In collaboration with other projects, doners, national and international NGOs Al-Thuraya conducts studies, training and capacity building to:
• Assess the progress of the program’s implementation, the relevance and effectiveness of the interventions, and sustainability efforts to date.
• Determine whether projects are on track to meet its goals.
• Summarize lessons learned to date, and recommend any changes to projects components necessary to ensure projects are on track to meet the objectives.
• Prepare evaluation reports with action oriented, practical and specific recommendations with defined responsibility for the action.
Objectives and questions on evaluation are to be prepared following the OECD/DAC criteria:
- RELEVANCE
Check if the intervention conducted in line with local needs and priorities of the key stakeholders and the beneficiaries in the one hand and the conformity of the interventions with donors and policies of the implemented organizations in the other hand.
- EFFECTIVENESS
Check the extent to which the current intervention has achieved its purpose, or whether this can be expected to happen on the basis of the outputs.
- EFFICIENCY
To check the qualitative and quantitative outputs achieved as a result of inputs.
- COVERAGE
The need to reach major population groups facing life-threatening risk wherever they are.
- COORDINATION
Activities or tasks conducted that enabled the response to be implemented in liaison with other organizations or governing bodies effectively.
- SUSTAINABILITY
Ensure that activities of a short-term emergency nature are carried out in a context that takes longer-term and interconnected problems into account.
By conducting baseline survey for humanitarian food security intervention, we focus on following scores:
1. Household Food consumption score (FCS).
2. Household dietary diversity score (HDDS).
3. Household Hunger Scale (HHS) .
4. Food security and Livelihood Coping strategies index (livelihood/asset depletion measures) (CSI) .
5. Household demographic characteristics (specifically focusing on multiple levels of vulnerability including gender, disability, socio-economic status as well as average number of HHs members) .
6. Main sources of income.
7. Household’s main source of food.