Rural Road Upgrading - An Impact Evaluation

This survey will run over at least 5 years assesses the impact of the upgrading of rural roads in Tanzania. EDI designed the evaluation strategy and implemented the fieldwork. Our teams visited around 4,200 households in 280 communities across mainland Tanzania and Zanzibar as part of a baseline survey conducted prior to the start of the construction work. This survey is undertaken on behalf of the Millenium Challenge Account Tanzania (MCA-T) part of the Millenium Challenge Corporation (MCC). The MCC website provides more information on the evaluation and as well as a public release dataset.

Community Based Assistance to Vulnerable Groups - A Randomised Impact Evaluation

This 3 year panel survey, commissioned to EDI by the World Bank and TASAF, follows a treatment and comparison groups of vulnerable people, who participate in a community driven development project. Impacts will be identified through the staggered introduction of the project in 50 of the 100 sampled communities. This project involves a complicated listing exercise in which a short questionnaire is administered to everyone in the village (around 50,000 households in total) to assess the targetting efficiency of the programme as well as to stratify the sample within the village and oversample vulnerable groups. Listing and household data are captured electronically on CWEST.

Conditional Cash Transfers - A Randomised Impact Evaluation

This longitudinal survey commissioned to EDI by the Government of Tanzania evaluates a pilot of a conditional cash transfer programme of the Government of Tanzania. Cash transfers will be disbursed to households assessed vulnerable by both the community and a survey instrument administered to all households in the village. Eligible (vulnerable) households need to abide by certain conditions, such as children's school and clinic attendance in order to remain in the transfer programme. The impacts are identified by a staggered introduction of the programme in 40 out of the 80 villages. The outcome of this project will be provide a basis for the government to decide whether or not to scale this programme up to national level. The study is commissioned by TASAF and supported by the World Bank's Evaluation Team.