CARE, World Vision International and Plan International have entered into a consortium for the project “Enhancing inclusive and gender-responsive forecast-based early action for effective disaster preparedness in Vietnam and at regional level, by strengthening awareness, capacity and resilience of local communities and actors, and engaging them in policy dialogue through evidence-based advocacy”.

The project is funded by ECHO and has the following results and key indicators:

• Result 1: Capacity of local authorities and communities strengthened, and an age, gender and disability inclusive FBEA responsive mechanism on floods and droughts demonstrated.
• Result 2: Governments of Vietnam and ASEAN are aware of the benefits of, and are taking action to adapt and coordinate efforts within forecast-based early actions and rapid response at regional level.
• Result 3. Enhanced capacity to respond in anticipation to rapid onset emergency through access to a crisis modifier

Image: Consultant team including experts from TDI and Sen Asia participating in a FBEA project’s workshop

Image source: CVN, PIV, WV

The consultant team including a TDI’s expert, Ms. Chi Pham, and two experts from Sen Asia Group Ltd. undertakes this project’s final evaluation against the OECD DAC criteria, child rights, gender and inclusion as follows:

• Relevance: the extent to which the interventions and their approaches were suited to the priorities and policies of the people and communities they were intended to benefit.
• Coherence: The compatibility of the intervention with other interventions within the organization, at the local and national levels (where relevant)
• Effectiveness: the extent to which the project’s targets, as articulated in the original design document, was achieved and compared with the baseline points, and the reasons behind the achievement (or not) of the project’s expected results, and whether these are leading to unintended (positive or negative) consequences for targeted groups of the interventions. 
• Efficiency: the extent to which financial resources were used economically and efficiently, potentially including cost-benefit ratios and alternative programming approaches.
• Impact: establishing causal attribution to any observed positive and negative, primary and secondary long-term effects observed.
• Sustainability: the probability of continued long-term benefits to the target populations after the project has been completed. This might include the resource and capacity of partners or beneficiaries to continue the intervention after phase out.
• Child rights, gender and inclusion: the extent to which the project applied to gender and inclusion-sensitive approaches and explicitly aimed for results that improve the rights of children, young people and gender equality.

Reference link:

http://www.care.org.vn/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/FBEA_SEA_TOR_final-evaluation.pdf