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