Concept note for Social Investment
Program Project (SIPP), Bangladesh
Team Members :
Md. Abdul Momen
Md. Golam Faruque
Md. Lutfor Rahman
MIM Zulfiqar
Dr. Erwin Bulte
Dr. Elliot Mghenyi
Objective of SIPP
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To improve the livelihoods, quality of life and
resilience to climate variability, natural hazards
and other shocks of the rural poor, especially
the left-out poor and vulnerable households.
Project description
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Project duration : 5-Years (June 2015)
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Project villages to be covered : 1500;
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Target group : Poor and Hardcore Poor (Identified
through PIP) and Unemployed Youth (from HCP and Poor)
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Target beneficiaries : 200,000 HHs
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Total project cost SIPP-2: US$ 115 million
Project description- Contd.
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Component A: Community and Livelihood
Development at village level
 Institutional development (e.g. Capacity building, Institutional
set-up, grant to vulnerable, loan to youth for skill dev. )
 Livelihoods (community finance) ( e.g. grant to the VO but
loan to the targeted community)
 Community infrastructure and social services ( e.g.
Construction /rehabilitation of community assets)
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Component B: Institutional Development and
Livelihoods Promotion at the Inter-village
 Market linkages and aggregate institutions
 Inter-village community infrastructure
Research questions
Focus now is on component-A (Community and
Livelihood Development at village level)
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Question 1 : What is the impact CDD process
on social empowerment, governance, inclusion,
social capital and cohesiveness?
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Question 2 : What is the impact of livelihood
development fund on economic wellbeing ?
Indicators
Research Question 1
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Attitudes, preferences etc
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Proxies of social relations / social conflict
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Disputes/Conflict resolution of the villages
Advance labor selling
Indebtedness
Child marriages
Access to public and private services/resources
Research Question 2
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Income ;
Consumption
Assets;
Employment;
No. of meals in a day
Food habit- Meat or fish in a week
Randomized sub-treatments
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Project restricts 70% of VO positions to hardcore poor –
subtreatment will relax the restriction
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Livelihoods development fund to be expanded to nontarget households – the rich (using external funds). The
idea is to test whether inclusiveness improves project
outcomes
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Others to be decided
Identification strategy
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Admin structure: District>Upazila (subdistrict)>union>village>target households)
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District and Upazila (sub-district) will be selected based on
published poverty data, Vulnerability index, Accessibility
information;
Randomly assign cluster intensity to unions (100% villages
treated, 70%, 30%, 0%)
Randomly assign unions to phases (3 phases in total but
only 1 and 3 used in the evaluation). Phase 3 is pipeline
control
Randomly select treatment villages in unions
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Sample
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Multi-stage clustered random sample
▪ Select district and sub-district (upazila) based on;
poverty data, vulnerability index, regional
characteristics e.g. Cyclone, flood, seasonal famine
etc.
▪ Randomly select clusters (unions)
▪ Randomly assign unions into phases (3) – only 1 and 2
used for evaluation
▪ Randomly select treatment and control villages
▪ Randomly sample target and control households
Timeline
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Baseline : November 2010
First follow-up : November 2012
Second follow-up : November 2014
Impact evaluation team
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Project Team;
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World Bank Team;
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Research Team – External e.g. DIME & Local;
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IE Survey Agency (Consulting Firm/Agency)
Estimated budget
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Project already allocated US$ 2.00 million for
survey data collection, process monitoring and
thematic studies ;
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Team will raise additional resources for
coordination and analysis
Q&A
Thank you