Evaluation of HIV specific legal services together with beneficiaries

IDLO – Health Law Program

Asela Kalugampitiya

Health Law Program

Global HIV epidemic

 

Over 33 million people living with HIV:•Over half are women

2.6 million newly infected in 2009

740,000 people living with HIV in ChinaThe national HIV prevalence is 0.1% Epidemic continues to be driven by high-risk behavior within particular sub- populations

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• Health Law program

To address national HIV responses to reduce discrimination and increase access to justice, including legal aid for people living with HIV and vulnerable populations

OPEC Fund for International Development (OFID).

Process and support to local partners

Technical support on M&E

The program is implemented in eight developing countries, Benin, Burkina Faso, China, Egypt, Guatemala, Indonesia, Nepal, and Papua New Guinea

IDLO provide technical support to set up a M&E system for the project, to conduct evaluations.  

China, Yunnan Province

 

Yunnan University HIV Legal Aid Center, Kunming

•Legal information and advice

•Peer counseling

•Outreach to drug users

•Lawyers trained for pro bono services

Unique in Yunnan and rare in China – due to close May 2011

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Mid-term evaluation

Objectives of the evaluation: • To identify what the project stake-

holders achieved during the period to be reviewed

• To identify what worked and gaps in achieving the project objectives

• To make recommendations for year 2 and beyond

Mid-term evaluation

•Key principles:• Local people are active participants, not just sources of information.• Stakeholders evaluate, outsiders facilitate.• The focus is on building stakeholder capacity for analysis and problem solving.

Mid-term evaluation

Evaluation team: Representatives of the stakeholders- Donors- Implementers- the community- Beneficiaries- other service providers- the government

Mid term evaluation

 Evaluation process:- Develop the evaluation process/ methodology- Select the evaluation team- Start communication with the team- Share documents to review with the team/ translation- Field work

- Finalize the field work schedule- Data collection through FGDs- Analysis/ presentation to stakeholders

- Dissemination of findings

Mid term evaluation

 Evaluation methodology:- Literature review- Data collection from key informants through

FGDsBeneficiaries, implementers, community groups, outreach centers, government, other service providers, donors etc

- Analysis- Presentation to stakeholders- Report writing

Mid term evaluation

  Lessons learnt:- Communication process to work with non

evaluators- Empowered evaluation team, whom can be used

for future evaluations- Participatory tools allow more qualitative data- Multi stakeholder team able to collect more

reliable data from their own communities- Participatory evaluation makes easier for

implementation of recommendations

Mid term evaluation

 

Next steps:- Recommendations were presented to the

implementers- Implementers are in the process of incorporating

recommendations- Final evaluation of the first phase is due in June

2011- Use results for fund raising for the next phase

IDLO Contacts

Thank you very much

Asela Kalugampitiya – akalugampitiya@idlo.int

International Development Law OrganizationRome, Italy

www.idlo.int/healthlaw