Impact of capacity development on the income of alpaca farming families in the northeast region of Puno, period 2010 - 2012

Abstract

The objective of the study is to estimate the impact of the project "Capacity development and employment generation in the Northeast region of Puno, period 2010-2012" in the income of beneficiary families. The scope of the study corresponds to alaskan households of the districts of Cojata, Ananea and Patambuco whose total beneficiary population was 582 families; The analysis methodology used was based on the Propénsity Score Matching method and the Nearest Neighbor Matching variant. Social, economic, productive and reproductive indicators were used for this. The results indicate that the average effect on the income of the families involved in the project compared to the control group was S/. 580.00. Variables: district, sex, marital status, hectares and skin of young alpacas contribute significantly to the balance and pairing of the data in 7 blocks, while the variables age, number of children and alpacas reduce the probability of pairing. The non-significance of the alpaca variable would explain the nature of the project as an intervention not only with results in the short term but rather that the quality improvement in alpacas occurs in the medium and long term.