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This Project Completion Report template includes DFID reporting requirements for 2016. It is designed to provide a report on your project as a whole which:
enables you to communicate to DFID what GPAF funding has achieved through your project
establishes a record of project achievement against its outcome and outputs
draws out conclusions and lessons learnt of value and wider application
contributes to learning on emerging results
informs a wider analysis of all GPAF projects
checks compliance with the terms and conditions of the grant.
The template is aligned to the 2015 Annual Report template where changes were made in response to the Fund Manager’s experience from previous rounds, input from the
GPAF Evaluation Manager and DFID requirements and considerations. Revisions have been made to strengthen the documents, whilst maintaining a high degree of
continuity with last year’s reports.
strengthened guidance and clearer wording of some questions, for example on logframes, risk and value for money
a new sections on methodological tools, to support GPAF evaluation
a revised and more open section on learning
some different questions on project accountability to stakeholders
a few new questions, for example on assumptions, collection of beneficiary data and meeting the requirements of your grant arrangement
removal of a few questions, for example on beneficiaries
What is required?
Refer back to your most recent Annual Report feedback letter which might well contain pointers for completing the PCR.
Use the 2016 Project Completion Report template (this document) without altering its structure
Cover the whole period of your project
Keep within page length limits
Ensure that you draw on and refer to the findings of your external evaluation
Submit the report and all accompanying documentation including separate annexes as WORD /Excel documents, not as PDF files
The PCR report is due after your project end date (unless otherwise agreed in writing by the Fund Manager).
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1 Basic Information 2 Basic project data
Summary, Progress & A narrative summary of project progress and achievements including section 2.2 which, unlike
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Achievements the rest of the report, specifically covers the final period of the project
3 Value for Money 2 A summary of actions and achievements in relation to value for money
Requirements of Grant
7 1 New section to ensure that the requirements of the Grant Arrangement have been met
Arrangement
Comments on Independent Grant Holder comments on the findings and recommendations of the project Independent Final
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Final Evaluation Evaluation
A record of progress against the milestones and targets in your project logframe. Includes an
Outcome and output
Annex A 12 assessment of progress against each indicator and the evidence which supports the
scoring
statements of achievement. Includes table to record methodological tools used.
Annex Some basic information about your project to feed into an analysis of the whole portfolio of
Portfolio Analysis 3
C GPAF projects
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Most recently approved Logframe and Activity Log in Excel format, with ‘Achieved’ boxes completed for
each indicator, and each relevant milestone.
Reporting Logframe
Please label this document: “GPAF (ref. no.) PCR Logframe (+ date prepared)”.
Please name the document “GPAF [ref. no] final evaluation report”. For guidance please refer to
Final (External) Evaluation Report
“Independent Final Evaluations – overview for GPAF grantees” and FAQs recently circulated
New photograph(s) which illustrates or tells a story of your project.
Photograph(s)
Attach as a separate file(s) (i.e. do not embed into another document), preferably as a JPEG file.
In separate document please provide:
* captions or explanations of the photo(s);
Supporting statement for photograph(s) * the photographer’s name, if possible;
* assurance that subjects have given their consent, both for the photograph to be taken and for its
possible use in learning/publicity materials.
3. Financial Report (attachment - use the most recent Excel template circulated with this report template)
Check
Document Notes
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Worksheet 2 of excel template showing expenditure in the project’s final financial year
Final Annual financial report
Project expenditure must be reported against the full detailed budget agreed by Fund Manager and not the summary budget used for expenditure claims.
Any variances in excess of 10%, either positive or negative, (or transfers between main budget sub-headings) must be explained.
You should show any variances both in terms of total amount in GBP (£) and percentage of your budget.
4. Closure documents
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Final claim or statement of The appropriate template will be sent separately (as dependent on nature of claims)
expenditure
Please use template provided with PCR document pack
Inventory of disposal of assets
Please use template provided with PCR document pack
Asset transfer letter
A hard copy of your Annual Audited Accounts for the financial year in which your project ended must be posted
Annual Audited Accounts (if
to the Fund Manager four months after the end of your financial year, unless an alternative deadline has been
available – see note)
agreed in writing by the Fund Manager.
Information and References
Purpose of the GPAF
The Global Poverty Action Fund (GPAF) is a demand-led fund supporting projects which are focused on:
poverty reduction and
pursuit of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs)
Further Guidance documents that may help with the completion of this Project Completion Report:
Quality of Evidence:
BOND Quality of Evidence Guidelines
DFID How-To-Note – Assessing the Strength of Evidence
Any Questions?
If you have any questions about the completion of your reporting requirements, please contact your Performance and Risk Manager.
Common questions with answers and further guidance as previously drawn up by TripleLine are being circulated as Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs) alongside this report.
1.17 Acronyms
Please try not to use too many acronyms, and explain all that you do use e.g. CHW – Community Health Worker.
Acronym Explanation
ANC Ante Natal Care
ANM Auxiliary Nurse Midwife
ASHA Accredited Social Health Activist
AWC Anganwadi Centre
AWW Anganwadi Worker
BDO Block Development Officer
BFM Beneficiary Feedback Mechanism
CA Change Agents
CBO Community Based Organisation
CINI Child in Need Institute
DRDA District Rural Development Authority
HDI Human Development Index
HHW Honorary Health Workers
ICDS Integrated Child Development Scheme
The project intervened in the first 1000 days of life to improve coverage of ANC, PNC, Institutional delivery, JSY and routine immunization and infant and
young child feeding practices. Community events like Annaprashan (first rice ceremony) and Swad Bhakhan (special care during last trimester of
pregnancy) and initiatives like Nutrition Rehabilitation and Education program (NREP) and referral of severely under-weight children to government run
NRC worked on improving infant feeding practices and child nutrition levels. Reaching feedback from communities to government service providers has
been a unique initiative of the project to bridge the gaps between demand and service provision.
The four identified good practices that have led to positive outcomes are Self Monitoring by mothers using Pictorial Calendar, Improved Post Natal Care
due to incentivization with PNC kits, NREP sessions and the Beneficiary Feedback Mechanism. Some of the Behaviour Change Communication materials
developed for this project were 1000 day pictorial calendar for use of mothers, bilingual (Bangla and Hindi) guidebook on first 1000 days care for use of
field functionaries, trilingual ( Bangla, Hindi, and Urdu) pictorial leaflets for use of communities and NREP flip book for counselling session. Specifically
designed MIS software aided in robust monitoring and data collection of project at all levels.
From the Baseline survey conducted in 2013 to the Final Evaluation in 2016, maternal health indicators like ANC, PNC, JSY referrals and birth attended by
skilled personnel have significantly increased in both rural and urban project areas. Infant and young child feeding practices have also recorded a
significant improvement in project areas. Children in the normal weight range have increased while numbers of moderate and severe underweight children
have reduced significantly (Source – Project Logframe)
b. Please provide a couple of direct quotations from beneficiaries that illustrate how the project intervention has improved their lives.
Swati Das, 23, mother of two children- “I wonder what would have happened to me and my baby if CINI didi (CA) had not intervened. Because of her
help I got the benefits of the hospital and understand the importance of nutrition and ANC for pregnant mothers. I am so grateful to the CINI didi’s
(CAs). I will continue to talk about the importance of ANC to all the young women in my locality”.
