Evaluation of Project Interventions

EVALUATION OF PROJECT INTERVENTIONS

Family Health Campaign: Accountability for Change (Sajhedar Initiative)

The Family Health Campaign or the Sajhedar initiative, was a three year long intervention in two districts of Madhya Pradesh to engage men as responsible partners and fathers, with the objective of improving overall maternal health of women. It also sought to raise awareness of maternal health entitlements in the community and empower communities to demand maternal health services.

The baseline study was done to understand the ground realities related to maternal health; health seeking behaviour; social beliefs and norms; family planning and use of contraceptive methods; understanding of gender issues; partnership; parenting; knowledge on health entitlements under National Rural Health Mission (NRHM) in Sidhi and Morena districts of Madhya Pradesh. The main objective of the baseline study was to find out the current ground realities with respect to men’s behaviour and attitude towards their roles and responsibilities as partners in the area of their own and partner’s health and parenting. For distilling the impact of the three-year long Sajhedar project, an endline evaluation was conducted in Morena and Sidhi districts in 2014. A report describing the changes that took place due to the Sajhedar intervention was prepared. This included drawing data from the baseline and endline studies, mid-term reviews, a qualitative endline study, analysis of stories of change and two PRAs conducted in the project period. The report describes the changes that have taken place in the intervention area in accordance with the programme theory. A working paper has also been prepared based on this data.
REPORTS: - Baseline Report - Consolidated report of project impact - Working Paper – Engendered Accountability

Yuva Samanta Ki Or: Working with Young Men and Boys for Introducing New Gender related Social Norms in the State of Rajasthan, India

The Centre for Health and Social Justice has been pioneering an approach to working with men and boys on social justice issues and our experience is that men and boys can be involved in changing social hierarchies at the family and household level if they are involved as partners in a joint quest of equality and social justice. This approach is based on our understanding that patriarchy and gender divisions which are responsible for the control and subordinate position of women, and for male privileges, are not always advantageous to all men.

Since 2014, CHSJ is implementing a project in 30 villages in Bundi and Udaipur districts, Rajasthan two partner organisations which work directly with the adolescents in their respective areas. This approach enables to distil robust lessons and test and develop a model which can be applied at a larger scale.
A baseline study to understand the knowledge, attitude and behaviour of the adolescents and young men on reproductive and sexual health, current gender norms in the community and access to public adolescent health services was undertaken. The study used mixed methods of a survey with adolescent boys and focus group discussions with boys, girls and other stakeholders. The study has shown the prevalence of discriminatory norms against women and girls, very few girls go for higher education and marriage before the legal age is very common.

Enhancing Male Participation for Improving Gender Equality in Maharashtra

The research wing designed a baseline study in 2010-11 to understand the gender roles and perception of gender equality among men and women in the project area. The baseline study was conducted in 125 villages where a total of 1130 men and 590 women all currently married and under the age of 35 years were interviewed. The issues covered in the study were:

Gender roles and responsibilities of men and women
Attitude, knowledge and behaviour about reproductive and sexual health
Behaviour of men with female members of their respective families during health emergencies
Action on violence against women
Contraceptive behaviours
Community level participation of men and youth in gender related discussion.

A formative study comprising of interviews and focus group discussions was also conducted prior to the survey.

Evaluating Youth for Change: A Project Implemented by SAHAYOG, U.P.

CHSJ was requested by SAHAYOG’s in 2010-11 to assist in the evaluation process of its project Youth for Change which was being implemented in nine districts of Uttar Pradesh viz. Azamgarh, Banda, Bareily, Chandoli, Gorakhpur, Jhansi, Muzzaffarnagar, Mirzapur and Saharanpur. The study was designed based on a programme theory approach incorporating the indicators and outputs indicated in the project document. The objectives of the study were:

To assess the achievements of the project indicators and verify the project outputs
To understand the differences, if any, made in the lives of youth as a result of the programme intervention and lastly
To identify promising practices that led to the above changes.

Baseline Evaluation: Strengthening Self Sustaining Management Systems for Primary Healthcare in Rural Uttarakhand, Phase II

AAROHI an NGO based in Nainital district of Uttarakhand requested CHSJin 2010 to conduct a baseline study for its project. The study was conducted in Ramgarh and Okhalkanda blocks of Nainital district in Uttarakhand using a combination of both quantitative and qualitative methods. A survey was conducted among mother’s who have delivered/miscarried/aborted in the last 3 year or is currently pregnant were interviewed from 300 households in 15 villages.

The study intended to understand the prevailing practices which have impact on health like - breast feeding, delivery, food, menstrual practices and care during pregnancy, availability of formal and informal health services, health problems especially of women and children, health service utilization, contraceptive behaviour, decision making process, attitude and knowledge of village health workers, functioning of village level institutions like GP, VHSC and PHCs.

Supporting State Level Advocacy for RSHR

CHSJ has provided intensive support to state level advocacy on reproductive and sexual health in a number of states like Bihar, Orissa, Jharkhand, Maharashtra, etc. CHSJ commissioned an external consultant to conduct a review of the project “Advocating for Reproductive and Sexual Health and Rights” to identify not only whether the project outputs and outcomes were met, but to understand the nature of CHSJ’s partnership support at the state level and ways to strengthen the same.