Impact Evaluation of Rural Health Infrastructure Sub-sector of the Community and Social Development Project, Adamawa State, Nigeria
Journal Title: Scholars Journal of Agriculture and Veterinary Sciences - Year 2015, Vol 2, Issue 2
Abstract
Abstract: The review assesses changes in the well-being of individuals, households or communities in the health sub-sector that can be attributed to the CSDP in the State. The data for the study is mainly secondary. The secondary data were obtained from the reports of the impact evaluation conducted for the CSDP in Adamawa state. To establish causality between a program and an outcome, impact evaluation method that rules out the possibility of any factors other than the program of interest was used to explain the impact. The concept of CSDP requires that Difference-in-Differences (DD) be used for the impact evaluation. Descriptive and quantitative techniques such as frequency tables, percentages, means, standard deviations and variance were employed in the analysis of the study data. The results revealed that, the proportion of the respondents within the age bracket of 25- 60 years was 83.40%, while their mean age was 41.46 years. Gender wise, majority of the respondents were males i.e. 95.94% with 90.22% of them married, 62% have more than 6 years of formal education, and about 50.12% of the respondents has more than 7 individuals in their households. The estimation of outcome impact for health projects indicated that, availability of health centers in the communities increases their accessibility to health services. This was evidenced by the improvement of the number of people attending health centers for treatment and or counseling. It was recommended that, the World Bank should continue with the second phase of the project or expand the life span of the existing one, as it proved to be beneficial towards improving the quality of life of the rural communities in the State. This will also enable the non-benefiting communities to be incorporated into the activities of the CSDP for future intervention. Keywords: Impact, Evaluation, Rural. Health, Infrastructure, Community, Social Development and Project.
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A. A. Girei, B. Dire, Haruna, U
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