PPDVP Evaluation Report - Pacific Prevention of Domestic Violence ...

Programme's objectives at the national level in the 5 participating countries. The evaluation will notconsider impact as it is too early to assess programme impacts. The non-participating PlCs areargetexcluded from the focus of this evaluation (apart from an assessment in relation to relevancernd overall value for money) as the PPDVP has primarily focussed on 5 participating PICs; and anassessment of the other 14 Pacific Island Countries would require a more expensive and timeconsuming evaluation.Objective 1: Assess the relevance, effectiveness, efficiency, value for money, andsustainability of the PPDVP.Objective 2: Recommendations for further assistance (if any) including what form ofassistance (focus, scope, scale, duration, and resourcing) this should take. Provide a highleveldesign: goal, objectives, and outputs, for any follow-up phase.Met hodology7. The evaluation was primarily desk-based with a short field visit to Cook Islands, and standardevaluation and social science techniques were used. Project documentation and other relevantdocuments wcre reviewed.a. The Cook Islands, one of the five participating countries, was chosen for the field visit because it hasreceived a bilateral institutional strengthening programme (ISP), which provided a usefulopportunity to be able to explore how capacity strengthening of DV was occurring within a broaderISP context; Cook Islands had a local Commissioner of Police; and a regional judicial meeting wasgoing to be held in the Cook Islands at the anticipated time of the field visit, which would provide anopportunity to hold face-to-face interviews with judicial officers from the 5 participating countries toget their perspectives.9. A range of stakeholder groups were consulted during the inforrnation-gathering phase through anemailed questionnaire, or through face-to-face or telephone interviews. Thirty four people wereinterviewed, 19 questionnaires were completed and 2 other responses received, from a total of 53respondents. This included relevant staff from the New Zealand Aid Programme and New ZealandPolice, PPDVP programme staff and in-country mentors, Pacific Islands Police Commissioners andDomestic Violence coordinators, in-country victim support organisations, government agencies withlead roles on Domestic Violence, and other regional and bilateral law &justice sector programmes.A list of participants in the evaluation is contained in Annex Seven.lo. The evaluation assessed what has been achieved by the PPDVP against the four DAC evaluationcriteria of relevance, effectiveness, efficiency (including value for money), and sustainability. It didnot consider the fifth DAC criteria, impact, as it is too early to assess programme impacts.Kev Findings - Evaluation Obiectlve One:Relevance11. The current International Development Policy Statement notes that the focus of the New ZealandAid Programme is sustainable economic development and that the Pacific remains the coregeographic focus. The PPDVP has a role to play in supporting the focus on sustainable economicdevelopment, as sustainable economic development requires the primacy of the rule of law andresearch inter nationally indicates that sexual & gender-based violence (SGBV) has costs whichimpact on sustainable economic development. The International Development Policy Statementsets out four priority themes which include "building safe and secure communities". Preventingdomestic violence is a key element in achieving safe and secure communities. A safe and securePacific is also in line with New Zealand's foreign policy objectives evidenced by, for example, thePacific Security Fund.PPDVP Evaluation ReportPage ii