pathway out of poverty

What: Community empowerment, trainings and quality inputs, income diversification, WASH and health outreach for 27.600 smallholder households
Where: Kitagwenda, Western Region, and Rakai, Central Region, Uganda
When: 2024-2026

Data informed and multi-facetted

Raising The Village (RTV) is a non-profit organisation based in Canada and Uganda that works to eradicate extreme poverty in remote rural communities. By partnering with local villages, RTV provides sustainable solutions that empower residents to improve their livelihoods, focusing on areas such as agriculture, health, education and economic development. Through a holistic, community-driven approach, RTV ensures that families achieve lasting self-sufficiency and resilience, creating a brighter future for some of the world's most underserved populations.

Raising The Village (RTV) partners with last mile communities and implements a comprehensive, data-informed approach which includes

  • addressing food security, clean water, and health barriers.
  • community activities including training on good agricultural practices, organic inputs, food security, and distribution of improved seedlings, as well as vegetable gardens.
  • trainings on coffee and other perennial crops like passion fruit.

The objective is to improve economic well-being and ensure sustainable income growth post-project. The expected overall outcomes are:

  • an increase in household income to 2.00 2017 PPP USD/ day (i.e. in 2017 prices) within 24 months

Creating evidence
The causal effects of the project will be investigated through a clustered randomized control trail (cRCT). The cRCT will create rigorous evidence from the program and help to understand the impact of intervention pathways.

The evaluation intends to address the following questions:

  • Which causal effects does the program have on key indicators including gross and net household income, household asset endowment, coffee revenue and profits, best practice adoption and yield?
  • How do project effects vary between different demographic groups?
  • Which core project components and pathways are driving these outcomes?
  • How do coffee-centered interventions contribute to the project outcomes?