Stage 1

Diagnosis (Obtaining and analysing baseline information)

Step #

Details

Yes

No

Notes

1

Study locations/villages

Have you collected details of the study locations/villages?
Including

1. types of ecosystem present
2. nature of the cropping system including land use patterns

coverage of animal husbandry

1. fisheries and other allied agricultural enterprises
2. information on village livelihood patterns

2

Household livelihood profiles

Have you collected details of household livelihood profiles?
Including

1. What livelihoods are households engaged in?
2. What is the food security status?

3

Women’s livelihood profiles

Have you collected details about women’s livelihood profiles?
Including

1. Do women earn a living?
2. What do they do?
3. What constrains do women face in undertaking livelihood activities?

4

Women’s aspirations

Have you identified women’s aspirations?
Including

1. How do women want to improve their livelihoods?
2. What ideas do they have?

5

Support and service network

Have you collected information and details of support service networks available?
Including

1. Electricity, transport, credit, marketing, communications
2. Do you have details of organisations involved in the agricultural sector?

Including:

1. Govt departments
2. Research and training orgs
3. NGOs
4. Financial institutions
5. Traders

6

Implications for Programme Design

Have you conducted an overview of all the information collected?
What are the possibilities?
What are the major constraints?
How do possibilities meet with aspirations?
What is doable?
What is not possible?
What is not in demand?

Stage 2

Identification and Selection of Interventions

Step #

Details

Yes

No

Notes

 7

Feasibility study of women’s aspirations

Have you conducted an assessment of the strengths and weaknesses of the activities identified?
Have you identified the activities that have the most potential to take forward?

8

Identification of intervention with back-up support

Have you identified the support services needed to underpin the activities identified in Step 7?
Have you identified the type of support that can be offered by organisations?

Stage 3

Programme Design

Step #

Details

Yes

No

Notes

9

Have you conducted a stakeholder workshop to address issues of convergence?

10

Have you identified institutional arrangements for the project?

11

Have you conducted a social analysis/assessment of the programme?

12

Have you conducted a gender analysis?