End of Programme Evaluation Report - Promoting Child Rights in Cotton Farming Areas of Pakistan
“Promoting Child Rights in Cotton-Farming Areas of Pakistan” (CRCFA) was an IKEA Foundation (IKEAF) funded programme implemented by UNICEF Pakistan Country Office
Highlights
The primary focus of the CRCFA programme was to strengthen the realization of a number of child rights, with a focus on child vulnerabilities in six of Pakistan’s cotton-producing districts. For this purpose, the programme was designed using an integrated approach focusing on cross-cutting themes of social protection, child protection, education, health and water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH). This integrated multi-sectoral design was proposed in response to multi-faceted issues and factors which affect child rights and child protection services.
The end-of-programme evaluation was commissioned to evaluate the performance, key achievements, challenges and lessons learnt in order to assess how far the programme achieved its intended objectives based on criteria developed by the Organization for Economic Development’s Development Assistance Committee (OECD-DAC) criteria. For this purpose, the evaluators designed and carried out an unbiased and participatory evaluation where all the relevant stakeholders of the programme were consulted at each stage of the evaluation process (design, implementation, analysis and recommendations). As this is an end-of-programme evaluation, recommendations related to how integrated programmes should be implemented are a part of this report.
The primary audiences of the end-of-programme evaluation are IKEAF, UNICEF, implementing partners (IPs), and government partners. The evaluation findings, as stated, are based on the evidence collected from the field and provide the facts to all stakeholders of what worked well and what needs improvement. The lessons learnt, and recommendations provide a pathway to IKEAF, UNICEF, IPs and government partners for future programme implementation. Eventually this report will benefit the communities at large where it is expected that based on the recommendations made in the evaluation report, programmes will be designed according to strategies that work best for these communities.
