Change Monitoring System

CMS 5(S)

Baten (DSK), Hannah (shiree) and Sonia (Uttaran)

Purpose • To provide a qualitative longitudinal study which

documents the dynamics of extreme poverty as it is experienced and the changes in beneficiaries’ lives as a result of project interventions.

• Emphasis on how HHs are responding to interventions, and on the context and relationships within which they live.

• Q2 – triangulation - ask the “why”?

Methodology • Life histories: look in-depth at the original positions of

households before the project. - Where is a HH coming from?

• Reflections on the intervention.- Tracks change in HHs throughout the intervention. - Different members of the HH; investment and reinvestment.

Life-cycle approach; captures chronic experience of extreme poverty as well as short-term change.

• 36 Households (currently 6 per SF). • Ranking – diets, employment and assets (income

generation)

Well-being ranking Category Diets

(meals a day)Employment Assets (Income

generation)

1. Destitute 1 mealNothing in difficult times

Begging/dependence on others

None

2. Working extreme poor

2 meals 1 in difficult times

Labourer or domestic maid

Virtually none – Rely on labour power

3. Moderate poor 3 meals2 in difficult times

Small IGAs or business combined with casual labour

Some IGAs, business or skills,may lease land.

4. Lower earning (non-poor)

3 meals No reduction

Larger scale occupations with assets or higher skilled work

Greater value of assets, higher scale business or skill (may require education)

5. Middle elite 3 mealsNo reduction

Medium scale employer, money lender or trader (wider distances)

Greater

6. Wealthy elite 3 mealsNo reduction Expensive side dishes

Large-scale Even greater

Case of MS• MS (33) lives with his wife (30) and two

daughters(8 and 6).• He lives at Kalaberia village of Noapara

union of Debhata upazilla, Satkhira District.

• He became a beneficiary of Uttaran-Shiree partnership project (SEMPTI) in 2009.

• IGA and Land assistance:March-April, 2010-1st IGA -10000 PL- 5,200 takaAugust 10, Permanent Settlement Deed of 1 acre of land (Fish Production)Dec 2010- 2nd Phase of IGA Assistance5,200 taka- 6 goatsApril-May 2011- 3rd Phase of IGA Assistance- 2400 taka- Golda PLMat for Latrine Wall-1200

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1990 1996 1997 2000 2003 2009 S 2010 2011

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Life history map of MS (33)

Leaving school and working as a helper in a whole sale fish market in exchange of meagre salary had made his stay in the borderline of destitution. Marrying at a young age without any stable source of income had aggravated the situation

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Occupying one acre of khasland had created a source of income raising the family in a working extreme poor level.

The family stayed at the level of lower working extreme poor as lack of capital resulted in very low income from the shrimp cultivation. The family stayed at the level as the hh head worked as a rickshaw puller in Dhaka in the lean seasons.

The family moved down to destitution level as it had to face challenges of house blowing away, water logging and virus infection reducing income opportunities.

In 2010-11 season, doing a business worth 65000 taka which was facilitated by IGA followed by asset creation.

Excessive rain this month, washing away the ghers and homestead. Family has shifted to the inlaws place

Nasrin Alam

• Nasrin Alam (26 years old) has been living at Korail slum for seven years including her husband and a 3 years son

• She was born at Barisal

• Her husband came from Rangpur

• She was enlisted for DSK-Shiree project in June 2009

• Received training, assets from DSK-Shiree since February 2010

Thank You