| Principal Investigator: | Heath J. Prince, PhD |
| Sponsor: | Nuru |
| Project Duration: | April 2021 – February 2025 |
| Description: | The Ray Marshall Center will assist Nuru International’s M&E team with analyzing and reporting Nuru Ethiopia, Nuru Kenya, and Nuru Nigeria’s impact. |
| Reports Available: | Nuru Burkina Faso 2023 Impact Report 2023 Authors: Heath Prince and Thomas Boswell (Ray Marshall Center); Souleymane Ouedraogo (Nuru Burkina Faso); and Matt Lineal, Casey Harrison, Ian Schwenke, Bethany Ibrahim (Nuru) Date: May 2024 Publication Type: Report, 23pp. This report is commissioned by Nuru. Nuru Kenya 2023 Dairy Impact Brief Nuru Nigeria 2023 Endline Impact Report Nuru Ethiopia 2022 Impact Report Nuru Kenya 2022 Dairy Report Nuru Ethiopia 2021 Impact Report Nuru Nigeria 2022 Short-Term Impacts Nuru Nigeria: 2021 Midpoint Impact Report 2019 Nuru Nigeria Baseline Report |
Search Results for: nuru
Nuru Ethiopia 2020 Impact Report
Nuru Ethiopia 2020 Impact Report
Authors: Ashweeta Patnaik and Heath Prince (RMC), Tatek Amataw (Nuru Ethiopia), and Casey Harrison and Matt Lineal (Nuru International)
This report is commissioned by Nuru International.
Date: June 2021
Publication Type: Report, 19pp.
Since 2016, the Ray Marshall Center has provided technical assistance to Nuru International’s monitoring and evaluation (M&E) team. The Center’s experience and expertise support Nuru’s work in Kenya, Ethiopia, and Nigeria by demonstrating the effectiveness and robustness of its integrated approach to addressing poverty. This report presents Nuru Ethiopia’s 2020 impact results for farmer cooperatives, rural livelihoods, and healthcare programming. RMC researchers found that Nuru interventions led to higher agricultural incomes for Nuru farmer households and reductions in under‐five mortality while building a foundation of sustainable cooperative businesses.
In 2020, communities and farmers in southern Ethiopia experienced the onset of the COVID‐19 pandemic, a national state of emergency, continued desert locust swarms, and the outbreak of violent conflict in Ethiopia’s northern Tigray region. However, the firm foundation of livelihood diversification, healthy behaviors, and farmer organization impacts will ensure that meaningful choices are available to farmers in the future through their member‐owned businesses. Rigorous methods including comparison groups and benchmarking‐based analysis demonstrated that Nuru Ethiopia achieved attributable impact in 2020 despite the multiple challenges present in the year.
Nuru Kenya 2020 Impact Report
Nuru Kenya 2020 Impact Report
Authors: Ashweeta Pantaik (RMC), Heath Prince (RMC), Hillary Ragen (Nuru Kenya), Casey Harrison (Nuru Kenya), and Matt Lineal (Nuru International)
Date: April 2021
Publication Type: Report, 24pp.
This report is commissioned by Nuru International.
Since 2016, the Ray Marshall Center has been providing technical assistance to support Nuru International’s monitoring and evaluation (M&E) team. The Center’s experience and expertise supports Nuru’s work in Kenya, Ethiopia, and Nigeria by demonstrating the effectiveness and robustness of its integrated approach to addressing poverty. In Kenya, the integrated Nuru model seeks to address three key areas of need: 1) food insecurity, 2) inability to cope with economic shocks and 3) unnecessary disease and death. To track program impact, the M&E team collects yearly evaluation data to support all data-driven decision-making. This report reviews Nuru Kenya’s 2020 impact results for rural livelihoods, healthcare, and farmer organization performance.
Nuru Kenya 2020 Healthcare Program Impact on Lives Saved Tool (LiST)
Nuru Kenya 2020 Healthcare Program Impact on Lives Saved Tool (LiST)
Authors: Ray Marshall Center
Co-author: Nuru International, Nuru Kenya
Date: November 2020
Publication Type: Research Memo, 4pp.
