Philippines - KALAHI-CIDSS Community Development Grants

This study is an impact evaluation of the KALAHI-CIDSS (KC) program. The impact evaluation's key research questions can be divided into the following four themes:

  1. Socio-Economic Effects: Does KC improve outcomes related to specific subprojects? Does it increase consumption, assets, or other facets of economic well-being?

  2. Governance Effects: Does KC increase participation in local governance and government leader responsiveness to community needs?

  3. Community Empowerment Effects: Does KC increase collective action and contribution to local public goods?

In order to isolate KC's effects, a randomized control trial evaluation design was chosen. The impact evaluation sample consists of 198 municipalities (with 33 to 69 percent poverty incidence), spread over 26 provinces and 12 regions. The 198 municipalities were paired based on similar characteristics (99 pairs) and then randomly assigned into treatment and control groups through public lotteries. The sample size is large enough to be able to detect MCC's projected eight percent change in household income as well as other smaller effects.

Data and Resources

Field Value
Groups
  • AmeriGEOSS
  • National Provider
  • North America
Tags
  • amerigeo
  • amerigeoss
  • ckan
  • geo
  • geoss
  • national
  • north-america
  • united-states
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maintainer Monitoring & Evaluation Division of the Millennium Challenge Corporation
maintainer_email impact-eval@mcc.gov
metadata_created 2025-12-02T08:24:35.313214
metadata_modified 2025-12-02T08:24:35.313218
notes This study is an impact evaluation of the KALAHI-CIDSS (KC) program. The impact evaluation's key research questions can be divided into the following four themes: 1. Socio-Economic Effects: Does KC improve outcomes related to specific subprojects? Does it increase consumption, assets, or other facets of economic well-being? 2. Governance Effects: Does KC increase participation in local governance and government leader responsiveness to community needs? 3. Community Empowerment Effects: Does KC increase collective action and contribution to local public goods? In order to isolate KC's effects, a randomized control trial evaluation design was chosen. The impact evaluation sample consists of 198 municipalities (with 33 to 69 percent poverty incidence), spread over 26 provinces and 12 regions. The 198 municipalities were paired based on similar characteristics (99 pairs) and then randomly assigned into treatment and control groups through public lotteries. The sample size is large enough to be able to detect MCC's projected eight percent change in household income as well as other smaller effects.
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title Philippines - KALAHI-CIDSS Community Development Grants