Sanam Khatun, 19, mother of one child - “I received nutrition support and counselling from CINI. I know the importance of post-natal care check- ups
and encourage my neighbours also to avail the same. I understand how important health care and nutrion is, so I now save money and visit the
hospital on my own”.
Narseen Begam, 28, mother of two children - “At the NREP session conducted by the CINI didi's (CAs), I joined the other mothers in the cooking
process (khichdi- mixture of rice, dal, vegetables, oil, and condiments) and learnt the cheaper and easy method of cooking nutritious meals. I
followed the advices at home which improved my child's health”.
Piu Biswas, 32, Change Agent - “I helped people not to make the same mistakes, which I made by neglecting my child's and my own health. GPAF
project is ending, but I believe with the knowledge I gained, I can continue supporting and sharing knowledge with people around me”.
2.2 PROGRESS SINCE THE PERIOD COVERED BY THE LAST ANNUAL REPORT
a. What are the dates of this final reporting period? April 2015-March 2016
b. Please outline progress during this final period and any significant challenges (max 10 lines)
1. Community sensitization and empowerment was a core approach of the project to bring long lasting behavioural changes in the communities. Towards
the end, the project has created 10 Empowered Community Watch Groups” which while being part of the same community are transferring
knowledge and ensuring quality services from government, making duty bearers accountable.
2. The project built capacities of 114 SHGs, 351 CBOs and the local clubs around mother and child health. These groups are now playing the role of
facilitators to support behaviour change drive in the community.
3. The project was engaged with the maternal and child health system in both rural and urban project areas to improve delivery of out-reach services.
Though regular meetings and awareness programmes, existing convergent platforms like VHND and VHSNC were strengthened and streamlined. As
a result, health and nutrition issues came out as a priority agenda for the local government functionaries and were addressed through the project’s
activities.
4. Joint capacity building programme for CA and Government health workers was a multi-level and multilayered approach both with internal and external
stake holders, which ensured quality of ICDS and Health services such as providing improved quality of supplementary food, post immunization follow-
up and counselling for growth promotion, etc.
5. Advocacy was done at the state level for up-scaling the good practices of GPAF project to reach out the underserved urban population in the
remaining boroughs/slums of Kolkata Municipal Corporation. As a result the government has considered the need for opening new ICDS centres in the
underserved pockets, by adapting some good practices of GPAF project. This can be implemented by government after the election in 2016
Challenges:
1. Reaching out the underserved rural remote population in Goalpokher has been a major obstacle without appropriate government system and
structure.
2. The achievement of institutional delivery, especially amongst Muslim communities at rural Goalphoker project location was a major impediment
against the target. This is a sensitive issue in this conservative Muslim culture.
3. The government responses to the community needs on quality of health and nutrition services were not timely, despite the community voices/concerns
raised as part of feedback mechanism.
4. There were local elections that changed the leadership within the community, this made relationship building difficult as the project was not an initial
priority of newly elected officials.
i. Project design N
ii. Partner(s) N
iii. Context N
iv. Availability of match-funding (where relevant) N
d. Provide a brief explanation of what changed and why: Not applicable
n/a
A lot of effort was given by the project team in year two to strengthen the existing convergent platforms and organise ward Sabhas in the urban locations.
This process enabled to facilitate discussion and planning for improving health and nutrition services. However, the municipal elections in 2015, brought
about a change in the local context due to change in political representation. The new elected representatives had their set political agenda with less
priority in health and nutrition interventions. The project was re-strategized to ensure engagement of political representatives through frequent interaction
on needs of health and nutrition issues for improving maternal and child health and nutrition.
The desired impact of the project was to address poverty reduction by generating awareness among marginalized and migrant populations in urban and
rural project locations for accessing government services. Besides targeting women and under two children, the issue of equity was addressed by
ensuring the participation of male and female adults & children, female and male front line workers, male community decision makers in the sensitization
meetings/community based events. Project included the following activities:
1. Events (first rice ceremony, last trimester pregnancy ceremony, breast feeding and nutrition weeks) have been organised in all project locations,
inviting people irrespective of caste and religion for creating mass awareness on improving maternal and child health and nutrition in coordination with
the government functionaries with active involvement of community members and CBOs.
2. Mothers and other caregivers including male members of the families were sensitised on awareness of health and nutrition specific interventions and
existing government flagship programs and schemes. The program reached to 39,357 (pregnant women and mothers or under 2 children), so that
they can access to maternal and child health services.
3. 351 community based organisations like local clubs of Borough VII (162) and Goalpokhar block 1 (189) were trained on the government
programmes/schemes and their roles to track the service compliance.
4. 114 Self help groups constituted with representatives from the same community, belonging to varied socio-economic and religious groups were
engaged in promoting MCH services and 4 groups were engaged in packaging and supplying of post natal care kits to project, which ensured their
livelihoods. This initiative also empowered the women on decision making to spend money for improved family care.
5. 10, 0059 female Community Members demonstrated increased knowledge of MCH and SRH issues (refer to Annex A) towards improving their own
and their child’s health.
6. 529 Change Agents in Borough VII (298) and Goalpokhar 1 block (225) were trained from various socio – economic and religious background through
incremental training during monthly meeting. The work of change agents was incentive-based; which was used for their education and other health
purposes.
7. 5850 people of varied socio-economic and religious background participated in Ward sabha (510) and Gram sabha (5340) for discussing the issues
and prepared action plans
b. What has the project done to ensure that it was designed, implemented and monitored in such a way that gender needs and issues were
addressed or mainstreamed, and that it delivered and tracked improvements in the lives of women and girls? What analytical tools did you
use, if any, to do this? (Please refer to the guidance referenced on page 4)
c. What steps did the grant holder and implementing partner(s) take to support the principles of equity, diversity and inclusion through:
i) organisational policies and practice, including the staffing profile of the project?
ii) promoting inclusion skills and competencies within the organisation?
Please respond particularly with reference to gender and disability.
The implementing partners also has a Gender Policy and Sexual Harassment at Workplace Policy to ensure gender equity within the workplace.
Staffing Profile:
The Project Management team has a gender ratio of 50:50
The Field Coordination team gender ratio is 50:50
In Urban the project location, all supervisors are female, whereas the supervisors in the rural area have a gender ratio of 50:50
All Change Agents hired are female for better working relationships and sensitivity to the female target group. They all have diverse background and
belong to different religion, caste, age group, qualification, etc.
ChildHope has also provided training to CINI staff and other project team members on Inclusive development which mainly focused on the inclusion of
disabled. Staff members were also trained on child protection, participation. ChildHope also facilitated the learning exchange programmes with other
partner organisations.
2.5 KEY RESULTS AND ACHIEVEMENTS FROM THE OUTSET OF THE PROJECT
Please provide a heading and summary of the three most significant project results or achievements over the whole project period (up to 10
lines each). This section provides you with an opportunity to tell the story of the project’s success and what you are most proud of. Please be
as specific as possible in describing the target groups; how many citizens benefited (men/women; girls/boys); and how they have benefitted.
Make it clear where the results and achievements were made in coalition or partnership with other, non-project actors. Where possible please
with particular reference to the objectives of the GPAF.
