Evaluation of the Project Protecting and Improving Household Food Security and Nutrition in HIV/AIDS Affected Areas in Manica and Sofala Provinces Final Report
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OFFICE OF EVALUATION Project evaluation series Evaluation of the project Protecting and Improving Household Food Security and Nutrition in HIV/AIDS Affected Areas in Manica and Sofala Provinces Final Report July 2015 PROJECT EVALUATION SERIES Evaluation of the project Protecting and Improving Household Food Security and Nutrition in HIV/AIDS Affected Areas in Manica and Sofala Provinces FINAL Report FOOD AND AGRICULTURE ORGANIZATION OF THE UNITED NATIONS OFFICE OF EVALUATION July 2015 i Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations Office of Evaluation (OED) This report is available in electronic format at: http://www.fao.org/evaluation The designations employed and the presentation of material in this information product do not imply the expression of any opinion whatsoever on the part of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) concerning the legal or development status of any country, territory, city or area or of its authorities, or concerning the delimitation of its frontiers or boundaries. 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All requests for translation and adaptation rights, and for resale and other commercial use rights should be made via www.fao.org/contact-us/licence-request or addressed to [email protected]. For further information on this report, please contact: Director, Office of Evaluation (OED) Food and Agriculture Organization Viale delle Terme di Caracalla 1, 00153 Rome Italy Email: [email protected] GCP/MOZ/079/BEL ii Evaluation of Protecting and Improving Household Food Security in Manica and Sofala Contents Acknowledgements ..................................................................................................................................... v Acronyms and abbreviations .................................................................................................................... vi Executive summary ............................................................................................................... 1 1. Background and purpose of the evaluation ............................................................ 8 1.1 Methodology of the evaluation ................................................................................. 8 2. Context of the project .....................................................................................................11 3. Analysis of project’s concept and design ..................................................................13 3.1 Project’s concept and logic model ............................................................................13 3.2 Project design .................................................................................................................15 4. Analysis of the implementation process ..................................................................17 4.1 Institutional arrangements .........................................................................................17 4.2 Project Management ....................................................................................................18 4.3 Financial resources management ............................................................................ 23 5. Analysis by evaluation criteria ..................................................................................... 27 5.1 Relevance .........................................................................................................................27 5.2 Effectiveness ...................................................................................................................28 5.3 Efficiency ..........................................................................................................................41 5.4 Sustainability ..................................................................................................................45 5.5 Impact .............................................................................................................................. 46 5.6 Other evaluation criteria .............................................................................................47 6. Conclusions and recommendations ...........................................................................51 6.1 Conclusions ......................................................................................................................51 6.2 Recommendations ........................................................................................................53 iii Evaluation of Protecting and Improving Household Food Security in Manica and Sofala Tables and figures Tables Table 1. Number of persons interviewed by evaluation team ............................... 9 Table 2. Distance (in Km) from provincial capitals to project districts ...................18 Table 3. Summary of backstopping missions ............................................................... 22 Table 4. Total project budget and funds delivery ....................................................... 23 Table 5. Actual project budget and delivery ................................................................ 23 Table 6. Delivery rate per budget line .............................................................................26 Table 7. Training of trainers (ToT) .................................................................................... 29 Table 8. Refresher training ................................................................................................ 29 Table 9. FFS groups established by the project ........................................................... 30 Table 10. Community based natural resources committees in the 4 project districts ................................................................................................................................... 34 Table 11. Training courses provided by the Project by component ....................... 40 Table 12. Disaggregated rates in project allocations ..................................................42 Figures Figure 1. Project logframe result chain ...........................................................................14 Figure 2. Timeline of project team contracts ............................................................... 20 Figure 3. Actual expenditures by project budget line ................................................24 Figure 4. Allocation of project funds by budget line (ProDoc, Budget Revision –BR- and real expenditures) ..............................................................................25 Figure 4. Delivery rate by component .............................................................................43 iv Evaluation of Protecting and Improving Household Food Security in Manica and Sofala Acknowledgements The evaluation team would like to thank all the people involved in preparing and facilitating this evaluation. We wish to thank representatives of all the stakeholders we met, including the staff of several line ministries of the Government of Mozambique, the Belgian Cooperation and organizations of the civil society, for their time and information. In particular, we would like to thank FAO Mozambique, the Project Team and staff of other FAO projects in the region for their support, time and information. We are very grateful especially to all the beneficiaries in the various communities we visited for sharing with us their perceptions and insights about the Project. Composition of the evaluation team Evaluation team Carmen Lahoz, Team Leader and Food Security Expert Orlando Gemo, Team Member and FFS Expert FAO Office of Evaluation Raquel Cabello, Evaluation Manager v Evaluation of Protecting and Improving Household Food Security in Manica and Sofala Acronyms and abbreviations BR Budget Revision BSF Belgium Survival Fund BTO Backstopping Technical Officer CBNRM Community-Based Natural Resource Management CBO Community Based Organisation CNCS National AIDS Council DDS District Directorate of Health DPA Provincial Directorate of Agriculture DPE Provincial Directorate of Education DPS Provincial Directorate of Health ESAN II National Food Security and Nutrition Strategy ET Evaluation Team ETD District Technical Team FAO Food and Agriculture Organization FBO Faith Based Organization FFS Farmer Field School FPMIS Field Programme Management Information System FSN Food Security & Nutrition GDP Gross Domestic Product GoM Government of Mozambique JFFLS Junior Farm Field and Life School LOA Letter of Agreement LTO Lead Technical Officer M&E Monitoring & Evaluation MDG Millennium Development Goal MEC Ministry of Education MINAG Ministry of Agriculture MISAU Ministry of Health MMAS Ministry for Women and Social Affairs NGO Non-Governmental Organisation NRMC