Actual Number of Direct Beneficiaries

The indicator measures the actual number of people who were supported by the project’s resilience-strengthening programming (i.e. the direct beneficiaries). It shows the scale of the provided support.

Determine the indicator’s value by reviewing the following sources:

- regular project reports (e.g. reports to a donor)

- monitoring data (e.g. distribution lists, attendance lists, post-distribution surveys)

- results of KAP surveys

The indicator’s value includes all the people who received some type of resilience-strengthening support provided by the project (i.e. do not automatically use the originally planned number of direct beneficiaries – use the actual number of people that were supported).

Disaggregate the data by gender.

1) Ensure that you avoid double counting – always count the same people only once, irrespective of how many types of resilience-strengthening support they received.

2) Do not include the number of indirect beneficiaries in the calculation – focus only on those who directly received support as a result of the project activities.