Malawi: Putting Farmers at the Centre of Climate Services
How to cope with climate variability is a key challenge for smallholder farmers globally. Participatory Integrated Climate Services for Agriculture (PICSA) is an approach developed to empower farmers’ decision making by providing them with seasonal weather forecasts.
PICSA Project Overview
Assessing PICSA's impact in MALAWI
STATUS
Finalized
START DATE
June 2018
END DATE
April 2022
SURVEY FIRM
Center for Independent Evaluations (CIE)
TECHNICAL PARTNERS
UNDP
Independent Evaluation Unit/Green Climate Fund (IEU/GCF)
Center for Evaluation and Development (C4ED)
How to assess PICSA impact?
A quasi-experimental method (Propensity Score Matching) was used to assess farmers’ adaptation decisions towards the use of participatory decision-making tools and forecasts when planning agricultural activities, and its impact on food expenditures and food security. The evaluation team matched farmers who participated in the trainings in 2018 with farmers in districts where trainings were rolled out in 2020 (after the endline data collection). The impact analysis was based on a household survey of almost 2,000 households in a total of eight districts in October 2020. Triangulation of findings was done with interviews with farmers, implementing partners and other programme stakeholders.
Impact Evaluation of the PICSA Project Gallery
