The overall objective of the final evaluation is to provide the project stakeholders with sufficient information about the project performance (its relevance, efficiency, effectiveness, impact and sustainability); document lessons learned and provide practical recommendations for future improvements.
Therefore, the practical recommendations emerging from this final evaluation will:
- Generate information on the level of achievement of the intervention objectives (outcomes and wherever possible any evidence of emerging impact), information which will be useful to stakeholders;
- Inform and guide the design of future projects;
Inform and recommend improvements in overall policy towards CSOs in Armenia.
Description of actual services provided by your staff within the assignment:
The specific final evaluation objectives are built on 5 key parameters for the evaluator to study; and these are precisely: relevance, efficiency, effectives, impact and sustainability as described below:
- Assess the relevance of the project design (its activities and objectives) in addressing the priority development needs of Armenian CSOs;
- Assess to what extent the available resources have been used economically in delivering the project outputs/results, in terms of quantity, quality and timeliness (efficiency).
- Assess the major achievements of the project in relation to its defined objectives and planned results based on the logframe (effectiveness);
- Asses to what extent the project is contributing to a long-term positive effect on the civic sector and entire society (impact);
Assess whether the positive outcomes of the project at purpose level are likely to continue after the project (sustainability).