At the end of year 4, 98.4% women in urban and 82% women in rural areas attended at least 3 ANC during pregnancy against the baseline of 69% in
urban and 55% in rural. 86% women in urban and 77 % women in rural have been referred for JSY benefits against the baseline of 17% in urban and 55%
in rural.
Change Agents and Supervisors along with government frontline workers (ANM, ASHA, and HHW) generated awareness among the community during
sensitization meetings regarding the importance of ANC check up and JSY benefits. As follow up of sensitization meetings, change agents in coordination
with the frontline workers made home contacts to ensure next ANC check up and also track the dropout mothers due for ANC. They also help women in
registering for JSY benefits. Moreover, the self monitoring calendar also helped in motivating the beneficiaries to access health services on a regular basis
as they can keep track of their own and child’s health. The self- monitoring calendar was used for tracking compliance of services during first 1000 days of
life. It is a calendar consisting of all the major milestones related to maternal and child health like ANC, PNC, Immunization, Infant and young child feeding
practices etc.
2. Increase in % of women receiving at least 3 PNC care after delivery
At the end of year 4, 67% women in urban and 50 % women in rural have received at least 3 PNC checkups against the baseline 10% in urban and 45% in
rural
To improve the coverage of PNC check-ups within 42 days after delivery, PNC kit as an incentive was given to the woman post delivery. Demand of PNC
kit was increased as community understood the necessity and utility of the kit. Continuous awareness generation on the importance of PNC check up by
the change agents and supervisors along with government frontline workers helped a lot in motivating women to access the services.
With the initiative of GPAF, 12 days Nutrition Rehabilitation Education Programme (NREP) sessions were conducted jointly with government peripheral
workers and community based organisations for the mothers/caregivers of malnourished children on feeding demonstration, care and personal hygiene.
The NREP sessions were also conducted in the non ICDS areas by supervisors and change agents with the initiative of community. These children were
followed up for a period of 18 days through home contacts to track behavioural practice at home. Children who were not gaining weight within 2-3 months
were referred to government runs Nutrition Rehabilitation Centre (NRC) for institutional care. CINI introduced a roaster to track the attendance of visit to
these sessions and weight monitoring. The mascot drawn by mothers is a baby and every visit will lead to drawing of one part of the body. If someone is
absent one day, that part will not be drawn (for example hands) and it will be shown that the baby would not be normal. This helped in creating peer
pressure and motivating the mothers to come for these sessions.
a. Please list key factors that contributed positively to your overall achievements
1. Engagement of government functionaries and local key stakeholders was there right from the project planning, implementation, and monitoring of
project activities. Micro plan was prepared in each ward and Gram Panchayat with active involvement of government peripheral workers and
community based groups.
2. IEC & BCC materials and feedback tools were developed based on the local context analysis and community inputs.
3. Sensitised local community based organisations were actively engaged in identifying the issues related to poor service delivery. The groups also
apprised the government key personnel to improve service delivery.
4. Mothers with support of family members were involved to track the service compliance using self monitoring calendar during first 1000 of life
b. List key challenges or factors which impacted negatively on progress and how they were addressed
No
2.8 PROJECT LOGFRAME
a. On the basis of your project implementation experience, do you consider there to be any key aspects of your project which have not been
sufficiently captured in your project logframe (such
as hard-to-measure qualitative results)? (mark box): Yes No X
If yes, please use the space below to explain.
Low morale of CA due to less incentive from To some extent The incentive of Change Agents was increased from Rs To some extent
the project compared to government ASHA 500 to Rs 600 per month. The project team lobbied with
worker of NRHM programme KMC for considering CA as government urban ASHA
workers which can transfer learning in other
communities and also help in retaining the trained
workforce. It was acknowledged by a few government
officials that CA had better updated knowledge and
skills in comparison with other government field health
workers. Government officials are reflecting on this and
may take a decision after the election in June 2016.
JSY, PNC services – services not reaching the Yes The project team had discussions in forums like ward To some extent
community sabha, panchayat, district and state level dissemination
meetings. The process involved a lot of lobbying with
the government officials to approve for joint visits of
change agents and government health workers to
houses in different locations, in order to identify
mothers with complications and refer them to health
centres. As a result of this initiative the JSY and PNC
coverage was increased as can be seen by the end line
survey/ evaluation figures.
ICDS not cooperating with project staff to No This was highlighted as one of the risks in the last To some extent
organised NREP session annual report. To mitigate this, regular meetings were
held with CDPO and ICDS supervisors (senior
government officials), circular was issued from district
headquarters to organise NREP sessions at the AWW
centres where the magnitude of child was a concern.
The project used community infrastructure effectively. During the evaluation qualitative interviews, the club members and the Government stakeholders
informed that they provided infrastructure support for some of the CINI activities. This was possible due to the good rapport established by CINI with all
the stakeholders. During the interview with the Program staff, it was also reported that the organization is very prudent about out of pocket expenditures.
Most of the program staff used public transport and used standard accommodation for any project related travel. CINI has been working in these areas for
a very long time and thus it did not have to incur large cost in setting up the project. Many of the program staffs have been working with the organization
or other projects before.
One significant achievement of the program was to achieve match funding for this project. In the current context, where DFID’s withdrawal of funding for
India resulted in other donors (e.g. JOAC, GOAC, etc.) pulling out, it was very difficult to secure the necessary 25% match funding for this project. This
was particularly difficult in a district such as North Dinajpur where there are limited CSR opportunities. However, ChildHope and CINI managed to raise
money through various community platforms and leverage other Government funding. It managed to establish a symbiotic relationship with the state
government, where they supported the government by bridging the manpower gap and the Government helped in achieve program objectives by aligning
their activities to some of the program activities. Along with this, CINI contributed a large part from their own general funding reserve. The program has
also been successful in motivating the community to contribute. During the discussions with club members and Self Help Groups, it was reported that the
community was also contributing small amounts at individual level for improving overall maternal and child health status of the respective project locations.
3.2 Efficiency: Converting inputs to outputs through project activities. What steps have you taken during the project to ensure resources
(inputs) were used efficiently to maximise the results achieved, such as numbers reached or depth of engagement? Include
references to the use of any relevant cost comparisons (benchmarks) at the output level (e.g. standard training cost per trainee) and
any efficiencies gained from working in collaboration with others.
It was revealed in the evaluation that various steps were taken to improve the efficiency of the project in terms of cost. The managers of other projects
visited the project locations during their project monitoring visits and provided technical support which reduced costs of outsourcing consultants. CINI and
the Government provided space for holding meetings and workshop related to the project. IT personnel from CINI provided free/low cost services for
management of the database. Project management staffs, as well as field level workers were encouraged to attend other projects training programmes on
relevant issues for the development of their skills. This reduced the amount of funds the project spent on training.
4.1 What have you done to ensure that project outcomes - positive changes to peoples’ lives - will be sustained beyond the lifetime of the GPAF grant?
Change Agents are an important component of the program. Change Agents will continue good maternal and child care practices at the family and
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3.4WhetherHave there been or do you anticipate multiplier effects from this project? Multiplier effects include leveraging additional funds, longer term or
the program created systems and processes for Government
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functionaries which will continue stay after it ends
enhance delivery? In the PCR, we are particularly interested in assessing the potential and likelihood of scale up or replication.
