Exercise 3 - Monitoring, Evaluating and Reporting

Major assumptions

a) Disadvantaged teenage girls are more likely to have a poor sexual and reproductive health because they don’t have access to quality education and health services.
b) Gender inequity is a key factor that prevents teenage girls from exercising their sexual and reproductive rights because they are unable to negotiate with their male partners about safe sex practices.
c) Providing comprehensive sexuality education to teenage girls is an important prevention strategy to avoid unplanned/unwanted pregnancies, unsafe abortion practices, HIV and other sexually transmitted infections.

I want to learn:

- What prevents teenage girls from accessing contraceptive methods services?
- What other needs should be addressed so that teenage girls can exercise their sexual and reproductive rights?
- How could this workshop be improved?

Evaluation plan

Project title: I care, I enjoy, I decide
Project Manager: Cecilia García Ruiz

Purpose of evaluation: The purpose of the evaluation is to share the results of the project with the funder and report on how the money was spent (accountability). I also expect to determine how this workshop could be improved, which activities were better to encourage teenage girls’ learning, and whether the information provided was youth-friendly enough. I also want to learn which factors prevent adolescent women from accessing contraceptive methods and what other needs should be addressed so that they can improve their sexual and reproductive health.

Involvement of Stakeholders:

Beneficiaries – Before starting the workshop, beneficiaries will answer a questionnaire to assess their knowledge about sexual and reproductive health, rights and gender equality, and will be asked what they expect from the workshop. After each session, they will write down what they liked the most about that session and what can be improved. At the end of the workshop they will answer another questionnaire to determine whether they have increased their knowledge about sexual and reproductive health, rights, and gender equality. Focus groups and interviews will also be conducted.

Facilitators will be asked to write down a binnacle of each session and report on their activities. They will also be in charge of applying the questionnaires to the beneficiaries.

Cecilia Garcia (Project Manager) – I will monitor the activities of each team member, write partial and final reports, visit the facilitators in at least one of their sessions.

Responsible of evaluation – This person will be in charge of developing the content of the questionnaires and interviews. He/she will analyse the information.

Teachers or person responsible of the community centre – Focus groups and interviews will be conducted with these stakeholders to gather information about the impact of the workshop in the community.

Indicators of achievement

Objective: 100 teenage girls from marginalized areas in Mexico City attended a workshop on sexual and reproductive health, rights and gender equality. Therefore, they increased their knowledge about these topics, as well as the use of contraceptive methods.

Indicators:
- Number of teenage girls who successfully completed the workshop and increased their knowledge about sexual and reproductive health, rights and gender equality
- Number of teenage girls that have increased the use of contraceptive methods



Evaluation tools and techniques to be used: To gather quantitative data, a questionnaire will be developed to assess whether the beneficiaries have increased their knowledge about sexual and reproductive health, rights and gender equality. To gather statements, stories and experiences (qualitative information), focus groups and semi-structured interviews will be conducted. We will also ask the beneficiaries and the team members to provide feedback.

Baseline information required: Since we are expecting that the beneficiaries of this project increase their knowledge about the topics that will be addressed during the workshop, we need to know the type and amount of information they currently possess. That is why a diagnostic evaluation will be conducted before the beginning of the workshop to gather the aforementioned information.


Logistical & resource considerations:

Time – Some funders ask for partial reports to monitor the progress of the project. We expect to submit a mid-term report to share what were the immediate outcomes of the workshop (June/July 2011). Then the final report will be presented after analysing the information gathered during the follow- up stage (December 2011).

Money – Costs will include the material used for evaluation (paper, pencils, pens, etc.), transportation expenses, and money to buy some food for the participants of the focus groups.

People – I will be supervising the evaluation process, but all the team members will participate. Facilitators will compile the information; evaluation team will develop tools to conduct the evaluation and analyze the information; beneficiaries and other stakeholders will provide the required information.

Approach to the analysis of information: The responsible of evaluation and his/her team will be in charge of analysing the information that was gathered before, during and after the workshop, and during the follow-up stage. This person will provide the guidelines to conduct this evaluation. Results will be compared with the baseline information and we will use the quantitative and qualitative data to do a cross check analysis to determine whether the results are consistent or not.

Reporting and communication of outcomes / learning: The final report will be presented to the funder, partners and board of directors. We also expect to share our experiences with other youth-led organizations that would like to facilitate workshops like this. By communicating the outcomes of this project we expect to obtain further funding and establish more strategic partnerships. I will do this by using different social networks (Facebook, twitter, etc.), sending newsletters, sharing videos through Youtoube, or maybe by presenting the results in a conference, forum, etc.