BREAKING BARRIERS PROJECT: KENYA, UGANDA AND ZAMBIA END-TERM EVALUATION REPORT MAY 2010 UPWARD BOUND COMPANY LIMITED Marist Road, Karen, P.O. Box 79747, Nairobi Tel 254 20 3594276 email:[email protected] TABLE OF CONTENTS TABLE OF CONTENTS.......................................................................................................... ii LIST OF BOXES................................................................................................................... iv LIST OF FIGURES................................................................................................................ iv LIST OF TABLES.................................................................................................................. iv ACKNOWLEDGEMENT ......................................................................................................... v ABBREVIATIONS ................................................................................................................. vi DEFINITIONS....................................................................................................................... ix EXECUTIVE SUMMARY ........................................................................................................ x 1.0 BACKGROUND......................................................................................................... 1 1.1 BREAKING BARRIERS PROJECT........................................................................... 1 1.2 PEPFAR................................................................................................................. 3 2.0 METHODOLOGY....................................................................................................... 5 3.0 FINDINGS AND DISCUSSION.................................................................................... 9 3.1 ALIGNMENT TO GLOBAL DEVELOPMENT GOALS ................................................. 9 3.2 ALIGNMENT TO NATIONAL GOVERNMENT POLICIES ........................................... 9 3.3 ADDRESSING STRUCTURAL CAUSES OF POVERTY........................................... 12 3.4 ADDRESSING GENDER INEQUALITY................................................................... 13 3.5 ENTRY AND IDENTIFICATION PROCESS............................................................. 14 3.6 EFFICIENCY ........................................................................................................ 15 3.7 PARTNERSHIPS .................................................................................................. 20 3.8 EFFECTIVENESS AND OUTCOMES ..................................................................... 23 ii Breaking Barriers Project End-Term Evaluation Report, May 2010 ub 3.9 LEARNING, INNOVATION, UP SCALING AND REPLICATION................................. 29 3.10 ACCOUNTABILITY ............................................................................................... 31 3.11 SUSTAINABILITY ................................................................................................. 31 3.12 PROGRAM QUALITY............................................................................................ 32 3.13 FACTORS CONTRIBUTING TO BB SUCCESS....................................................... 40 3.14 CHALLENGES...................................................................................................... 42 4.0 RECOMMENDATIONS ............................................................................................ 44 5.0 CONCLUSIONS ...................................................................................................... 45 6.0 APPENDICES ......................................................................................................... 47 6.1 APPENDIX I: TERMS OF REFERENCE.................................................................. 47 6.2 APPENDIX II: TOOLS............................................................................................ 49 6.3 APPENDIX III – BB PROJECT END TERM EVALUATION - ITINERARY AND CALENDAR OF EVENTS ................................................................................................. 56 iii Breaking Barriers Project End-Term Evaluation Report, May 2010 ub LIST OF BOXES Box 1: Law and Policies: The Uganda Experience..........................................................................11 Box 2: Stigma and Discrimination associated with HIV and AIDS...................................................13 Box 3: Changing lives .....................................................................................................................28 Box 4: Economic Challenges and Coping Strategies......................................................................34 Box 5: Levels of Psychosocial Support ...........................................................................................35 Box 6: Psychosocial support principles...........................................................................................36 LIST OF FIGURES Figure 1: Epidemic curves for HIV, AIDS and Orphans.................................................................... 1 Figure 2: Age distribution of OVC interviewed.................................................................................. 6 Figure 3: Breaking Barriers Project Organizational Structure..........................................................16 Figure 4: Breaking Barriers Project and the Circle of Hope.............................................................21 Figure 5: Percentage of OVC attending school...............................................................................24 Figure 6: Percentage of OVC living in institutions ...........................................................................25 Figure 7: Advocacy efforts by OVC for better services....................................................................27 LIST OF TABLES Table 1: Distribution of respondents................................................................................................. 5 Table 2: Breakdown served OVC by age......................................................................................... 5 Table 3: Utilization of data collection tools ....................................................................................... 6 Table 4: Breaking Barriers expenditure...........................................................................................17 Table 5: Breaking Barriers financial cost per OVC served ..............................................................19 Table 6: Breaking Barriers expenditure variances...........................................................................20 Table 7: OVC served per category of service..................................................................................23 Table 8: Progress tracking table for OVC served............................................................................28 Table 9: Framework for analyzing the socioeconomic impact of HIV and AIDS on orphans...........33 Table 10: Evaluating BB against PEPFAR best practice.................................................................37 iv Breaking Barriers Project End-Term Evaluation Report, May 2010 ub ACKNOWLEDGEMENT This end-tem evaluation was commissioned by Plan International Kenya to Upward Bound Company Ltd, a firm of professional consultants and researchers based in Nairobi. Many individuals, children and institutions greatly benefited the evaluation by setting aside time to share their perspectives. Were it not for their participation and sacrifice, this report would not have been possible. Upward Bound Company Ltd. therefore wishes to acknowledge their support and input. We thank Breaking Barriers Regional Manager, Bwibo Adieri, Plan USA Technical Advisor in- charge of the Breaking Barriers project, Laban Tsuma, and the Breaking Barriers team in Kenya, Uganda and Zambia for the administrative and technical support they offered during the course of the evaluation. We also thank the Strategic Program Support Manager, Samual Musyoki, Corporate Planning Monitoring and Evaluation Manager, Benson King’oo, and Corporate Evaluation and Monitoring Coordinator, Stephen Okoth, all of Plan International Kenya. We are especially indebted to them for sharing an overview of the project and for offering invaluable insights. We are also indebted to the current and former staff of Plan in Kenya, Uganda and Zambia; Save the Children in Uganda; Inter-Religious Council of Kenya; Inter-Religious Council of Uganda; St. Johns’ Community Centre; Kisumu Urban Apostolic Program (KUAP), Rang’ala; USAID in Kenya, Uganda and Zambia; ZINGO; and a host of Breaking Barriers partners. We also acknowledge the cooperation and views: Government officials serving in the areas we visited who went out of their way to avail useful data and perspectives; Community Based Organizations’ leaders and their members who discussed with us their experiences of working with the BB project; Community leaders, men and women, the youth, people living with disabilities as well as members of other disadvantaged groups who provided information that enriched this evaluation report; The children who volunteered to share with the evaluators on the work done by the Breaking Barriers project and its impact on their lives; Many others who, though not mentioned here by name, contributed to the success of this evaluation. Last, and by no means least, we thank Daniel Masyuki, Florence Juma, Jeremiah Mbewe, Lydia Amoit, Zipporah Mashini and Munaweza