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QUARTERLY PERFORMANCE REPORT FY2017, THIRD QUARTER REPORT APRIL – JUNE 2017 USAID/UGANDA PERFORMANCE AND IMPACT EVALUATION FOR LITERACY ACHIEVEMENT AND RETENTION ACTIVITY (LARA) Contract No. AID-617-C-16-00003 This publication was produced for review by the United States Agency for International Development. It was prepared by NORC at the University of Chicago. The authors’ views expressed in this publication do not necessarily reflect the views of the United States Agency for International Development or the United States Government. AID/UGANDA PERFORMANCE AND IMPACT EVALUATION FOR LITERACY ACHIEVEMENT AND RETENTION ACTIVITY (LARA) QUARTERLY PERFORMANCE REPORT FY2017, THIRD QUARTER REPORT APRIL – JUNE 2017 Prepared under Contract No.: AID-617-C-16-00003 July 31, 2017 (Revised October 12, 2017) Submitted to: USAID/Uganda Submitted by: NORC at the University of Chicago Attention: Ritu Nayyar-Stone [email protected] Phone:+1-301-634-9538 DISCLAIMER The authors’ views expressed in this publication do not necessarily reflect the views of the United States Agency for International Development or the United States Government. Uganda LARA – AID Contract No. AID-617-C-16-00003 TABLE OF CONTENTS USAID/UGANDA PERFORMANCE AND IMPACT EVALUATION FOR LITERACY ACHIEVEMENT AND RETENTION ACTIVITY (LARA) ..................................................................................... 0 AID/UGANDA PERFORMANCE AND IMPACT EVALUATION FOR LITERACY ACHIEVEMENT AND RETENTION ACTIVITY (LARA) ..................................................................................... 0 QUARTERLY PERFORMANCE REPORT ................................................................................ 0 FY2017, THIRD QUARTER REPORT ..................................................................................... 0 APRIL – JUNE 2017 ............................................................................................................ 0 Table of Contents ...................................................................................................................... i ACRONYMS .............................................................................................................................. ii INTRODUCTION ....................................................................................................................... 3 IMPACT EVALUATION ACTIVITIES ............................................................................................. 4 UPDATE ON IMPACT EVALUATION ACTIVITIES .............................................................................. 4 MAJOR ACCOMPLISHMENTS AND CHALLENGES OF PAST QUARTER ............................................ 7 MAJOR ISSUES THAT NEED TO BE RESOLVED ................................................................................ 8 PERFORMANCE EVALUATION ACTIVITIES .................................................................................. 9 UPDATE ON PERFORMANCE EVALUATION ACTIVITIES .................................................................. 9 MAJOR ACCOMPLISHMENTS AND CHALLENGES OF PAST QUARTER ............................................ 9 MAJOR ISSUES THAT NEED TO BE RESOLVED ................................................................................ 9 P&IE PLANNED ACTIVITIES FOR NEXT quarter ........................................................................... 9 ANNEX A: BASELINE DATA COLLECTION ANNEX B: Memo Update on LARA Performance & Impact Evaluation Child Referral Procedures and Initial Feedback from District Child Protection Officials ANNEX C: BASELINE DATA COLLECTION ENUMERATOR TRAINING PLAN QUARTERLY PERFORMANCE REPORT 2017 QPR 3 i Uganda LARA – AID Contract No. AID-617-C-16-00003 ACRONYMS CDO Community Development Officer CSR Center for Social Research EGR Early Grade Reading EGRA Early Grade Reading Assessment FGDs Focal Group Discussions FY Fiscal Year IE Impact Evaluation IP Implementing Partner IRB Institutional Review Board KIIs Key Informant Interviews MoES Ministry of Education and Sports NORC NORC at the University of Chicago NCST National Council for Science and Technology P&IE Performance and Impact Evaluation PE Performance Evaluation RTI Research Triangle Institute RWI Research World International SRGBV School-Related Gender-Based Violence STS School-to-School TASO The AIDS Support Organization ToT Training of Trainers USAID United State Agency for International Development QUARTERLY PERFORMANCE REPORT 2017 QPR 3 ii Uganda LARA – AID Contract No. AID-617-C-16-00003 INTRODUCTION NORC at the University of Chicago (NORC), in partnership with subcontractor Panagora Group, is pleased to submit this Quarterly Performance Report covering the period April - June 2017 under the USAID/Uganda Performance and Impact Evaluation (P&IE) of the 5-year Literacy Achievement and Retention Activity (LARA) in Uganda. LARA is a 5-year (April 7, 2015 to April 6, 2020) USAID-funded initiative to improve reading skills for 1.3 million learners in 28 districts throughout Uganda. The project, which is being implemented by Research Triangle Institute (RTI) International is designed to support the Ministry of Education and Sports (MoES) - Uganda, in its efforts to improve early grade reading (EGR) and retention. LARA has two main objectives: Result 1 (R1) focuses on strengthening the capacity of MOES and other educational stakeholders to deliver EGR. To this end, the activity focuses on improved reading skills in three local languages (Luganda, Runyoro-Rutooro, and Runyankore-Rukiga) and English for early primary grade learners P1-4. Result 2 (R2) focuses on promoting a safer primary school learning environment to prevent and reduce incidents of school-related gender based violence (SRGBV). The activity hypothesizes that reducing SRGBV will increase learners' retention because they will be able to focus on their lessons and feel secure in their learning environment, thereby improving their ability to learn to read. To realize these objectives, the activity focuses its efforts on systemic capacity building of the education system, school-level support, and community- and household-level support and participation. The Uganda LARA P&IE activity(April 2016 - April 2021) has two objectives: (1) to assess the impact of LARA on learners’ literacy skills and retention rates; and (2) to assess the performance of LARA in terms of project management, learning, design, implementation, results, and sustainability. During this quarter LARA P&IE undertook the following key activities. QUARTERLY PERFORMANCE REPORT 2017 QTR 3 | 3 Uganda LARA – AID Contract No. AID-617-C-16-00003 IMPACT EVALUATION ACTIVITIES UPDATE ON IMPACT EVALUATION ACTIVITIES Data Collection for SRGBV Field work related to the SRGBV component of the evaluation was completed by the local data collection firm, Centre for Social Research (CSR), between April 3rd and April 19th 2017. The survey field teams visited 80 schools in 11 districts. The focus group discussion teams visited 4 schools. Officials from The AIDS Support Organization (TASO) institutional review board visited the CSR team on April 12-13th, 2017 to observe data collection procedures. The number of completed interviews is outlined in the report submitted for baseline data collection (deliverable 6; see appendix A) on May 23, 2017. Since data was collected via tablets it enabled daily uploads of collected data, quick verification and analysis of issues/problem solving in real time while in the field. Following data collection CSR required a short time to undertake data quality review, before transmission to NORC for further quality review and then analysis. The data verification process included cross-checking the interview caseload numbers as reported by the field team through paper tracking sheets to the caseload numbers found in the Nfield data management server. NORC and CSR found some discrepancies between the two sets of reported caseload numbers, such as cases reported by the tracking sheets that were not found in the data and interview cases that were only partially complete. Each discrepancy was followed up with by the data manager at CSR to the field team, to investigate the issue. Some solutions found for these issues included re-syncing of tablets to recover cases not yet sent to the Nfield data server and noting reasons for partial completes such as respondent illness or fatigue. Data Cleaning and Analysis of EGR Data Research World International (RWI) completed data collection for EGR by March 29th 2017 and therefore the first half of the previous quarter focused on data quality review and analysis of the EGR data. The data quality review process conducted by School-to-School International (EGRA and learner survey) and NORC (teacher and head teacher surveys) included investigating any cases of missing data for critical values and any values considered to be out-of-range, as well as reading comments left by the enumerator informing of QUARTERLY PERFORMANCE REPORT 2017 QTR 3 | 4 Uganda LARA – AID Contract No. AID-617-C-16-00003 unusual situations that affected the data collection. Some cases found minor malfunctions of the Tangerine software resulting in a skipped section or mis-entry of an enumerator resulting in inconsistent data points. Child Protection Referral Follow-up and Reporting Twenty-four male and female psychosocial counselors accompanied the data collection teams during baseline data collection from April 3 to April 9, 2017, to be available to provide counseling to children who disclosed SRGBV victimization,

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