Overall Momentum assessed the effectiveness of PPAF’s poverty reduction interventions, using a mixed-methods approach of primary and secondary data collection and analysis. A comprehensive evaluation framework for gauging the project and its progress was prepared. Experts identified and documented key learnings from the poverty reduction evaluation.
Review of the PPAF study over the period 2007 to 2010 implemented a Social Safety Net – Targeting Ultra Poor (SSN-TUP) Program. Under the program, five partner organizations were requested to identify ultra-poor households in selected communities. Out of the total number of households identified as ultra-poor in these selected Sindh Coastal Areas, half were targeted under the program. This allowed the other half to serve as a ready control group. Targeted households were provided productive assets, the skills to utilize these, a subsistence allowance, access to health services, and opportunities to save. The program operated under the BRAC “Graduation” Model that hypothesized that these interventions would enable ultra-poor households to “graduate” out of poverty. The assessment of the SSN-TUP program, that is the subject of this report, was initiated in January of 2012, i.e. 1.5 to 2 years after the close of the program. The methodology involves comparing a data from sample of beneficiaries to a sample of non-beneficiaries collected through a specially designed survey.