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generating activities and home visits). The set of services is continually
adapted as community needs change.
Local Involvement/
Ownership
BKB works only where invited by the community, to ensure that
communities are committed, active partners in program activities.
Communities select the at-risk families that receive assistance. Community
leaders organize, schedule, and mobilize participation in health education
and other community sessions. Community members provide resources
including land, materials, and labor, and take responsibility for the
maintenance of protected springs, bore hole, and water tank equipment.
Evaluation
Methodology
• Needs assessment: At the start of the program, external consultants
use surveys to identify needs and gaps in project communities. Also, at
the start of every program activity, BKB meets with community leaders,
women’s groups, and community-based organizations to discuss and
document community resources and needs. Needs are assessed using
a range of tools. For example, the need for a clean water source can be
measured by the cost of a jerrycan of water in a given community, and
the quality of water by the incidence of water-borne diseases. BKB then
works with communities to prioritize needs and select program activities
to address the most pressing concerns among the most vulnerable
families.
• Baseline, monitoring and endline data collection for village market
project: In 2000, the FCS program conducted a baseline survey to
measure the need for a village market in Kitala Village. Indicators
measured included income and literacy levels, level of buying and
selling, available products and goods and their costs, gaps and needs
for products and goods, cost of buying and transporting goods
wholesale and mark-up rates, and number of women engaged in
productive activities. Data were analyzed and used to develop a market
structure, which was implemented in 2000. BKB provided business and
skills training, land, facilities and start-up in-kind materials for women
entrepreneurs operating 100 businesses. Monitoring data were
collected annually from 2001 to 2005. Endline data were collected in
2006.
• Monitoring data collection: BKB collects monitoring data on an ongoing
basis and annually, as well as periodically as needed to reassess and
revise project activities. BKB collects data through attendance registers
and treatment records (mobile health clinic), visitation forms (home
visits), school records and reports (education projects), and
construction records (water projects) on a range of indicators, including
number of:
- Mobile health clinic beneficiaries
- Women attending mobile health clinic antenatal care
- Beneficiaries receiving mobile health clinic voluntary counseling
- Home visit beneficiaries
- Students receiving school sponsorships
- Water sources constructed and number of beneficiaries of water
sources
- Income-generating projects
- People who directly benefited from program activities
• Program reviews and evaluation: Donors and external consultants have
reviewed and evaluated FCS using a range of methods and tools.
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