siyakha nentsha: using mixed methods to measure financial capabilities
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From a workshop on mixed methods to measure financial capabilities among adolescents. Focus on the Siyakha Nentsha Program in KwaZulu Natal, South AfricaTRANSCRIPT
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Siyakha NentshaBuilding assets and reducing vulnerability in KwaZulu Natal
Making CentsSeptember 8, 2011
Washington, DCEva Roca
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General context in
KZN
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Setting• Semi-rural KwaZulu Natal– Poverty and income inequality– Unemployment– Early pregnancy– Early school leaving– HIV
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Siyakha Nentsha• Schools, facilitators• Boys and girls• Participatory reflective learning,
action-oriented• Accredited• Testable
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Preparing for opportunities and risks
HIV and STIs teenage pregnancy early unplanned parenthood
school dropout loss of one or both parentsemployment and training opportunities social grants
social support citizenshiplanguage skills
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Randomization
HIV education, social support
+ financial capabilities
HIV education &
social support
Delayed intervention
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Attendance rostersLongitudinal survey
FGDs with participants, parents, and mentors
GPS coordinatesInterim data on location, cell phone, statusDiaries
VideoSchool quality assessments
Methods
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Special considerations with young people
• Timing• Attention span• Interviewer selection• Legal context
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Considerations during M&E tool design
• Who will create/finalize the registers & by when?
• When will these registers be used?
• Who is responsible for ensuring they get completed?
• Who is responsible for analysis/reporting?
• How often/when will the analysis/reporting be done?
• Do you need a monthly/quarterly summary form?
• What information will you need to report to donors or other stakeholder?
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Evaluation: what’s the point?• Lofty program goals• Interim steps to achievement• Assets program imparts toward specific ends
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• HIV/AIDS and RH: knowledge, skills and behaviors, including adoption of safer sexual behaviors and service use
• Economic skills: ability to plan and manage personal and familial finances, identify and access available services, FET opps, social benefits; articulate a plan for pursuing future livelihood-enhancing opportunities
• Social networks and support: access to friends, adult role models and individuals/groups who can assist with crisis management and provide links to opportunities
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Specific Financial capabilities questions
-I have a financial goal (yes/no)
-I am saving money in order to do or buy something specific (yes/no)
-When you have money, do you plan ahead for how to spend it?
-I have savings/ I am saving (yes/no)
-I have some money I keep in case of an emergency (yes/no)
-How much money do you have in your savings?
-Have you ever tried to open a bank account? (if yes, were you successful?)
-Have you ever borrowed money?
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Changes seen post-program
• Sexual debut• Secondary abstinence,
fewer partners • Condom confidence• Improved budgeting and planning skills
• Pursuing income-generating activities• Having savings• Social capital• Higher self-esteem• Birth certificate
• Social grants• SA ID
• Gender attitudes
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(Siyakha Nentsha) has helped us a lot, because although I had goals before the problem I had is I did not know how to prioritize, like which one should be more important than the other. Now I know that in order to reach my long-term goals, I should have short-term goals, that are going to be the steps toward my goals.”
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“Before, if I had money, say maybe I have 50 Rand, I would not check how much, I would just buy and see when I have to pay. But now if I have 50 Rand I have to calculate first, how many things I can get. And how much money I can use and what will remain behind.”
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Don’t trust your data too much
“I was helped a lot in the financial setion, because when they came here and they asked us if we knew how to save money, and I lied! I said yes!
…”Then they gave us diaries, so I started writing whenever I save money. Now I can see where the money is going.”
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Selected resources
• http://www.popcouncil.org/pdfs/2010PGY_AdolGirlToolkitSection4.pdf• Hallman, K. 2010, in press. “Social exclusion: The gendering of adolescent HIV
risks in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa,” in J. Klot and V. Nguyen eds., The Fourth Wave: An Assault on Women - Gender, Culture and HIV in the 21st Century. Social Science Research Council and UNESCO.
• Hallman, K. 2008.“Researching the determinants of vulnerability to HIV amongst adolescents,” IDS Bulletin, 39(5), November 2008.
• Bruce, J. and Hallman, K. 2008. “Reaching the girls left behind,” Gender & Development, 16(2): 227-245.
• Hallman, K and Roca, E. 2007. “Reducing the social exclusion of girls,” www.popcouncil.org/pdfs/TABriefs/PGY_Brief27_SocialExclusion.pdf
• Hallman, K. 2005. “Gendered socioeconomic conditions and HIV risk behaviours among young people in South Africa,” African Journal of AIDS Research 4(1): 37–50. Abstract: http://www.popcouncil.org/projects/abstracts/AJAR_4_1.html
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