The purpose of this summative evaluation is multi-fold: to inform the Ombudsman and the Government of Kazakhstan, UNICEF and Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs on the key directions for more efficient monitoring of child rights violations and for the continuation of reforms in the area child protection to address child abuse, exploitation and family separation; to inform Government’s decisions on the scaling up of models piloted by the Project for child abandonment prevention and violence prevention; to provide a critical view and recommendations on the possible transformed engagement of UNICEF in part of exercising its Core Roles related to Project areas in the future, given that the Kazakhstan is expected to reach the high income country status by 2020.
The specific objectives of the evaluation were to assess the relevance, effectiveness, efficiency, impact and sustainability of the Project, the extent of applying a Human Rights Based Approach, equity and gender equality principles, the barriers and bottlenecks faced during implementation with a view to extract good practices and lessons learned as well as to providing recommendations for strengthening the reforms in the area of prevention and addressing child abuse, exploitation and family separation, informing programme directions and defining further funding needs.
The evaluation covers the implementation period June 2011 – March 2014 (33 out of 36 months) and all three targeted regions: Astana, Karaganda and East Kazakhstan, following the way the Project has been conceptualized in the Description of Action (DoA), various preparatory documents developed prior to the start of the project and later in the Theory of Change (ToC). The evaluation has been carried out during by a team of experts from Promeso Consulting (Romania), selected following competitive tender.
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Joint | No |
Partner/s | N/A |
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Agency Focal Point | Lovemore Mhuriyengwe |
Focal Point Email | lmhuriyengwe@unicef.org |
Managed by Independent Evaluation Office | No |
Geographic Scope | Country |
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