The purpose of the evaluability assessment is to prepare Cash Plus for evaluation in 2022, alongside the transition of UNICEF’s Universal Cash Transfer (UCT) program to the Social Fund for Development (SFD) and eventually to the Social Welfare Fund (SWF) in future. The assessment will provide a systematic assessment of whether the program is justified, feasibly, likely to produce useful information, and ready for meaningful evaluation. It will also provide recommendations to inform future program design in the period between the assessment and the Cash Plus evaluation. The assessment will benefit UNICEF and its partners, including the SWF, for future program planning and coordination of the Cash Plus evaluation. The assessment will provide UNICEF, the SWF, local authorities, other UN agencies, donors, communities, private sector partners, and rights-holders with an assessment of Cash Plus’ readiness for evaluation in 2022, as well as recommendations UNICEF and partners can undertake to better ready the program for evaluation. More specifically, the objectives of the assessment are to: assess the program design’s logic and structure to ensure that: there is agreement among program stakeholders; the logic and structure are clear, relevant, plausible, valid, and consistent; and the logic and structure take account of context and complexity; identify gaps in the availability and accessibility of data and information that may be required for a robust evaluation; assess UNICEF and stakeholders’ institutional contexts for the practicality and utility of an evaluation of Cash Plus in 2022; identify potential geographical scope for a 2022 evaluation of Cash Plus based on the above criteria; and provide recommendations for the adjustment of Cash Plus practices to strengthen the program’s logic and structure, ensure the availability and accessibility of data, and account for institutional contexts in preparation for an evaluation in 2022.
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Type | |
Joint | No |
Partner/s | N/A |
Consultant name | Fadhel Abdullah Alsheikh |
Agency Focal Point | Sarah Capper |
Focal Point Email | scapper@unicef.org |
Managed by Independent Evaluation Office | No |
Geographic Scope | Country |
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