Sembrando Oportunidades Familia por Familia (SOF)

Data

Program Name:

Country:

Paraguay

Departments:

Capiibary and Chore in the San Pedro DepartmentCarayaó in the Caaguazú Department

Start Date:

December 2015

End Date:

July 2017

Duration:

18 months

Pilot:

Yes

Scaling Consideration:

Yes, already in progress

Part of a larger program:

Yes, part of the National Poverty Reduction Program, Sembrando Oportunidades

Participant Households:

776 (as of January 2017)

Key insights

Provided physical and psychological tools to households for starting their own productive projects, reducing both internal and external barriers to overcoming poverty.
Increases in work hours and labor income empowered participants to generate income for their families.
Transition from non-agricultural to independent agricultural income generation.
Participants reported a greater sense of well-being.

Program Objective

Promote the social and economic inclusion of extremely poor families in coordination with the private sector by strengthening inclusive value chains, fostering social participation of the extremely poor, and enhancing their organizations.

Targeting Criteria

Residence Zone: Rural

By Women No

Poverty Line: Extreme poverty

Other Vulnerabilities: No

Evaluation No. 1

Institución implementadora: CADEP

Type: Process Evaluation

Objective:
Evaluate the operation of the graduation program in three districts through a systematic analysis to identify how processes and activities lead to achieving defined outcomes, detect bottlenecks, and highlight best practices.

Tools:

Review of secondary documentation.
Interviews with relevant national and local entities and actors (STP, FK).
Interviews with zonal coordinators and promoters.
Surveys with zonal coordinators and promoters.
Participant interviews/focus groups.

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Evaluation No. 2

Implementing Institutions: CEDE, STP, and CADEP

Type: Outcome Evaluation

Objective:
Compare participants’ performance across predefined dimensions (e.g., income, consumption, etc.) before and after the asset transfers provided by the program.

Tools:

Participant surveys.
Participant interviews/focus groups.

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Entities

Government Entity Responsible:

Name:

Secretaría Técnica de Planificación del Desarrollo Eonómico y Social - STP

Other Entities

Agencia Española de Cooperación Internacional para el Desarrollo (AECID)
Ministerio de Agricultura y Ganadería (MAG)
Proyecto de Desarrollo Rural Sostenible (PRODERS)

Implementing Institution

The Center for Economic Development Studies (CEDE) is one of the first and leading economic and social research and consulting centers in Colombia. It is recognized for the quality and innovation of its research, for having a highly qualified team of research and teaching professionals, and for its impact on public policy issues in Colombia and the region.

The Centro de Análisis y Difusión de la Economía Paraguaya (CADEP), founded in 1990, is a non-governmental, non-profit organization dedicated to research, training and dissemination in the field of economics and political science.

Fundación Capital is an international development organization and innovation lab promoting global economic citizenship. Established in 2009, it aims to create lasting and systemic change. Alongside partners, it designs effective strategies to improve the financial, digital, and economic well-being of communities living in poverty and vulnerability in Latin America and Africa.

Implementing Institution

Jorge Maldonado

Investigador Principal

Viviana León Jurado

Investigadora y Coordinadora de caso

John Gómez

Investigador

Daniel Rodríguez

Asistente de investigación

Verónica Serafini

Investigadora Principal Análisis Cualitativo

Lis García

Investigadora

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