Whether program has created systems and processes for Community which will
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reported that the community lacks the motivation to change their practice and this could only be sustained through a sustained effort to change the
behaviours of the community. Out of these 7 Change Agents, 5 Change Agents are from Kolkata.
Table below depicts the distribution of the Change Agents by the reasons for which they feel that the community will not take
ownership.
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SECTION 5: PROJECT ACCOUNTABILITY TO STAKEHOLDERS (Up to 1 page).
DFID is particularly interested in project mechanisms to enable project beneficiaries to provide feedback to project managers, and project responses to
it. The purpose of beneficiary feedback is to maintain accountability to the people who the project is designed to assist or empower, and to ensure the
relevance, effectiveness and sustainability of the intervention. The questions below aim to enhance understanding of the use of beneficiary feedback
mechanisms within the GPAF portfolio.
5.1 Method: What feedback do you seek from primary beneficiaries, how have you collected this information and when?
The project collects feedback from beneficiaries to get information on the service delivery issues like institutional delivery, ANC and PNC check-up,
PNC kit, JSY benefits, ICDS services, participation in NREP session, referral to NRC, other non project interventions like immunization and sanitation.
Feedback is also collected on CAs engagement with the community and coordination with service providers. Feedback mechanism is followed to
connect beneficiaries with actual services being received.
The Beneficiary Feedback Mechanism (BFM) pilot project had been rolled out under the umbrella of GPAF project, with technical assistance of World
Vision UK. The goal was to provide an accessible feedback mechanism to the community so that they can raise their voices about the government
service reach and its quality. Feedback was taken from the beneficiary on a regular basis during home visits by Change Agents which was further
recorded in the project MIS. Community group meeting minutes were recorded regularly by staff members on a weekly basis and finally the community
gave their personal feedback in the feedback boxes.
Feedback collected was consolidated and analysed, and evaluated during end of the year surveys. This was shared with stakeholders and community
members during convergent meetings (ward/gram sabha) and state level meeting to rank the services of the government and make action plan for
improving service delivery.
5.2 Challenge:
a. What challenges did your project face in collecting feedback from its primary beneficiaries?
Due to the problem of illiteracy, the tools of collecting feedback had to be changed a number of times to make it user friendly. At the end, pictorial
feedback formats was successfully put into practise. Feedback were also collected during group meetings so as to help women who are not
comfortable in writing or posting.
b. What challenges did your project face in acting upon beneficiary feedback?
The feedback was shared with government service providers and elected representatives of wards but the action to be taken was time consuming
as many of the issues require change at policy level and approvals of higher authorities based outside the state, at the centre.
Political situation was a major challenge of working in the project location as there was a constant tension between political parties for power. The
councillor and political party members had their own specific political agenda and were not concerned with health and nutrition issues.
5.3 Change: If you made any significant change to project design and / or delivery as a result of beneficiary feedback, please describe it here.
Provide each area of learning with a descriptive title and an explanation. By way of illustration, these could include:
innovation – how could models tested by the project be replicated or scaled up?
equity and gender – did you learn about approaches to reducing inequalities, working to challenge power dynamics; participation in decision-
making?
capacity building – have you learnt how to enable civil society to address poverty or negotiate or claim their rights? What worked well?
monitoring and evaluation – what have you learned about measuring results, successful tools and methods, demonstrating achievement?
empowerment and accountability – what enhances these processes? How have you overcome resistance or indifference?
design – did original assumptions about what would work to deliver outputs or outcomes need to be changed? How did you know? What did you
do?
organisational constraints – did you encounter difficulties due to organisational culture, practice or capacity which you had to address?
Learning
How did this lead to changes or improvements in the way you (i.e. grant holder or partner) have
(Provide both a title and an
worked?
explanation)
At the commencement of the project interventions, those indicators and processes where
behaviour change was most difficult were identified and intensive steps were taken to address
these barriers and bring about a change. Four innovations emerged as Good Practices that not
only work at the community/systemic level but are also is sustainable and easily replicable in other
contexts. They are (1) Self Monitoring and Tracking by mothers leading to improved coverage of
Innovation – how could models
essential health and nutrition services, (2) Incentivizing Post Natal Care leading to improved
tested by the project be replicated or
1. awareness and coverage of PNC services, (3) Community led and managed process to manage
scaled up?
and reduce child malnutrition and (4) Empowered Communities giving feedback to improve quality
of services.
Two good practices like incentivising postnatal care and NREP session have been identified by
the government for scale-up with some modifications based on the government policies.
A study was conducted in order to understand the degree or extent of gender discrimination in
2. Equity and gender feeding practices and health interventions for children less than 2 years and to investigate if there
were any other causes that had a profound impact and bearing on the extent of malnutrition
among boys and girls less than two years. The study reveled that there was hardly any
discrimination between the feeding and health care practices of boy and girl children below two
years. The vulnerability of children be it boy or girl in this age group to malnutrition, in households
at a lower socio economic status, was compounded by the vulnerability of the mother. As long as
women do not have control over resources in the family and their own reproductive choices, they
will not be able to navigate their children to a state of better nutrition and health. As long as
women are kept out of key decisions like when to marry, when and how many children to have
and how to allocate household resources they will continue to serve as the cross bearers of the
Intergenerational Cycle of Malnutrition. What is needed is a paradigm shift to integrate gender in
to every single health and nutrition interventions. The woman needs to be seen as an individual in
her own right and not merely a past, present or future mother.
3. Capacity building The project staff and change agents were trained initially on project indicator twice (at the
beginning of the programme). But this was not adequate to uplift their knowledge and skills, as
understood from their feedback to project management team. So incremental training was
organised every month based on the data analysed from MIS and field observations. This
resulted in improved timely delivery of the project activities as per the log frame indicators.
Regular monthly reflection and review sessions of staff members ensured that data collected for
Initially, the community members were not interested in health and nutrition issues as these
interventions were not the immediate supportive means to their livelihood needs. The positive
deviance mothers from community were identified and they were used for peer education.
Earlier information was collected in loose sheets (MIS sheets) which was not great for compilation
and analysis. Later, it was organized in to a booklet form at a later stage. The CAs received two
rounds of training on how to fill up the formats. The new formats had provision to fill in reasons for
noncompliance if any, which the CAs and Supervisors think as very relevant (as this helped in
identifying the reason for which any service was not being taken). Monitoring of the urban project
areas was more intense because of the presence of the project management team.
4. Monitoring and evaluation
End of each year, an end line survey was conducted which helped in triangulation of the data
collected by Project MIS and Staff members. It was further verified through community meetings
and their feedback. The entire process has been very useful in assessing the progress made as
per the logframe milestones and indicators, and also to review/ revise the targets. Most of the
logframe targets were increased during annual reviews and achieved during implementation.
5. Empowerment and accountability The project empowered the community about their rights and entitlements to enable them to
secure the state mandated entitlements in maternal and child health and nutrition. A mechanism
was initiated to collect feedback from beneficiaries to get information on the service delivery
issues like institutional delivery, ANC and PNC check-up, PNC kit, JSY benefits, ICDS services,
participation in NREP session, referral to NRC, other non project interventions like immunization
and sanitation. Feedback was also collected on CAs engagement with the community and
coordination with service providers. Feedback mechanism was followed to connect beneficiaries
with actual services being received.
