Selected assignments

Focus group discussions with 91 women across seven communities. Some activities had already started, so the report is written as an early-stage account rather than a strict pre-intervention baseline, and says so in the methodology.

Rather than working from a supplied list, the frame was assembled from the implementer's own training records so that participations and people could be told apart. A stratified sample of 198 women has been drawn, with 99 reserves held in advance against non-contact.

The design observes cookstoves in the home, counts tree survival on the woman's own land, opens savings group ledgers with the group, and checks water points, rather than relying on recall alone.

Verification is designed to run at baseline and again at later points in the programme, so the frame and the instruments are reusable rather than rebuilt each round.

Interviews were allocated across 26 districts in eight regions, concentrated in the Upper East and North East where most of the farmer population sat. We recruited, contracted, trained and supervised a field team of more than forty enumerators, deployed by district.

Supervision, back-checking and data review ran while teams were still in the field, so issues were raised and resolved during collection rather than left to surface at analysis.

District allocations, contact lists, transport and payment schedules were planned as part of the design, because in a survey this size they decide whether the sample is achieved.