The quantitative component of this study assesses the initial impact of the Haku Wiñay project in a number of areas: the quality of life in the household —healthy practices, food security, solid waste management, among others—, the family production system —agricultural and forestry production technologies, small animal management, among others—, the generation of autonomous income —independent agricultural activities, services, trade, handicrafts, among others—, and the capacity to use and manage financial instruments. In particular, the study focuses on identifying the initial impact that the project has had on households using the Juntos programme. It should be noted that, to the extent that all the households studied have been intervened by Juntos, when we generically mention the programme/treatment/intervention, we refer to the Haku Wiñay project. In order to obtain consistent (unbiased) estimators of the effect of the programme on the intervention population, an experimental design and double difference estimators were applied.

This section presents the methodological framework used, as well as a brief explanation of the experimental design implemented. Second, we discuss potential problems arising from the small sample size, imperfections in the programmed treatment allocation, heterogeneity of the intervention and the loss of households between the first and second visit (attrition).