This report is commissioned by Nuru International.
RMC researchers have completed an annual research memo on the impact of Nuru Kenya’s Healthcare intervention. In 2020, Nuru Kenya’s Healthcare intervention reached 1,659 households including 9,954 individuals with a health behavior change approach. This intervention was delivered as part of an integrated rural service delivery portfolio including livelihoods, financial inclusion, dairy, and farmer cooperative activities. Using the Lives Saved Tool (LiST), researchers found that the intervention achieved a 24% reduction in under-five child mortality. In total, 20 lives were saved. The cost per person per year was $4.84 for these services. The cost per life saved was $2,433. These intervention activities were delivered and the impact was achieved amidst the context of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Nuru Ethiopia 2019 Impact Report
Nuru Ethiopia 2019 Impact Report
Principal Author: Ray Marshall Center
Co-author: Nuru International
Date: September 2020
Publication Type: Report, 11pp.
This report is commissioned by Nuru International.
RMC researchers have completed an annual impact report for the impact evaluation of Nuru International’s programming in Ethiopia. In 2013, Nuru Ethiopia (NE) set out to provide meaningful choices that empower communities to lift themselves out of poverty in a sustainable way. The NE development model seeks to address four key areas of need: 1) food insecurity, 2) inability to cope with economic shocks, and 3) unnecessary disease and death. In 2016, the Agriculture and Financial Inclusion programs were combined to make the Rural Livelihoods (RL) Program.
To track program impact, the NE Monitoring and Evaluation (M&E) team collects yearly evaluation data to support all data-driven decision making. In 2016, Nuru International partnered with the Ray Marshall Center to better understand program outcomes and impacts. This report documents the analysis of the agricultural yield and income follow-up data collected in 2020 for the impact evaluation of Nuru International’s programming in Ethiopia.
Nuru Nigeria 2020 Short Term Impacts
Nuru Nigeria: 2020 Short Term Impacts
Principal Authors: Ray Marshall Center
Co-Author: Nuru Nigeria
Date: September 2020
Publication Type: Report, 14pp.
This report is commissioned by Nuru International.
RMC researchers, Dr. Heath Prince and Ashweeta Patnaik, have completed an interim short term impact report for the four-year impact evaluation of Nuru International’s programming in Nigeria. Nuru Nigeria’s mission is to eradicate extreme poverty in fragile rural areas to build communities resilient to violent extremism. The goal of the multi-year impact evaluation is to study, through a development economics lens, how Nuru’s anti-poverty interventions in Nigeria impact resiliency to shocks. The results presented in this short term impact report reflect the initial limited set of intervention activities implemented from July 2019 to June 2020. The report sets out the follow-up status of various short-term impact indicators and makes comparisons with baseline values for the same indicators and among the same panel of respondents. The report supports continuous improvement by providing Nuru Nigeria with information regarding program progress within the implementation period.
2019 Nuru Kenya Impact Report
2019 Nuru Kenya Impact Report
Principal Author: Ray Marshall Center
Co-author: Nuru International
Date: February 2020
Publication Type: Report,18pp.
This report is commissioned by Nuru International
Since 2016, the Ray Marshall Center has been providing technical assistance to support Nuru International’s monitoring and evaluation (M&E) team. The Center’s experience and expertise supports Nuru’s work in Kenya, Ethiopia, and Nigeria by demonstrating the effectiveness and robustness of its integrated approach to addressing poverty.
In Kenya, the integrated Nuru model seeks to address three key areas of need: 1) food insecurity, 2) inability to cope with economic shocks and 3) unnecessary disease and death. To track program impact, the M&E team collects yearly evaluation data to support all data-driven decision making. This report reviews Nuru Kenya’s impact results from baseline collected in 2018 to the first follow-up in 2019 for Nuru Kenya’s Rural Livelihoods and Healthcare programs.
