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Figure T15: “Before and After” Project Scoring of Food Sources
Food Source (Indicator) Counters (Score)
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Garden
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Wild Food
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Food Aid
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Source: Reproduced with permission from Catley, A., Burns, J., Abebe, D. and Suji, O. (2008). Participatory
Impact Assessment: A guide for practitioners. Feinstein International Center, Medford
A good way of capturing relative change, and which does not involve asking sensitive questions
about income or harvest levels, herd size, milk production, etc., is by using a nominal baseline to
represent a quantity of a given indicator or variable at a certain point in time. The example
presented in Box T4 shows how this method can be used to assess changes in income for a project
designed to achieve household income benefits. Scoring against a nominal baseline is particularly
useful for estimating changes in quantitative indicators like income, livestock numbers, and crop
yields. The Quantitative Participatory Assessment (QPA) method, presented in Section T6.3, uses a
similar approach.
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