1. 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

2. 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] Founded & Registered 1991 Became operational 1996 Member of ChildFund Alliance 2002

3. 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…

4. ZAMBIA (FEB 07 & JAN 2010)  MCH Project  MCH– 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

6. Literary Review; DFID, Global Fund, World Bank, IFAD, USAID, CIVICUS, MDF Articles; Laurence Taylor, Esther Mehbrahtu What is M&E?  Indicators and Objectives  PALS; Logframe Tables  How does M&E work outside of theory?

8. 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.

9.  Progress and Impact  Evidence of Reporting Issues in Every Project  Two Systems of Reporting; Block Grant And Individual Project  Some targets not yet met Cultural Issues; Succession Plans Business Operation Behavioural Changes Reporting Issues

10. Assessment of M&E Systems in the Field Essential  Communication  Relevance of M&E  Cultural and Physical Theory Based System of Reporting – Performance in Practice

11. Measuring 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