Evaluation of DFID’s livelihoods work in Western Odisha

Footnotes

  1. Odisha state was until recently called Orissa.
  2. The developing world is poorer than we thought, but no less successful in the fight against poverty, World Bank Development Research Group, Policy Research Working Paper 4703, August 2008, http://www-wds.worldbank.org/external/default/WDSContentServer/IW3P/IB/2010/01/21/000158349_20100121133109/Rendered/PDF/WPS4703.pdf.
  3. Written evidence submitted by Save the Children to the International Development Committee report ‘The Future of DFID’s Programme in India’, March 2011, www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm201011/cmselect/cmintdev/writev/616/m15.htm.
  4. DFID’s Support for Health and Education in India, ICAI May 2011, http://icai.independent.gov.uk/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/ICAI-Evaluation-of-DFIDs-Support-for-Health-and-Education-in-India-Final-Report2.pdf.
  5. Dr C Chandramouli, Rural Urban Distribution of Population, July 2011, http://censusindia.gov.in/2011-prov-results/paper2/data_files/india/Rural_Urban_2011.pdf.
  6. Sustainable Livelihoods Guidance Sheets, Numbers 1–8, DFID (1999a, 2000d, 2001), (also available on www.livelihoods.org).
  7. A watershed is the area that drains to a common outlet (such as a river or into a lake). It is often seen as the basic building block for land and water planning.
  8. India’s States are subdivided into Districts (Orissa has 30 Districts) which are then further divided into Sub-Divisions and then Blocks (represented by Panchayats, or councils). There are 314 blocks in Orissa.
  9. Project Details: WORLP, DFID, http://projects.dfid.gov.uk/project.aspx?Project=107874.
  10. Better results for poor people: Annual Report and Accounts 2008-09, DFID, 2009, http://www.dfid.gov.uk/Documents/publications1/departmental-report/2009/volume1.pdf.
  11. Western Orissa Rural Livelihoods Project Logical Framework, DFID, 25 May 2004.
  12. Western Orissa Rural Livelihoods Project Logical Framework, DFID, 25 May 2004.
  13. Western Orissa Rural Livelihoods Project Logical Framework, DFID, 25 May 2004.
  14. Policy Brief Sustainable Livelihoods and Climate Change Adaptation in WORLP, DFID.
  15. Impact Assessment of WORLP, 2011, Sambodhi Research and Communications Ltd (for DFID), Summary of findings available at: http://community.eldis.org/.59cc6781/Files/.
  16. Impact Assessment of Externally Aided Project Interventions on Livelihood of the poor and Marginalized in KBK Districts of Orissa, Center for Rural Development for Government of India Planning Commission, 2011, http://planningcommission.nic.in/reports/sereport/ser/ser_2901.pdf.
  17. The ERR is described in the DFID report as ‘the annualized effective compounded return rate which can be earned on the invested capital’. It is termed ‘an indicator of efficiency of an investment, as opposed to net present value (NPV), which indicates value or magnitude’. Our evaluation will comment on these calculations.
  18. Impact Assessment of WORLP, 2011, Sambodhi Research and Communications Ltd (for DFID), Summary of findings available at: http://community.eldis.org/.59cc6781/Files/.
  19. Corruption Perceptions Index 2011, Transparency International, 2011, www.transparency.org/content/download/64426/1030807.
  20. Examples include: The Western and Eastern India Rainfed Farming Projects (WIRFP and EIRFP), the Andhra Pradesh Rural Livelihood Programme (APRLP) and Madhya Pradesh Rural Livelihoods Programme (MPRLP).