End Evaluation for Health and Community Development Program (HCDP)

Name of the project being evaluated: Health and Community Development Program (HCDP)

Project duration: Two (2) Years

Project funding source: Horyzon, Switzerland

Type of evaluation: End of the project evaluation (external)

Introduction:

The YWCA of Bangladesh is implementing a project in 213 peri urban, 54 wards of 6 Districts in Bangladesh with funding from Horyzon, Switzerland.

This project aimed to contribute to young women having safer, happier lives, with creating community awareness and improved health. This will be attained by supporting improvements in access quality healthcare systems and knowledge, increasing livelihoods opportunities of young women and improving gender relationships in the communities and reducing the impact of natural disasters.

 Project Overview:

The overall objective of the project is:  Young women and men in 213 peri urban areas within 7districts in Bangladesh (Birisiri, Dinajpur, Jashore, Khagrachari, Khulna, Gopalganj and Savar) have increased access to sexual and reproductive health (SRH) services and are able to exercise their reproductive health rights.

The specific objective is: 11599 young women and 4971 young men in 213 villages (in 7 districts) in Bangladesh will aware on their basic primary health as well as reproductive health.

The expected results of the project are as follows:

Result 1: Women and youth women are proactive to establish sexual and reproductive health rights (unitizing available services) and cascading relevant information to their community members.

Result 2: Young women and men and communities have increased knowledge in SRHR, primary health, nutrition, child care, safe birth, FP.

Result 3: Young women and men are engaged with IGA and benefited by obtaining input like capital, skills have an improved household income.

Result 4: Young women and men have increased entrepreneur skills.

Result 5: Woman and young woman are organized, developed and mobilized as social advocates for gender equality.

Result 6: Women and young woman are organized in groups and trained in social and political rights.

Result 7: Young people are proactive in the conservation process of environment through social education, awareness and collective actions.

Result 8: Strengthened network for joint actions on policy advocacy.

Result 9: Enhanced organizational capacity to effective work on identifies issues

Purpose of the Evaluation 

The purpose of this end of project evaluation is the following:

• Evaluate the effectiveness of the project to generate data about how well the project delivered benefits to the target population.

• Assess the impact made on direct beneficiaries, their families and communities and the YWCA Bangladesh and the process used to achieve these.

• Capture learning from the project (i.e. analyse what worked well and what worked less well and why) to guide YWCA Bangladesh and Horyzon in determining the effectiveness of the project and help guide future project development.