analysis of monitoring and evaluation of childfund ireland community action programme
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ANALYSIS OF MONITORING AND EVALUATION OF CHILDFUND IRELAND COMMUNITY ACTION PROGRAMME. Completed for ChildFund Ireland Rachel Vard & Amy Wickham TCD-UCD Masters in Development Practice 2010-12. Introduction to ChildFund Ireland. Long-term sustainable development . - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
ANALYSIS OF MONITORING AND
EVALUATION OF CHILDFUND IRELAND COMMUNITY ACTION PROGRAMME
Completed for ChildFund Ireland Rachel Vard & Amy Wickham
TCD-UCD Masters in Development Practice2010-12
• Long-term sustainable development.
• Operations involve; working with community leaders and government; addressing various needs, focussing to a large extent on OVCs...
• Results of ChildFund projects include; improved access...and other services
specific to children's individual needs.
• ChildFund Ireland’s mission statement expresses –
“A commitment to working with children, their families and communities in order to develop an enabling environment where children's basic need are met and their rights and promoted and respected.” [2]
propose a 3 year programme which aims to;
(i) Strengthen sustainable community support systems ~438,000 people across 5 Partner Countries..
(ii) Expand the capacity of local partners…
(iii) Build on families and communities’ capacities…
ZAMBIA (FEB 07 & JAN 2010)MCH ProjectMCH– HIV Integrated Project
MOZAMBIQUE (AUG 07 & SEPT 09)Community Action for Vulnerable Children and Families in Inhambane Province & Manica Province
GUINEA (NOV 07)Integrated Health Project for Vulnerable Children and Women
ETHIOPIA (JUNE 06 & 08) Sustainable Quality Care and Support for OVCs Strengthening Local Capacity to Address Child Protection and Gender Based Violence (GBV)
UGANDA (OCT 06 & JAN 09) Protecting OVCs Enhancing HIV prevention through improved Access to Youth Reproductive Health Services and Prevention of GBV
• Literary Review; DFID, Global Fund, World Bank, IFAD, USAID, CIVICUS, MDFArticles; Laurence Taylor, Esther Mehbrahtu
• What is M&E?Indicators and ObjectivesPALS; Logframe TablesHow does M&E work outside of theory?
Our Methodology for this analysis included:
1) Analysing Annual reports and M&E tables Result reporting analysed between both. Assessing M&E System Issues
2) Quantifying Achievement of New and Original Objectives
3)Speaking to Staff and Observing Organisational Documentation
N.B. Verification Issues limit this analysis; can only serve as the basis for further investigation.
Some targets not yet metCultural Issues; Succession PlansBusiness OperationBehavioural Changes
Reporting Issues
• Assessment of M&E Systems in the Field EssentialCommunicationRelevance of M&E Cultural and Physical
• Theory Based System of Reporting– Performance in Practice
Measuring ImpactMeasuring Impact Indicators and Impact measurement in
“increased knowledge”, “changes in behaviour”, “reached with education messages”
Impact and Development– Increases accountability – Establishing True Solutions
How can Impact be evaluated?– Data Collect; Impact Evaluation Surveys– Establishing relationships between activities and results