The purpose of the beneficiary feedback mechanism was to provide an accessible feedback
mechanism to the community so that they can raise their voices about the government service
reach and its quality. Feedback was taken from the beneficiary on a regular basis, during home
visit by Change Agents which was recorded in project MIS, during group meetings with
The process was very slow during the initial stage since the community were not used to provide
feedback on government services due to low literacy rate and lack of rights awareness. Looking
at this issue, a pictorial feedback format was introduced followed by community rights awareness
meetings. Feedback was also collected during group meetings, to help women who were not
comfortable in writing or filling the feedback form. These feedback was shared with government
service providers and elected representatives of wards, which again took a lot of time as most of
the officials didn’t like the approach of getting community feedback. However, frequent visits in
small groups (community members, CA and staff) to various departments helped them to put their
voice and issues collectively and strongly. Gradually, the officials started giving time, taking
feedback and gave response. Some of the officials found the feedback process very useful as
they have limited time and large area to cover, which they find difficult to attend. The feedback
process helped in highlighting key issues to relevant departments, as a result water and
sanitation issues were solved in some of the wards. The process in the presence of CAs and
empowered community members is anticipated to continue after the closure of project.
Are there any other lessons (up to 3) which you have learned that you think may be particularly useful for other partners, grant holders, the fund
manager or for DFID? Please describe them and explain their wider relevance below.
1. Government line departments work vertically and mostly in silo; as a result the services do not reach vulnerable groups in remote areas.
Strengthening the convergent platforms at different service delivery points can help to improve service coverage.
2. Population in the un-served pockets are mostly excluded from basic services. Advocating at municipality level to organize special health camp
in coordination with other existing NGO projects can help improve coverage.
3. There is a lack of BCC materials available from the government for community sensitization in local languages. Developing pictorial material in
line with existing MCP card of government for the care givers in different languages can effectively influence community practice.
4. A major problem with government programmes in urban areas is that less priority is given to family contacts during home visits by government
frontline workers. By NGO Change Agents making joint visits with the frontline workers they are able to model need-based counselling.
Match funding of 25% plus has been secured and spent during the final year reporting period with the support of local government, panchayat and other sources of
CINI and ChildHope. Total DFID fund utilised was £159,864 which was matched by another £40,413 (25.28%). The total DFID actual expenditure for all year was
£506,078 match by another £149,729 (29%)
a. Use of DFID logo
Clause 58 of your original Grant Arrangement commits you, unless agreed otherwise, to explicitly acknowledge DFID's support through use of DFID's UK Aid logo in all
communications with the public or third parties about your project. Please outline the ways in which you have done this during the reporting period.
The DFID logo has been used on event banners, web pages, process document, video documentation and BCC awareness raising materials.
8.1 Please enter key conclusions / recommendations from the Independent Final Evaluation report – and the project management responses
Evaluation Conclusions/ Recommendations Your response
1. 1. Extension of the program activities: Majority of the stakeholders (Government We do agree with the recommendation given by KPMG. The project duration
officials, elected representatives and CBOs) categorically mentioned that for any should be for at least for five years to ensure its long lasting impact. However, at
nutritional intervention to have a significant impact, it should have duration of at least present no funding is available to continue this important work. DFID decision to
5 years. It is therefore recommended that the GPAF program should be extended for pull funding out of India in 2013 had a huge influence on other UK donors and it
at least 2 more years. now very difficult of access multiyear funding for such a genuine cause. CSR
(corporate funding in India) have their own agenda and goes along with the ruling
parties’ priorities – currently, it is Swach Bharat (Clean India). So most of the
government and CSR funds are routed towards sanitation/clean India initiatives.
However, we will be applying for the AmplifyChange fund for a phase two on
accessing service delivery in the rural project location.
3. 3. Greater Advocacy at state level: The CINI programme has some innovative best We do agree with this suggestion. We have developed process documents and
practices like Self-monitoring calendar, Beneficiary Feedback Mechanism, NREP good practice working papers of GPAF and BFM projects for learning
which have proved to be very useful. These innovations could be taken up at a larger dissemination, and advocacy at the state level for up-scaling off good practices.
level through advocacy at the state level. This will help in scaling up and
sustainability.
4. 4. Holistic Approach to attract CSR fund: Funding from CSR needs to be explored to a Some good practices of GPAF and BFM projects like self monitoring through
larger extent and brand CINI needs to be marketed for enhancing fund flow and pictorial calendar, NREP session, and community feedback mechanism have
implementing similar projects in future. However, it has been our experience that been identified and introduced in other CINI projects with funding from corporates
Corporates and PSUs are inclined towards investing in programs where there are like ITC and IT company.
tangible benefits which are visible and preferably in an around operating locations.
Interventions that improve maternal and child health can be implemented along with
other interventions on areas such as livelihood, skill development, enterprise
development where there is already some amount of community mobilization.
6. 6. Motivating the CBOs to take ownership: One major success of the programme was With the support of staff members and CA local CBOs and clubs have prepared
the investment by the Community based organization like local clubs, and SHGs etc contextual plans to continue some activities like community meetings, events like
in few of the program activities like meetings and infrastructure support. The first rice ceremony/ ceremonial function in last trimester of pregnancy, and
community should be further motivated to take up ownership of few critical activities. community feedback system.
The CBOs/ULBs/PRIs can also play a crucial role in ensuring accountability of duty
bearers in providing quality services.
7. 7. Incentivizing post natal care: Though there has been an improvement in PNC There was a significant improvement of PNC coverage from 21% (baseline) to
indicator, the overall PNC coverage is low. Greater communication efforts for PNC 59% (end-line) as per evaluation report of KPMG. The whole concept of PNC kit
should be put in future programs. Incentivizing PNC should be explored. has been appreciated by the health and family welfare department, Govt. of West
Bengal. As a result of regular meetings, relationship building and learning
sharing, state government officials have shown commitment to continue to supply
PNC kit as an incentive by adding a few more items like haemoglobin and
bilirubin kits.
8.2 Please use the space below for any further comments on the Independent Final Evaluation (IFE) report, or the IFE process.
The terms of reference was designed by ChildHope in consultation with CINI India. The process of recruiting the evaluators involved a very competitive and fair process,
where proposals where invited and shortlisted. Out of approx. 35 proposals, 8 agencies were shortlisted and interviewed. Based on the score, reputation and experience of
working on DFID programmes KPMG India was selected, and we are happy with their quality of work and report.
OUTCOME
A.0.1 Outcome: write in full your project outcome statement in the box below
Improved maternal health of pregnant women, lactating mothers and improved nutrition of children less than two years of age in nine municipal wards (all slum settlements) of
Borough VII of Kolkata District and one block (Goalpokhar 1) of North Dinajpur District of West Bengal.
A.0.2 Outcome Score: Please provide an overall outcome score (A++ to C)
A+
A.0.3 Justify the score: The score is based on an aggregate of actual achievement against all outcome indicator targets in the logframe. Please explain how you determined
this score.
The score is justified because the target has been achieved in most of the outcome indicators, referring to the project MIS and Endline Evaluation data.
