Assessing the effectiveness of Christian Aid’s livelihood intervention model: A comparative study to highlight successes, challenges

This document presents an assessment of the efficacy of the Christian Aid livelihood intervention model.

Christian Aid has been actively implementing strategic livelihood interventions in Nigeria's crisis-affected Northeast region since 2018. However, despite our innovative approach, we lacked documented evidence of our effectiveness. Therefore, we commissioned a mixed methodology study to assess this.

Our study compared the income-generating activities of participants in Christian Aid's livelihood project with non-participants in the same area. We conducted this comparative study in Borno state, focusing on those in the Malakyariri community of Mafa Local Government Area (LGA) as the intervention group, and the Simari community in Maiduguri LGA as the control group (non-participants of the Christian Aid livelihood project).