Food Security and Livelihoods Support among Fishers and Fish Processors in Kasenyi and Tchomia Project Effectiveness Review – Summary Report

The results provide no indication of any sustained effect on the quantity or quality (as measured by price) of the fish being sold by either the fishers or the processors. Among the fish processors, there is also no indication of any positive effect on household income as a whole or on any other measures of household wellbeing such as food security or asset wealth. However, for the fishers, the data do provide some evidence of sustained higher income and increased asset wealth among those who were supported by the project. These results are corroborated by several self-reported measures of household income which were collected during the survey. It appears from these results, therefore, that the project activities of 2008/09 have enabled fishing households to realise some sustained improvements in wellbeing. Unfortunately, however, the same does not apply to the households of fish processors.