Baseline, Value Chains and the NOTAB Information Network: Rural Household Livelihoods in Four Grand Anse Communities
- 51 percent of respondents had not attended primary school, with no sign of rising education levels over the past 40 to 50 years.
- From Hurricane Matthew in October 2016 to the survey, telephone ownership fell from 72 to 56 percent, mattresses from 71 to 20 percent, dining tables from 64 to 20 percent and radios from 52 to 22 percent.
- 83 percent of respondents travel on foot, 10 percent by pack animal and 3 percent by motorcycle.
- The survey recorded 2,310 people, 53 percent male and 47 percent female, an average household size of 5.1.
- Households own an average of 1.38 carreaux (1.78 hectares) of land.
- 72 percent of households owned at least one chicken at the survey and 46 percent a goat; at the time of Matthew 92 percent owned a goat and 61 percent a cow.
Led by Timothy Schwartz for Socio-Dig with HEKS-EPER and UMCOR, the report has three parts and an annex. Part I is a baseline survey designed for 400 households, stratified by four agro-ecological zones (Abriko, Fon Kochon, Wo Voldrog, Wo Ginode); 451 acceptable interviews were collected over 15 days, April 3 to 18, on tablets with GPS. It covers education, household structure, transport, assets, land, crops, trees, livestock, other income, credit and crises, and compares ownership at the time of Hurricane Matthew in October 2016 with the time of the survey. Part II maps three value chains: trees (fruit, lumber, charcoal), goats and fish. Part III describes a 1,012-household survey that asked household heads to name local leaders, who now form a HEKS-EPER leadership network. The annex holds data on fishing, trees and goats and six translated focus groups.
How to cite
Socio-Dig; HEKS/EPER; UMCOR, 2018, Baseline, Value Chains and the NOTAB Information Network: Rural Household Livelihoods in Four Grand Anse Communities, accessed via HaitiDocs, https://www.haitidocs.org/doc/sociodig-2018-baseline-value-chains-notab-grand-anse