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End of project evaluation – GIZ BACKUP Initiative

• aca
• April 27, 2015

The Africa Capacity Alliance (ACA)/Regional AIDS Training Network (RATN), with funding from the GIZ BACKUP initiative, implemented a project titled “Institutional Strengthening in Results Based Management (RBM[1]) for MARPs-focused CSOs in Kenya”. This was a one-year 100,000 Euros project implemented in three phases between April 2014 and March 2015. The main objective of the project was to strengthen the institutional capacities of MARPs-focused CSOs in Kenya. This was in consideration of RATN’s vision that a well-capacitated and effective community of CSOs would help support underserved populations to improve their health outcomes.

The expected outputs of the project were:

1. MARPs-focused CSOs strengthened in Results-Based Management (institutional strengthening).
2. MARPs-focused CSOs provided with mentored grants and implemented innovative projects.
3. MARPs-focused CSO have improved linkages among themselves and other relevant stakeholders (stakeholder engagement).

Five MARPs-focused CSOs applied for and received funding to participate in this institutional strengthening project. These were:

1. Bar Hostess Empowerment Support Program (BHESP) in Nairobi. This CSO targets bar hostesses, sex workers and MSM.
2. Community Health Africa Trust (CHAT) in Nanyuki. This CSO targets sex workers.
3. Neighbours in Action-Kenya (NIAK) in Burnt Forest (Eldoret). This CSO targets sex workers.
4. Mothers Delight Moments (MDM) in Mombasa. This CSO targets injecting drug users.
5. Hope Valley Family Institute (HVFI) in Nyahururu. This CSO targets motor cycle (bodaboda) operators.

In March 2015, an end-of-project evaluation was conducted to assess the progress made by the project in realizing the above-mentioned outputs. The objectives of the evaluation were:

1. To assess the project’s relevance, its implementation structure, and the results achieved in ensuring strengthened capacities of participating MARPs-focused CSOs.
2. To assess the extent to which the project goals and objectives were achieved.

• To assess the efficiency and effectiveness of project implementation.

1. To assess the sustainability of the achievements.
2. To identify any important lessons and emerging issues in programming and provide recommendations for future projects.

[1] Results based management is a management approach through which an organization ensures that all its processes, products and services contribute to achievement of the desired results (RATN grant proposal to GIZ).

To read more, download the report here:  End-of-project-Evaluation-Report-ACA-Agreement-no.-81173186.pdf (77 downloads )