Overview
"This Joint Evaluation was commissioned by the International Labour Organization (ILO), the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), the United Nations International Children’s Emergency Fund (UNICEF), the United Nations Entity for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women (UN WOMEN) and the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) under the auspices of the Resident Coordinator’s Office for Barbados and the Eastern Caribbean.
The evaluation was summative in nature and covered all activities under the Joint Programme for enhancing resilience and acceleration of the Sustainable Development Goals in the Eastern Caribbean. The Joint Programme sought to develop adaptive and universal social protection systems in Barbados, Saint Lucia, and other countries in the Eastern Caribbean (through the Organization of Eastern Caribbean Stated) between January 2020 through mid-March 2022 under the JP.
The evaluation objectives were accountability and learning, for which the external evaluation team proposed mixed-method, theory-based, and utilization-focused approach. The data collection methods used included key informant interviews (17 women and 10 men), and 10 beneficiary households (6 women and 4 men); desk review of key project documents and related studies; a case study on ‘Jointness’ was produced; and the team also conducted a stakeholder debriefing during which polling exercises were conducted to gain additional insights on preliminary findings.