The objective is to conduct an independent evaluation of the model and services provided by the Child Advocacy Centers (CACs) for children victims of violence and their families, established with UNICEF support in three regions.
The evaluation is both formative and summative in nature - the overall evaluation should bring an understanding and improvement of the process and also on whether the model works.
The specific objectives will be:
- Assess and evaluate the model, its implementation relevance, efficiency, effectiveness and sustainability and, to the extent possible, its impact on children and parents;
- Assess the CACs equity and child rights perspective both in terms of the capacities to reach out to and deliver prevention and support services to victims of violence.
- Identify and document lessons learnt, including in terms of service design, scope of support provided, resourcing, implementation, reach, involvement of state partners (police, child protection system, educational system and health system), for meeting the complex needs of children and parents.
- Identify the enablers and challenges for institutionalising and upscaling the service nationally.
- To assess the situation with VAC in a municipality without comparable services.
- To examine the relationships and integration of the services into the local systems of services for children and parents in Sofia, Shumen and Montana regions.
- Provide recommendations for the process of institutionalizing and scaling up of the CaC model and services nationally and for actions to ensure their quality and sustainable implementation in the future.
The provisions of the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child, including the Concluding observations to Bulgaria, and the other key human rights documents should guide the process of the evaluation, together with design of the methodology, implementation and analysis. The evaluation should also be designed and carried out to assess the equity
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Joint | No |
Partner/s | N/A |
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Agency Focal Point | Elena Atanassova |
Focal Point Email | eatanassova@unicef.org |
Managed by Independent Evaluation Office | No |
Geographic Scope | Country |
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