FXB International Releases Report Revealing Substantial Impact of the FXB-Village Program

FXB International's Tracer Study includes findings that, from their starting point as the poorest households in their communities, FXB-Village participants show greatly increased income and savings, and access to clean drinking water and education.
By: FXB International
 
May 17, 2012 - PRLog -- Press Contact: Liz Osborn
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(New York, NY) – Today FXB International released a Graduate Tracer Study. Among the exciting results include findings that, from their starting point as the poorest households in their communities, FXB-Village participants in Rwanda and Uganda show greatly increased income and savings. Additionally, the study shows that FXB-Village participants have vastly improved access to clean drinking water and are more likely to own their homes, and children are much more likely to be enrolled in school than they were at the beginning of the program. In each of the three study areas, the results show that the FXB-Village program significantly improves the lives of these participants.

Background

For over 20 years, FXB has refined its community-driven FXB-Village model into a structured program of household support and economic strengthening designed to empower particularly vulnerable families to escape extreme poverty and ensure the enduring well-being of the children in their care.

Long-term impact evaluations for holistic, community-based programs are relatively uncommon in the wider development community. The Graduate Tracer Study attempts to rectify this lack of evaluation by assessing the current well-being of 3 groups of FXB-Village participants who graduated from the program at different times throughout the past decade.  It examines the long-term impact that the FXB-Village has had on their lives and considers the history and evolution of the program, including changes to the participant selection process, the development of additional program components and the experiences and lessons learned that have informed decision making for subsequent programs.

Results

FXB-Village graduates in Rwanda and Uganda, several years after completing the program, are on average faring at least as well as nearby households in most aspects of well-being. While graduates continue to live close to the local poverty line, they have made tremendous progress from where they began on day one of the FXB-Village program.

Kigali, Rwanda

FXB-Village graduates have nearly tripled their daily income from 2000 to 2011, to $1.55/day, and in 2011 have equal incomes with their neighbors.

While FXB-Village graduates have less savings in 2011 compared to their neighbors, these same graduates have equal levels of home ownership with their neighbors.

FXB-Village graduate families have a higher percentage of their children enrolled in primary school than their neighbors.

Gitarama, Rwanda

FXB-Village graduates have increased their daily income from $0.13 in 2003 to over $1.31 in 2011, although this is still less than their neighbors’ daily income ($1.59).

Graduates have greater levels of savings and home ownership than their neighbors.

Graduates are on par with their neighbors on all other well-being factors, including child health, sanitation and primary school enrollment.

Semuto, Uganda

FXB-Village graduates have far superior levels of daily income and savings compared to their neighbors.

Graduates and their neighbors have roughly equal levels of home ownership.

Graduates and their neighbors are roughly equal for other well-being indicators, although a greater percentage of FXB-Village graduates treat their drinking water.

To read the full report visit http://www.fxb.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/FXB-Graduat....  

To learn more about FXB’s innovative model, visit http://www.fxb.org
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