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Rural Development and Poverty - District Poverty Iniatives -
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Andhra Pradesh District Poverty Initiatives Project
(APDPIP) : Baseline Survey Report in Sustainable Livelihood Framework |
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| Project Co-ordinator |
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S.Mahendra Dev |
| Project Team |
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S. Galab, M. Gopinath Reddy, K.S.Reddy, C.Ravi, K.S.Babu and
G.K.Mitra |
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| Sponsored by |
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WORLD BANK |
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Link
to: http://www.velugu.org |
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The Andhra Pradesh District Poverty Initiatives Project (APDPIP) is being implemented in six districts, viz., Adilabad, Mahaboobnagar, Anantapur, Chittoor, Srikakulam and Vizianagaram of Andhra Pradesh. It aims to alleviate poverty in all its forms, including child labour, through establishing strong and vibrant poor people's institutions- Self Help Groups to tackle the conditioning factors that are perpetuating poverty. Further, it supports demand-driven economic projects to increase and consolidate economic gains on sustainable basis. Evaluation systems of the impact of APDPIP have been established through a Baseline Survey (BLS) and two follow-up surveys - one in the middle and the other at the end of the implementation of APDPIP. |
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The Baseline Survey for the APDPIP is undertaken as a part of the attempt to evaluate the impact of APDPIP. The benchmark parameters to assess the impact of the APDPIP have been arrived at using Logframe Approach (LFA). But, these parameters have been interpreted in Sustainable Livelihood Framework (SLF) to identify an intervention strategy for alleviating poverty in all its forms, besides assessing poverty status and conditioning factors that are perpetuating poverty.
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Double difference method is adopted to assess the impact of DPIP. Eligible poor who have not participated in the programme is chosen as the closest comparison groups. Three-stage stratified-simple random sampling method is adopted. Mandals, villages/ habitations and households are selected in the first, second and third stages, respectively. Different typologies are imposed for selected mandals. The selected mandals in three districts are 39 (30 programme and 9 control). 138 villages and 2760 households from the sample villages are selected randomly. 276 SHGs - two from each sample village - are selected randomly. 12 village organizations (VOs) and 3 Mandal Mahila Samakhyas (MMSs) of the South Asian Poverty Alleviation Programme (SAPAP) are selected for the sample villages and mandals from
Anantapur.
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The major findings of the baseline survey are: The poorest of the poor and the poor, especially Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes, possess lower levels of livelihood capitals - human, natural, financial, and physical - compared to the other socio-economic groups - this has reinforced the established fact; Linkage among five capitals and different elements of each capital are not strong at the lower levels of these capitals - the case of Scheduled Castes (SCs) and Scheduled Tribes (STs) vis-à-vis Backward Castes (BCs) and Other Castes (OCs) provides evidence to this; DPIP should address issues relating to livelihoods and removing the conditioning factors of livelihoods of poor by forging alliances with non-poor organizations, State and Corporate and NGO sector to alleviate poverty in all its forms. |
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