Exploring the costs and outcomes of Camfed’s Seed Money Scheme (SMS) in Zimbabwe and Tanzania

Camfed International initiated this research project to explore the costs and outcomes of its Seed Money Scheme (SMS). This study was carried out in collaboration with the Gender, Violence & Health Centre at the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine. This study has a largely descriptive aim, using a mixture of quantitative cross-sectional survey and qualitative in-depth interviews (IDIs) in two selected rural areas in each country. In Zimbabwe, both quantitative and qualitative work was carried out while Tanzania was focused on the qualitative IDIs. Costing analysis for both countries was done retrospectively, through a revision of financial records supplemented by countrylevel reviews of activities, to estimate the value of nonfinancial inputs.