The purpose of the evaluation was to determine the relevance, effectiveness, impact, efficiency and sustainability of the Teen Club initiative in addressing the needs of ALHIV in Eswatini. The evaluation also assessed the extent to which the Teen Clubs for ALHIV achieved their intended objective over the last 5 five years, the period covering the evaluation, and to provide recommendations on how to scale up the initiative and make relevant adjustments in the programme.
Specific Objectives
The specific objectives of the evaluation were:
•To provide current status of the functioning of the Teen Clubs, membership (age and sex), type of activities conducted, trained teen leaders (including sex disaggregation) at each site and the management and mentoring aspects.
•To assess the quality of outputs, outcomes and results of the project related to knowledge, attitude and practices among active and former Teen Club members in the four facilities, on issues related to their health and well-being.
•To determine the effectiveness of the Teen Club model in providing support to adolescents in disclosing their status, transitioning between pediatric and adult care and treatment services, acquiring quality HIV information and education, adhering to treatment and adopting safe sexual behaviours.
•To identify key and unique needs of adolescent boys and girls, the differentiated needs of rural and urban based adolescents and whether these were met by the programme interventions.
•To identify key good practices and key lessons learnt, identify gaps, what strategies and interventions to continue and/or discontinue, and to what extent and make recommendations for future improvement based on evaluation findings.
•To determine the extent to which the programme took a rights based approach both in its design and implementation.
•To determine the extent to which the programme factored in gender and equity issues in its design and implementation.
Year Published | |
Type | |
Joint | No |
Partner/s | N/A |
Consultant name | |
Agency Focal Point | Nelisiwe Dlamini |
Focal Point Email | ndlamini@unicef.org |
Managed by Independent Evaluation Office | No |
Geographic Scope | Country |
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