One Acre Fund (OAF) cost effectiveness analysis

Kenya

The Project

Client: One Acre Fund  

Dates: ​2020 – 2022 

Project Description: The One Acre Fund (OAF) works with farmers directly to improve household food production and nutritional status. OAF’s ​​work ​​in w​​estern Kenya addresses both poverty and malnutrition in targeted smallholder farming households across OAF’s Kenyan farmer network. With funding from the Children’s Investment Fund​, OAF established a nutrition programme which aimed to improve the dietary diversity of these families, particularly among children and pregnant and lactating women, by increasing household food production and consumption of nutritious food.​

Our Role: To assess the impact of ​this nutrition programme, Kantar was commissioned to conduct an evaluation, using a quasi-experimental approach, to compare​ outcomes relating to​​ household dietary diversity​, women’s dietary diversity,​ and minimum acceptable diet ​of children between six and 23 months.  

As part of this evaluation, LAMP conducted a cost-effectiveness analysis of adding the ​​nutrition​​programme to the c​​ore ​OAF ​programme​. This ​analysis compared the costs and benefits of the two respective programmes ​to assess whether the additional benefits from the nutrition programme justif​​ied its additional costs.  

Team Members: Ijeoma Edoka, Jennifer Armitage  

Impact

  • LAMP conducted a c​​ost-effectiveness analysis of OAF’s nutrition intervention, including a Social and Behaviour Change Communication component.  
  • Findings from LAMP’s cost-effectiveness analysis ​​are expected to be used to inform OAF’s future programmes.   

Client Testimonial

  • Lamp Development provided expertise to help shape our VFM Approach. They worked in a collaborative style, built a strong working relationship with staff and produced practical outputs which is exactly what we asked for. The outputs have already been used by our Project Managers to improve how we report VfM within on-going projects and words have also been included to increase our VfM scoring within bids. Thanks for all the help!

    - Practice Lead, Governance and State Building, Crown Agents
  • The analysis LAMP made on the case study was very useful for the implementing partners and for users of the report to see the impact of the interventions in monetary and statistical terms. The benefits of both interventions were clearly seen. LAMP were very proactive in data collection and were flexible with regards to challenges in obtaining required data; they were quick to come up with alternative methods to capture data and were able to make use of the limited data available.

    - Crown Agents
  • The framework was very well received by the team. The engagement was carried out in a planned, consultative and thorough manner.  LAMP’s communication style, interaction with partners, response timeliness are all excellent.

    - Solar Nigeria Programme (SNP)
  • We worked with LAMP for an evaluation of an adolescent suicide prevention project in Kazakhstan. LAMP were very professional in defining the scope of the cost-effectiveness stream of work, in dealing with the client, and in delivering within a quick time-frame when the data did arrive! We would work with them again. 

    - Health Team Leader, Itad
  • LAMP’s project objectives were achieved, and we received positive feedback from DFID on the final output. The report led to some interesting discussions with DFID and between partners. The number-crunching and the organization of data was excellent. I think we worked very well together. Jennifer and Susie were always prompt and responsive.

    - Senior manager – M&E, KEEP

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