Feed the Future Data Harmonization – USAID Seminar Presentation, June 7, 2018

On June 7, Carlo Azzarri with Zhe Guo presented a seminar on the GCAN Data Harmonization to the USAID Feed the Future's Monitoring, Evaluation, and Learning (MEL) team. The seminar featured GCAN’s ongoing efforts to harmonize and standardize Feed the Future Population-Based Survey datasets across gender, agriculture, nutrition, and climate dimensions. Using the available FTF baseline as well as interim datasets from three countries (Bangladesh, Ghana, and Zambia), a series of preliminary insights gained from the data ex-post harmonization were presented and discussed with the USAID MEL team. For example, higher soil fertility was shown to be correlated with improved child nutrition outcomes in Zambia; higher level of plant vegetation associated with lower household hunger in Ghana; and finally higher temperature and more rainfall correlated with higher workload for women. The harmonized datasets are publicly available on the GCAN project website (https://gcan.ifpri.info/category/outputs/Datasets/) and IFPRI’s data repository (https://dataverse.harvard.edu/dataverse/IFPRI).

 

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