Assignment Reports
The South Sudan Education Programme (SSEP) is a three year project that started in March 2011. It is intended that the programme will provide access for an additional 38,000 children to schools every year. Implementation of the programme is divided into two components. One component is the construction of 37 primary and 4 secondary schools… Read more
The UK Government is placing a high priority on securing value for money for aid expenditure and it is critically important for DFID to demonstrate the results and impact from the major bilateral development programmes. DFID Mozambique therefore wants to assess the performance and results from its past investments in Health, HIV and AIDS and… Read more
This is the second annual review of the second phase of DFID’s grant to HERFON and was commissioned by DFID to review the progress made since August 2010. The review was undertaken 05-16 September 2011. The report is set out in the following sections: Progress against the logframe Impact monitoring – answering the “so what”… Read more
The proposed intervention is to finalise construction of 14 County Education Centres (CECs) such that they become operational. The CECs will predominantly be used for the in-service training of teachers, although they will eventually also be used for government training for other sectors, such as health and agriculture. They will also potentially be used by… Read more
The objectives of the review were to revise the programme log frame to reflect the outcome of the 2011 Bilateral AIDS Review decision not to continue with the Total War on AIDS component; to review the progress towards milestones and targets and make recommendations on any changes that should be made as the programme enters… Read more
This document reviews progress with the implementation of a new model for Primary Health Care in the Eastern Cape Province. It finds the Eastern Cape Department of Health (ECDoH) has embraced global best practice and sought to give effect to the national public healthcare policy (PHC) policy and the inclusion of maternal, child and women’s… Read more
PRRINN-MNCH (Programme for reviving routine immunisation in Northern Nigeria – maternal, newborn and child health) is a six-year health programme working across four states in Northern Nigeria. The evaluation team conducted site visits to health facilities and medical stores and met with government officials, midwives, community health workers, primary beneficiaries and other stakeholders. Key findings… Read more
In terms of the specific targets set in the Education Sector Support Programme, the following results have been observed: net enrolment in Primary has increased but remains below target Gross Enrolment Rate (GER) remains high but has fallen markedly over the period Primary completion rates have exceeded expectation dropout rates have fallen but remain high… Read more
The Partnership for Transforming Health Systems 2 (PATHS2) was launched in August 2008 as the health sector component of DFID’s suite of state led programmes (SLPs). PATHS2 aims to build on and consolidate the gains of PATHS1 and the complimentary DFID funded Health Commodities Programme (HCP). PATHS2 shares with other SLPs, the goal of “Nigeria’s… Read more
This review is of the 2nd year of work of the UK’s Department for International Development (DFID) support to the national malaria programme (SuNMaP). The goal of the support is ‘to achieve progress towards the health Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) in Nigeria’. Its purpose is ‘to strengthen delivery of Nigeria’s national malaria control effort’. This… Read more
This review is a DFID annual review of two projects that have been combined: the DFID-funded Programme for Reviving Routine Immunisation in Northern Nigeria (PRRINN) project and the Norwegian-funded Maternal, Neonatal, and Child Health (MNCH) project. Particular successes include: the basket fund in Zamfara state demonstrating that funds can be transparently managed there the appreciation… Read more