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title: "Engagement in Income Generation (EIG)"
slug: "engagement-in-income-generation-eig"
updated: 2025-07-17T12:22:25Z
published: 2025-07-17T12:22:25Z
canonical: "vamresources.manuals.wfp.org/engagement-in-income-generation-eig"
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# Engagement in Income Generation (EIG)

**Proportion of people engaged in Income generating activities (IGA) as a result of skills development trainings (FFT)**

The Engagement in Income Generation (EIG) indicator measures the impact of skills development trainings on the livelihoods of participants by assessing the proportion of the total training participants which succeeded in engaging in income generation as a result of the skills improved or acquired during the training.

The objective of skills development trainings is to strengthen the human capital of participants by equipping them with skills which they can use to generate an income, in cash or in-kind. Income generation can help overcome food insecurity when economic factors are a fundamental cause of food insecurity.

Please find below the resources that will help you in collecting, analysing, and interpreting the EIG indicator:

- The [EIG module](https://docs.wfp.org/api/documents/WFP-0000141762/download/) extracted from [WFP Survey Designer](https://surveydesigner.vam.wfp.org/), to help simplify the authoring of forms in Excel. The XLS forms can be converted to ODK forms, a popular open-source data collection software, that allows you to author a form with complex functionality in a consistent way, across several web and mobile data collection platforms.
- The [EIG Methodological Note](https://docs.wfp.org/api/documents/WFP-0000141763/download/)
- The STATA Code to calculate the EIG as well as scripts on [Github](https://github.com/WFP-VAM/RAMResourcesScripts/tree/main/Indicators/Engagement-in-income-generating-activities) – R, STATA and SPSS – that are already created for you.

For more information, please contact the Asset Creation, Resilience and Livelihood Unit (PROR-L) Policy and Programme Division.

Email: [wfp.assetcreationandlivelihoods@wfp.org](mailto:wfp.assetcreationandlivelihoods@wfp.org)