1. Community competence development
2. Improved access to utilization of government services
3. Strengthening linkages with government schemes (ICDS , NHM)
4. Creating a community feedback system for making the service delivery more transparent by sharing feedback with service providers (KMC, ICDS, and Urban local
bodies) to improve service delivery
5. Community based management of child malnutrition and its linkage with institutional based care
It should be noted that most of the targets were revised and increased last year during annual reporting. Hence, in the current year the project have exceeded the
achievements compared to the original project targets.
Urban –The year 3 target was almost achieved. But still there were some cases were not admitted in the government hospital, due to inadequate beds. Some families had
home delivery due to lack of transport facilities at night.
Rural – The project has achieved the target. However, home delivery is still highly prevalent in Goalpokhar, due to distant location of PHCs and other health facilities. Most of
Progress:
98.4% (6716/6825) women attending at least 3 ANC during pregnancy in Borough VII against the year 3 milestone target 95% (6484/6825)
82.3% (6651/8082) women attending at least 3 ANC during pregnancy in Goalpokhar 1 against the year 3 milestone target 83% (6708/8082)
Change Agents and Supervisors along with frontline government health workers (ANM, ASHA, and HHW) have generated good awareness among the community during
sensitization meetings regarding the importance of ANC check up. As follow up of sensitization meetings, change agents in coordination with the frontline workers made home
contacts to ensure next ANC check up and also track the dropout mothers due for ANC.
Indicator 3:Percentage of women having completed at least 3 post-natal care (PNC) checkups within 42 days after delivery:
Progress:
66.8% (4559/6825) women having completed at least 3 PNC check- ups within 42 days after delivery in Borough VII against year 3 milestone target 65% (4436/6825)
50.2% (4057/8082) women having completed at least 3 PNC check- ups within 42 days after delivery in Goalpokhar1 against year 3 milestone target 67% (5415/8082)
The target of Goalpokhar was under achieved because some mothers were hesitant to go for the 3rd and 4th PNC check-up after delivery, since there were no health
complications, and poor communication in rural area discourage them to walk miles and still wait for the public transportation. However, they went for the first two PNC check
ups and PNC kit as incentive played a major role in that. All delivery cases were also visited at home by Change Agent and ASHA workers.
Indicator 4: Percentage of children under 2 malnourished at time of baseline which reach normal weight as per WHO growth chart. (The nutritional
status as per WHO growth chart N=normal, M=moderately underweight, S=severely underweight)
Target (Year 3) Progress
Borough VII (Total children : 8968) Borough VII : (Total children : 8967, M- 4728, F- 4240)
Male-N-71% 3356, M-16% 756, S-13 % 615 Male-Normal-73.6%(3479), Moderate-21.4% (1013), Severe- 5%(236);
Female- N-76% 3222, M-11% 466, S-13% 551 Female- N-88.7% (3761), M- 9.7%(411) , Severe-1.6%(68)
Goalpokhar, Block 1 (Total children : 12010) Goalpokhar: (Total children: 12007, M – 6332, F- 5675)
Male-N-62%-3926, M-29%-1836, S-9%-570 Male- Normal- 57% (3609), Moderate – 32.2%(2039) , Severe- 10.8% (684);
Female- N-82%-4655, M-14%-795, S-4%-227) Female- Normal -77.7%(4411) , Moderate 17.1%(969), Severe-5.2% (295)
The figures clearly shows that better income and health facilities in the urban set up has increased normal and moderate categories, at the same time decreasing the
severe cases. However, due to higher incidences of poverty, illiteracy and poor health in rural areas project such as this needs to be continued for at least a 2-3 more years
Government health service providers and project staff have been trained on importance of early initiation and exclusive breastfeeding. The CAs tracked mothers for ensuring
exclusive breastfeeding using the self monitoring calendar. Special events like breast feeding week and community based awareness camps were organised to create
awareness on necessity of exclusive breast feeding.
A.0.5 Disaggregate the number of citizens benefitting from this outcome. Describe briefly who they were and how they benefitted. Adult = 18 years and above; Child = below
18 years.
Adult Adult Child Child Total How many of the total Brief description Change/improvement
Male Female Male Female given are people with (e.g. farmers) (e.g. income increased)
disabilities (if known)? The following statements have been made referring to the
above data (A 0.4)
N.A. U – 6470 N.A. N.A. 11,263 1 women Institutional Delivery
R - 4793 They are aware of the maternal health services & importance
of institutional delivery.
N.A. U – 6715 N.A. N.A. 13,366 N.A. ANC Check up
R - 6651 The beneficiaries are The women attended 3 ANC check-ups. As a result better
Hindu, Muslims, Schedule health care was ensured before and after delivery
N.A. U - 4559 N.A. N.A. 8,616 N.A. Caste, Schedule Tribe and PNC Check up
R - 4057 migrant population from The women attended3 PNC check-ups & post delivery
neighbouring states. complications were minimized
(U- urban, R – Rural)
N.A. N.A. U – 4728 U – 4240 20,975 1 male child Nutritional status of children
R - 6332 R - 5675 There was a significant improvement in nutritional status of
children in urban areas, however in Goalpokhar there was a
Children 0-2 years slight increase in malnutrition of children.
N.A. N.A. U- 4134 U- 3695 18,541 N.A. Exclusive Breast Feeding
R - 5656 R - 5056 There was significant improvement in breast feeding
practices in both the project locations.
OUTPUT 1
A.1.1 Output 1 Write in full
Women acquire the knowledge and skills to act as volunteer Change Agents (CAs) and promote essential MCH services and increase MCH awareness among community
members.
A.1.2 Output 1 score (A++ to C)
A+
A.1.3 Justify the score: The score is based on an aggregate of actual achievement against output indicator milestones in the logframe. Please explain how you determined
this score.
Most of the target set for year three has been achieved and some exceeded.
Progress:
298 CA demonstrating increased knowledge of MCH and SRH issues in Borough 7 against year 3 milestone target 375
225 CA demonstrating increased knowledge of MCH and SRH issues in Goalpokhar 1 against year 3 milestone target 275
Trained CA’s demonstrating increased knowledge of MCH and SRH issues (Source - Final Evaluation)
Total% Urban % Rural %
4 ANC before delivery 80.5% 90.5% 100 %
100 IFA during pregnancy 73.2% 95.2% 50%
Two TT during pregnancy 100% 100% 100%
JSY provide cash after delivery 90.2% 81% 100%
PNC 4th checkup at 42 days 100% 100% 100%
The knowledge and skills are been strengthened of existing change agents (adolescent girls and women) through incremental learning during monthly meetings.
The trained change agents sensitize and educate the mothers during sensitization camps and home visits. They also track the mothers who are defaulters and ensure
compliance of services. The project created a new role of Lead Change Agents whose responsibility was to provide hand holding support to the weak and newly appointed
CAs. A number of CAs left the project after being trained due to very lower incentive, household activities or getting better job opportunities. Decision was taken in year three to
not invest time in filling the vacant positions, instead motivate and build the capacity of existing CAs. Therefore, those CAs who were more proactive and educated than others,
were given the new role of Lead CAs which proved to be successful. CAs were the backbone of the project and the most important resource for sustainability as they belong to
the same community where the project was implemented.
Indicator 1.2: Percentage of female community members demonstrating increased knowledge of at least 3 key SRH and/or MCH issues (eg. proper hygiene, nutrition &
feeding practices) as a result of peer education by CAs & Nutrition Rehabilitation Education Programme (NREP).
