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Methodology of the Endline Study
To conduct the Endline study, following qualitative and quantitative methodologies will be adopted but should not be limited to:
- Document review on the situation of adolescents and young people’s sexual reproductive health and rights, and well-being in the districts; including review of the Project Document, Baseline survey report and the Mid-Term Review report.
- Survey, (by using mobile phones data collection apps such as ODK, KoboCollect or online forms as applicable); for randomly selected project communities in the district with a statistically representative number of direct and indirect beneficiaries.
- Key Informant Interviews (KIIs), stakeholder interviews and any other participatory methods;
- Focus Group Discussions (FGDs) with the project target groups, especially adolescents and young people purposely covering teenage mothers and young girls;
- Records and administrative data review at the facilities and administrative offices;
- Direct observation, as a compliment.
In addition, the end line study will assess the relevance, coherence, effectiveness, efficiency, impact and sustainability of the project, based on the OECD-DAC Evaluation Criteria. Some examples of proposed preliminary evaluation questions can be:
- Relevance
- To what extent is the project adapted to: (i) the needs of diverse populations, including the needs of vulnerable and marginalized groups (e.g. young people and women with disabilities, with HIV, and/or from vulnerable categories of economic status, etc.); (ii) national development strategies and policies; (iii) the strategic direction and objectives of UNFPA and the partners? This is to be built on the findings and the recommendations from the project’s Mid-Term Review.
- To what extent has the project been able to respond to changes in national needs and priorities, including those of vulnerable or marginalized groups, or to shifts caused by crisis or major political changes?
- To what extent has the project ensured that the varied needs of vulnerable and marginalized populations, including adolescents and youth, those with disabilities and indigenous communities, have been taken into account in both the planning and implementation of the project?
- Coherence
- To what extent has the project leveraged strategic partnerships with national, local and grassroots organizations (e.g. women’s rights activists, youth-led groups, advocacy groups of people with disabilities) to address its project goal to improve the sexual and reproductive health and rights and gender inequalities of young people in the target districts?
- Effectiveness
- To what extent have the interventions supported by the project delivered outputs and contributed to the achievement of the outcomes of the project?
- To what extent has the project achieved intended outputs and outcomes of the project, and unintended results if any?
- To what extent has the project successfully integrated human rights, gender perspectives and disability inclusion in the design, implementation and monitoring of the country programme?
- To what extent has the project brought changes in knowledge, attitudes, and practices for the targeted populations and communities related to the project goals and objectives?
- Efficiency
- To what extent has the project made good use of its human, financial and administrative resources, and used a set of appropriate policies, procedures and tools to pursue the achievement of the outcomes defined in the county programme?
- To what extent did the project consider value for money in the interventions implemented under the project? What percentage was committed to program implementation and operation costs?
- What are the perspectives of the targeted populations on the project implementation modality? Any feedback on the harmonization of various activities implemented by different implementing partners?
- Impact
- What impactful difference has the project interventions made? This should look into the results beyond the achievement of the project indicators, but contributing to the change of national indicators on SRHR and youth, as well as on the lives of the targeted populations.
- Sustainability
- To what extent has the project been able to support the partners, stakeholders and rights-holders (notably, women, adolescents and youth) in developing capacities and establishing mechanisms to ensure the durability of effects?
- Do the interventions under the project – including i) those that are parts of the implementation of the government policies and priorities, and ii) those that were independently implemented by the Implementing Partners respectively – have sustainability mechanisms in place? This includes looking into: i) the continued enrollment of the girls who benefitted from the bursary intervention, ii) follow-ups of the adolescents who participated in the Youth and Junior Farmer Field and Life Schools (JFFLS) and the gainedeconomic status of them, iii) continuation or scale-ups of the mentorship as well as iv) making of sanitary pads, and so on.
- Are there interventions with concrete sustainability plans by the government? If yes, to what extent? If not, what were the reasons and any bottlenecks/challenges faced?
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