PMP comment: Wednesdays, market day, are the only days suitable for meeting women and following up with them.

Who

  1. The survey team consist of: Renaud, Elisabeth, Milohum, Yawo. 
  2. The team leader is: Renaud
  3. Date of the next visit: The visits are made on Wednesdays, the market day. xxx

When

  1. Dates of coming visits:

Where

  1. Location of the visits:

How

  1. Visit arrangements: Offer snacks to focus group discussions.
  2. Travel arrangements:
  3. Travel costs:
  4. The sources for covering travel costs are:

Survey Team Preparations

Ensure the team has access to the tools required:

  • Written copy of the survey manual.
  • Camera; photos and videos.
  • Recorder.
  • Notebooks and pens.
  • Transportation means.
  • Food and water.

Divide areas of responsibility between team-members. Ensure that  each team member is clear about and comfortable with their own assignment as well as the team assignment.

The team assignments

  1. Making individual interviews.
    • Specific questions.
    • Open ended questions.
  2. Collect data from focal group discussions.
  3. Collect testimonies.
  4. Taking photos.
  5. Record videos.
  6. Record interviews.

  7. Taking notes in a dedicated notebook about everything that happens.

Preparing for the analysis of the data

  • Control
    The control is the base-line data, macro-data and the conditions in specific villages that are selected to join the programme, prior to mentioning about the programme.
  • Randomization
    Randomization among respondents is created by not announcing the survey date, and asking everyone who are present that day.
  • Statistical assessment method
    • Quantitative: ANOVA. Thus we need as much data as possible.
    • Qualitative: Simple compilation of statements.
  • Contribution tracing. Identifying other actors in the village, what do they contribute with, how many are involved and how do they benefit. Consider to collaborate with other actors.
  • Ethics. Normal ethics plus asking the respondents about their views on ethics.

Compilation of Outcome data

Outcome

  • Yawo informed about that a cooperative bank came to propose a loan to some people in the village, but the offer by Action10, was the best (Millohum 2021).
  • Mr. Yawo gave me a feedback. In his message, he instructs me to tell you that the children of all the beneficiaries have organized themselves into a delegation to come and tell him to thank you. They say that through your support, they manage to eat at least twice a day, through the small activities their mothers do, they manage to pay their school fees (Renaud 2022).
  • In addition, the women themselves have submitted a complaint, that of offering them HR&S/Action10 t-shirts that they will often wear at each meeting. (Renaud 2022).

Progress marker scoring

  • Number of women involved
    • More than fifty new women have come to benefit from this financing – June 2022
  • Size of loan
    • Instead of giving 30,000 to women to start their activities, he would like it to be 40,000 – June 2022.

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