Progress:
77.4% (5282) female Community Members demonstrating increased knowledge of MCH and SRH issues in Borough VII against year 3 milestone target 65% (4436)
75.7% (6118) female Community Members demonstrating increased knowledge of MCH and SRH issues in Goalpokhar 1 against year 3 milestone target 60% (4849)
1155 female community members (U- 578, R – 577) were assessed during the endline evaluation to understand whether they are demonstrating increased knowledge. The
following table gives the % of women who have received the services (6 chosen indicators) of MCH and SRH, measured as demonstrating knowledge:
Female Community Members demonstrating increased knowledge of MCH and SRH issues
Total % Urban % Rural %
4 ANC 90.4% 98.4% 82.3%
100 IFA during pregnancy 94.8% 92.6% 96.4%
Two TT during pregnancy 98.7% 98.8% 98.6%
Received money from JSY after delivery 28.5% 21% 37%
Received four PNC checkups within 42 days 58.9% 66.8% 50.2%
Exclusive Breast Feeding 88.2% 87.3 % 89.3%
Average 76.6% 77.4% 75.7%
The CAs and Supervisors counselled the female community members and provide support to maintain and fill in the Self monitoring calendar. Continuous awareness
programmes on ANC, PNC, JSY and child care were organised. The CAs tracked community members, followed by home visits to assess the practice level behaviours.
Output 2
A.2.1 Output 2 Write in full:
Enhanced capacity of key stakeholders and service providers (CINI staff, government Integrated Child Development Services ICDS and National Rural Health Mission
supervisors) enables quality service delivery.
A.2.2 Output 2 score (A++ to C)
A+
A.2.3 Justify the score: The score is based on an aggregate of actual achievement against output indicator milestones in the logframe. Please explain how you determined
this score.
The target was achieved and exceeded. Active engagement with government service providers and participation of communities has been a key factor.
Progress:
386 government health professionals trained in DFID-funded project interventions in Borough VII against milestone 3 target 300
1419 government health professionals trained in DFID-funded project interventions in Goalpokhar I against milestone 3 target 1019
Structural and refresher training was organised for government health professionals through different government convergent meetings. The government health functionaries
(medical officers, honorary health workers, Anganwadi workers, ASHA) of ICDS and NRHM program at the district, Block and Borough have been trained on project
interventions, especially on government schemes and policies. The orientation enabled them to improve service delivery in the outreach pockets based on the operational gaps
identified.
Indicator 2.2:Number of community feedback report cards showing improved quantity and quality of services provided by the Government health providers(focussing on JSY
and ANC/ PNC check-ups)
Progress:
9 Report cards were prepared in Borough VII against milestone 3 target of 10. This was facilitated in 17 Ward Sabhas (urban parliament)
12 Report cards were prepared in Goalpokhar 1 against milestone 3 target of 10. This was facilitated in 178 Sansad level meetings.
The existing convergent platforms in urban locations were strengthened. The representatives from KMC, ICDS, Urban local bodies, elected councillors of each ward were
engaged in reviewing the feedback given by community members on government services. Ward wise action plan was made in presence of community members and followed
up in the following meetings. The information was incorporated in the community report card to assess the progress against the plan.
In Goalpokhar, the community members and government service providers were oriented on the process and purpose of Community report card and the importance of Gram
Sabha (village parliament). Feedback was collected from 178 sansads of14 panchayat. The information was shared during gram sabha which enabled them to prepare the
VHSNC plan with optimal utilization of the available fund.
Indicator 2.3: Number of CINI staff (direct project staff) trained in a range of development approaches by ChildHope UK
Target: 30 CINI staff trained in Child and Young Peoples Safeguarding (Protection, Participation, etc); finance management.
Progress: 30 project and organisation staff trained on Child and Young Child Participation (CYPP) and Safeguarding, finance management, Participatory learning, etc.
Progress:
In 2014, 30 staff were trained on finance management, child protection and young people’s participation meeting project target. However, in the final year in
2015, same number of staff were trained on participatory learning approaches, exchange of best practices and finalising the exit plan. In addition to this, 4 staff
Output 3
A.3.1 Output 3 Write in full
Change Agents jointly with government health field workers organised awareness camps on early registration and antenatal care among community members followed by
home visits. Along with this, several community meetings and individual household interaction took place to raise the awareness.
Indicator 3.2:Percentage of pregnant women aware of the need for Post Natal Care (PNC) check-ups
Progress:
96.2% (6566/6825) pregnant women aware of the need for Post Natal Care (PNC) check-ups in Borough VII against year 2 milestone target 93% (6347/6825)
86.8% (7015/8082) pregnant women aware of the need for Post Natal Care (PNC) check-ups in Goalpokhar 1 against year 2 milestone target 87% (7031/8082)
PNC awareness has improved after repeated awareness sessions by CAs on the need of PNC post delivery with the community members.
Indicator 3.3: Number of moderately & severely malnourished children 0-2 years without complications accessing NREP supplementary feeding programme
Progress:
29% {465 (F- 176, M - 289)/ 1610 (identified in field) } moderately & severely malnourished children 0-2 years without complications accessing NREP supplementary feeding
programme in Borough VII against year 3 milestone target 2136 (F -1004, M – 1132)
Children attending NREP : Severe 93 (F – 53, M – 40) , Mod 372 (F – 123, M – 249) – 4 disabled
37% {2232 (F – 870 , M – 1362)/ 5979 (identified in field)} moderately & severely malnourished children 0-2 years without complications accessing NREP supplementary
feeding programme in Goalpokhar I against year 3 milestone target 1296 (F – 660, M – 636)
Children attending NREP: Severe - 416 (F-237, M-179), M 1815 (F- 632, M – 1183)
NREP sessions were conducted in all the locations during the reporting period - 77 U, 192 R. Later on, children were enrolled in government ICDS centers for supplementary
nutrition. The children were screened by change agents using WHO growth chart and were referred to NREP sessions those who are moderately and severely malnourished
without medical complications for special nutrition supplementation and care for 12 days. The weight of those children were taken before the NREP session started and further
weight taken to see the improvement of nutritional status of children on the last day. These children were followed up for 18 days by the change agents during home visits to
see the mothers practice on child care learned from NREP sessions. The impact of NREP session for reduction of child malnutrition were as follows:
Urban Rural
Severely underweight to Moderately underweight to Remarks Severely underweight to Moderately underweight Remarks
moderately underweight normal weight moderately underweight to normal weight
25 out of 93 (27%) 65 out of 372 (17%) NREP sessions were 242 out of 417 (58%) 601 out of 1815 (33%) NREP sessions were
465 total Children 465 total Children repeated in high burden 2232 total Children 1623 total Children repeated in high
wards burden wards
Indicator 3.4:Number of severely/ acutely malnourished children 0-2 years with complications referred to govt-run Nutrition Rehabilitation Centres (NRCs) for therapeutic food,
medicine & food for mother:
Progress:
7 (F – 6, M – 1) out of 38 children identified severe/ acute malnourished children 0-2 years with complications referred to govt-run Nutrition Rehabilitation Centres (NRCs) for
therapeutic food, medicine & food for mother in Borough VII against year 3 milestone target 405 (F – 215, M – 190)
283 (F – 151, M – 132) out of 298 children identified severe/ acute malnourished children 0-2 years with complications referred to govt-run Nutrition Rehabilitation Centres
(NRCs) for therapeutic food, medicine & food for mother in Goalpokhar 1 against year 3 milestone target 147 (F- 75, M – 72)
Number of severely malnourished children with medical complications referred to NRC by supervisors for inpatient treatment. The targets in Borough VII were underachieved
due to the following reason:
1. Child admitted with 1 caregiver can stay in the NRC – women not willing to go as they have older children to take care of, along with their job
2. Number of days (12) were too long for a woman to leave her household chores
3. Only 1 NRC was available in the vicinity, but even this centre was far from the field locations
4. Currently, in Urban areas due to shortage of bed, NRC were not admitting children immediately, they are first referred to hospital doctor and then shifted to NRC, thereby
lengthening the whole treatment time
Indicator 3.5:Percentage of women receiving PNC kits
Progress:
64.2% (4381/6825) of women receiving PNC kits in Borough VII against year 3 milestone target 49% (3345/6825)
Progress:
92.6% (6320/6825) eligible women (giving birth and receiving PNC in government facilities) knowledgeable about JSY scheme in Borough VII against year 3 milestone
target 78% (5324/6825)
90%(7274/8082) eligible women (giving birth and receiving PNC in government facilities) knowledgeable about JSY scheme in Goalpokhar against year 3 milestone target
72% (5819/8082)
Staff and CAs had to put in lot of efforts to sensitise the community on JSY scheme. The oriented club members, the panchayat and ward councillors also supported
change agents to organise awareness camps
Change agent and ASHA jointly followed up cases and ensured referral of mothers for JSY enrolment
A.4.5 Disaggregate the number of citizens engaged with this output. Describe briefly who they were and how they were engaged. Adult = 18 years and above; Child =
below 18 years.
