COMPASS Community Participation for Action in the Social Sector May 2004 – August 2009 an Integrated Approach for Maximizing Results in the Social Sector
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COMPASS Community Participation for Action in the Social Sector May 2004 – August 2009 An integrated approach for maximizing results in the social sector End-of-Project Report Submitted to the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) September 30, 2009 Page | 1 Table of Contents EXECUTIVE SUMMARY ......................................................................................................................... 4 INTRODUCTION ....................................................................................................................................... 6 SECTION I: ESTABLISHING THE CONTEXT ..................................................................................... 6 Social Sector Indicators - Education .................................................................................................... 7 Social Sector Indicators - Reproductive Health ................................................................................... 7 Social Sector Indicators - Child health ................................................................................................. 8 The education sector in Nigeria ........................................................................................................... 8 The health sector in Nigeria................................................................................................................. 9 SECTION II: THE COMPASS PROJECT .............................................................................................. 10 Goal, Vision, Objectives, Outcomes ................................................................................................... 11 Geographic coverage .......................................................................................................................... 11 SECTION III: OVERVIEW ...................................................................................................................... 13 The Consortium ..................................................................................................................................... 13 Technical Components and Key Strategies ........................................................................................... 14 A. Education ......................................................................................................................................... 14 B. Child Survival .................................................................................................................................. 15 C. Family Planning/Reproductive Health .............................................................................................. 16 D. Polio Eradication ............................................................................................................................. 17 F. Community Mobilization .................................................................................................................. 17 G. Policy & Advocacy ........................................................................................................................... 18 H. Public Private Partnerships .............................................................................................................. 18 I. Institutional Capacity Building ........................................................................................................... 19 J. Sub-grants ........................................................................................................................................ 20 E. OVC ................................................................................................................................................ 20 Process and Methodology ...................................................................................................................... 21 Monitoring & Evaluation and Reporting .............................................................................................. 21 Establishing Baselines ........................................................................................................................ 23 Major Baseline Data ........................................................................................................................... 23 SECTION IV: PROGRAM ACHIEVEMENTS AND RESULTS .......................................................... 25 Page | 2 Final End of Project Evaluation ......................................................................................................... 32 Achievements ...................................................................................................................................... 33 SECTION VI: COLLABORATION AND PARTNERSHIPS FOR RESULTS ..................................... 43 NATIONAL-LEVEL ............................................................................................................................. 43 ZONAL LEVEL ..................................................................................................................................... 45 STATE-LEVEL ..................................................................................................................................... 45 Local Government –Level ...................................................................................................................... 47 Community-Level ................................................................................................................................... 48 SECTION VII: MANAGEMENT AND ADMINISTRATIVE STRUCTURE ..................................... 51 Management and administrative Structure ........................................................................................... 51 SECTION VII: FINANCIAL SUMMARIES ........................................................................................... 53 SECTION VIII: PROJECT CLOSE-OUT ACTIVITIES........................................................................ 55 SECTION IX: LESSONS LEARNT, CHALLENGES, CHANGES, OPPORTUNITIES, SUSTAINABILITY ................................................................................................................................... 56 CHALLENGES AND LESSONS LEARNT......................................................................................... 56 KEY PROJECT CHANGES .................................................................................................................. 58 OPPORTUNITIES ................................................................................................................................ 59 SUSTAINABILITY ............................................................................................................................... 61 SECTION X: RECOMMENDATIONS FOR FUTURE PROGRAMS ................................................. 63 RECOMMENDATIONS....................................................................................................................... 63 CONCLUSION ...................................................................................................................................... 64 ANNEX ...................................................................................................................................................... 65 ABBREVIATIONS AND ACRONYMS ...................................................... Error! Bookmark not defined. Page | 3 EXECUTIVE SUMMARY This End-of-COMPASS Project Report offers the United States Agency for International Development (USAID)/Nigeria Mission, the Government of Nigeria, national, international developmental stakeholders and NGO partners a composite roadmap on the implementation stages and milestones of the Project. It highlights implementation context, core components and strategic approaches, key achievements, challenges, lessons learned and recommendations for future programs. The report is divided into ten sections – Establishing the Context, The COMPASS Project, Overview, Program Achievements and Results, Collaboration and Partnerships for Results, Management and Administrative Structure, Financial Summaries, Project Close-out Activities, Lessons Learned, Challenges, Changes, Opportunities, Sustainability, and Recommendations for Future Programs. The Community Participation for Action in the Social Sector (COMPASS) Project was implemented under Cooperative Agreement No. 620-A-00-04-00125-00 between Pathfinder International and USAID. The Project was launched in 2004 to expand participation, ownership and use of healthcare and education sector services to the community level in four states (Bauchi, Lagos, Kano and Nasarawa) and the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) of Nigeria over a period of five years. COMPASS represented a new exciting scale of investment by USAID in Nigeria, with programming that stimulated and promoted the integration of education and health development across all project activities at all levels. While the undertaking was challenging, the Project recorded major accomplishments. The impacts at the community levels were especially unique and expanded the Mission’s on-going attempts towards integration that was not present before. From its inception, the COMPASS Project made extensive investments in manpower and organizational development through hiring and establishing operational field offices in the project states. Equally, rigorous attempts were made to nurture various partnerships and relationships especially between national ministries and state and local government leaders,