Nuru Nigeria Baseline Report dataset request
The overarching goal of Nuru Nigeria is to equip rural, vulnerable households to improve livelihoods and build resilience capacities to cope with conflict, environmental, economic, and social shocks and stressors for stability and prosperity. The goal of the multi-year impact evaluation is to study, through a development economics lens, how Nuru’s anti-poverty interventions in Nigeria impact resiliency to shocks. The 2019 Nuru Nigeria Baseline Report describes the baseline study for the four-year impact evaluation of Nuru International’s programming in Nigeria. The data used to produce the findings in the 2019 Nuru Nigeria Baseline Report are available as a public use dataset. Please complete the data request form in order to access the Nuru Nigeria public use dataset.
The public use dataset has been scrubbed of personally identifiable information to protect the confidentiality of participants. By using these data you hereby agree to these conditions.
- Your receipt of the data serves as agreement to use this information for valid research purposes only, not for commercial or private use .
- Nuru International should be cited as the data source in any products derived from these data.
- Any users wishing to modify the data are obligated to describe the types of modifications they have performed.
- The user specifically agrees not to misrepresent the data, nor to imply that changes made were approved or endorsed by Nuru International or the Ray Marshall Center.
2019 Nuru Nigeria Baseline Report
2019 Nuru Nigeria Baseline Report
Principal Author: Ray Marshall Center
Co-author: Nuru International
Date: October 2019
Publication Type: Report, 61pp.
This report is commissioned by Nuru International
Abstract:
RMC researchers Dr. Heath Prince and Ashweeta Patnaik have completed the baseline analysis for the four-year impact evaluation of Nuru International’s programming in Nigeria. The overarching goal of Nuru Nigeria is to equip rural, vulnerable households to improve livelihoods and build resilience capacities to cope with conflict, environmental, economic, and social shocks and stressors for stability and prosperity. The goal of the multi-year impact evaluation is to study, through a development economics lens, how Nuru’s anti-poverty interventions in Nigeria impact resiliency to shocks. A cluster randomization approach was used to randomly assign two wards to the intervention group and two wards to the comparison group. Statistical methods designed for improving inter-group comparability were applied at baseline to bring the intervention and comparison group participants as closely into balance as possible. A difference-in-differences statistical technique will be used to estimate program impact annually and at endline. The impact evaluation utilizes a mixed-method approach with both quantitative and qualitative components, including a household survey, focus group discussions, and key informant interviews. The evaluation design, baseline data, and the covariate balancing methods applied to the baseline data place the project on a solid footing for rigorous impact analyses at midline and endline.
2018 Nuru Ethiopia Impact Report
2018 Nuru Ethiopia Impact Report
Principal Author: Ray Marshall Center
Co-Author: Nuru International
Date: August 2019
Publication Type: Report, 43 pp.
This report is commissioned by Nuru International.
Since 2016, the Ray Marshall Center has been providing technical assistance to support Nuru International’s monitoring and evaluation (M&E) team. The Center’s experience and expertise supports Nuru’s work in Kenya, Ethiopia, and Nigeria by demonstrating the effectiveness and robustness of its integrated approach to addressing poverty. The integrated Nuru model seeks to address four key areas of need: 1) food insecurity, 2) inability to cope with economic shocks, 3) unnecessary disease and death, and 4) lack of quality education for children.
In Ethiopia and Kenya, Nuru M&E utilizes a quasi-experimental design with the intent of measuring the effectiveness of the four impact programs as well as the overarching impact of these programs on multidimensional poverty. By following a panel of farmers from a non-intervention group as well as the same cohort of Nuru households over time, Nuru M&E evaluates whether or not any observed changes in well-being can be attributed to Nuru programming. Additionally, M&E analyzes key performance indicators to ensure programs track toward their goals.
Since 2017, RMC researchers have been responsible for carrying out data analyses for the Nuru M&E team and studying the outcomes and impacts of Nuru’s programming in Ethiopia. Findings from the analyses are used by the Nuru M&E team to inform program planning and decision making. In this report, RMC researchers present results from an outcomes and impact analysis of Nuru’s Rural Livelihoods, Health, and Education programs in Ethiopia in 2018.