How many of the total
Adult Adult Child Child
Total given are people with Brief description Nature of engagement
Male Female Male Female
disabilities (if known)?
U- 6320 The mothers who attended meeting on JSY scheme,
N.A. N.A. N.A.
R- 7274 13,594 marginalized population and minority
U- 5890 The mothers are from marginalized population and minority
N.A. N.A. N.A. 12,137
R - 6247
A.4.6 State the evidence used to measure the progress described and comment on its strength Please refer to the preceding guidance on how to complete the section
effectively.
Achievement are sourced from end line survey and evaluation of the project & calculated on the basis of Project MIS. The end line survey and evaluation was done by
Independent external agency KPMG-India who are known for their credibility and have many such relevant experience of working on DFID projects.
Output 5
A.5.1 Output Write in full
Increased awareness, involvement and coordination of stakeholders in Janani Suraksha Yojana (JSY), Ante and Post Natal Care (ANC & PNC) services and Integrated
Child Development Services (ICDS)
A.5.2 Output 5 score (A++ to C)
A ++
A.5.3 Justify the score: The score is based on an aggregate of actual achievement against output indicator milestones in the logframe. Please explain how you
determined this score.
The club members were sensitized frequently on their support to increasing awareness, monitoring activities. The SHG groups were actively involved to support community
sensitization activities with support of change agents, most of them are part of SHGs.
Progress:
U – 162 (total club) Community-Based Organisations (CBOs) showing greater awareness on MCH services and related health/ social welfare schemes in Borough VII
against year 3 milestone target 300
R – 189 (total clubs) Community-Based Organisations (CBOs) showing greater awareness on MCH services and related health/ social welfare schemes in Goalpokhar 1
against year 3 milestone target 100
In Goalpokhar I, In year 3 we had reached out to 189 clubs against the revised target of 100. However, only 162 CBOs actively participated and shown awareness on MCH
and other health/social services. The main reason on underachievement in the urban areas was non-availability of the urban club members. In urban areas, most of the
local clubs members are engaged either in full time job or in business, and it was difficult for them to find time for these activities – despite of follow up meetings. Also,
some of them had other priorities and did not show any interest.
Indicator 5.2:Number of sensitization meetings on project interventions e.g. ANC, PNC, JSY, NREP approach, etc. organised by CINI at ward, block, district and state
level with key stakeholder
Progress:
State level dissemination meet - 1 meeting
247 meetings (3 district+ 244 ward level) with stakeholders organised in Borough VII against year 3 milestone target 12
178 meetings with stakeholders organised in Goalpokhar 1 against year 3 milestone target of 17
All the convergent meetings, 1st, 2nd, 3rd Saturday meetings, VHSNC meetings etc. have been factored to the achieved number, as a result the target is over achieved. This
was important in order to phase out and hand over some of the project activities. CAs conducted meetings in the presence of staff members (mentoring process) with
government and panchayat workers.
Indicator 5.3: Number of SHGs actively involved in promoting MCH services, PNC kits and welfare schemes
Progress:
17 groups of 150 member SHGs actively involved in promoting MCH services, PNC kits and welfare schemes in Borough VII against year 3 milestone target of 8
97 groups of 1168 members SHGs actively involved in promoting MCH services, PNC kits and welfare schemes in Goalpokhar 1 against year 3 milestone target of 5
Many change agents of GPAF projects were also the active members of existing SHGs who were engaged in sensitising the community in GPAF project interventions and
sensitise the other members of SHG to support their family. Also, SHG members are mostly women and where able to connect with the issues related to MCH. Therefore,
the targets were easily met and exceeded.
You will need to use the beneficiary figures for the outcome level in Annex A to arrive at a consolidated total number of people benefitting.
If the same beneficiaries are represented in more than one of the outcome indicators and have therefore benefitted in more than one way, please ensure you do not double count
them when calculating the consolidated total. (See FAQs for further guidance.)
The figure has been derived from the project MIS avoiding double counting.
- Adult Male numbers were not counted in the previous years as the main focus was women and children, however, in the final year a lot of work has also been done with adult male
through clubs and government official, hence their numbers are included in the report.
- Adult female numbers are similar as reported last year as the activities implemented were in the same communities. They have benefitted from at least one of the services, e.g.
Awareness programmes, NRC, NREP, ANC, PNC and Skilled Institutional delivery. Until last year, the number was 23555, increased to 25,460 in the final year.
- Children (0-2 years male & female) who were assessed in the normal and moderate nutritional status in the reporting period through rapid assessment, benefiting from the project
intervention. Male child until year 3 was 10,137 which increased to 13,887 in the final year. Female child until year 3 was 9226, increased to 12486 in the final year.
Severe status children numbers are not included as their nutritional status were yet to be assessed as improved.
b. Provide a clear summary description of all your outcome level beneficiaries (e.g., people living with HIV/AIDS; disabled children; soapstone workers; child labourers) and how
b. Did you disaggregate your data collection any further to better understand your beneficiaries? Examples might include extreme poor, widows, orphaned children, older men and
women, ethnic groups, socio-economic status).
N.A.
c. How did the collection and analysis of disaggregated data (including by gender and disability) influence project design, approach, delivery or learning?
Gender disaggregate data generated from project MIS was used to reach out to deprived women and children. During the entire project implementation, only 4 disabled children
were identified. Parents of these children were referred to government hospital and linked with the existing government social welfare schemes.
c. Describe any activities taken by the project to build climate change resilience (use bullet points)
N.A.