Progress Inc: Learning  & Adapting

Client: UNESCO

The mid-term evaluation assess the relevance, effectiveness, and efficiency of a project aimed at enhancing LGBTIQ+ inclusive learning spaces in Asia during its implementation from October 2021 to October 2024. It identifies challenges, highlights best practices, and provides evidence-based recommendations to guide ongoing and future activities. The evaluation involves a comprehensive review of project documents, stakeholder mapping, and the development of data collection tools for surveys, interviews, and focus group discussions. Engaging diverse stakeholders, including youth networks, implementing partners, and educational institutions, it ensures inclusive representation of LGBTIQ+ voices. Key activities includes producing a narrative report, delivering findings, co-facilitating validation workshops, and synthesizing feedback for the final report.

Client: IOM

Client: Habitat for Humanity

Habitat for Humanity Nepal’s four-year project (2020–2024) aimed to enhance financial security and safe housing for low-income women in Eastern Nepal (Jhapa, Morang, Saptari, Udayapur) by improving access to financial services. The project provided financial literacy, awareness of microfinance products, and safe housing guidance while strengthening Microfinance Institutions’ capacity to offer client-focused housing loans. Key outcomes included empowering marginalized women through financial inclusion and improving MFI capabilities to support low-income communities.

Client: PSI

The project aims to conduct a participatory evaluation of the MOMENTUM Private Healthcare Delivery Project in Nepal using the MSC approach. This evaluation seeks to assess the effectiveness and impact of the project’s interventions in improving private healthcare delivery, particularly in the context of family planning, reproductive health, and maternal and newborn health. The overarching goal is to gather qualitative data that reflects the experiences and changes perceived by beneficiaries, thereby informing future program strategies and enhancing the overall quality of healthcare services in the region

Client: IOM

Client: UNESCO

The mid-term evaluation assess the relevance, effectiveness, and efficiency of a project aimed at enhancing LGBTIQ+ inclusive learning spaces in Asia during its implementation from October 2021 to October 2024. It identifies challenges, highlights best practices, and provides evidence-based recommendations to guide ongoing and future activities. The evaluation involves a comprehensive review of project documents, stakeholder mapping, and the development of data collection tools for surveys, interviews, and focus group discussions. Engaging diverse stakeholders, including youth networks, implementing partners, and educational institutions, it ensures inclusive representation of LGBTIQ+ voices. Key activities includes producing a narrative report, delivering findings, co-facilitating validation workshops, and synthesizing feedback for the final report.

Client: UNDP

Governance reforms in Nepal faced ongoing challenges, particularly in addressing data gaps for SDG 16 (Peace, Justice, and Strong Institutions) and SDG 5 (Gender Equality). The 2024 Asia and Pacific SDG Progress Report highlighted insufficient data, with only 133 of 231 indicators having adequate information and significant gaps in monitoring SDG 16. By 2020, Nepal had data for only 17 of the 32 adopted indicators for SDG 16. To address these issues, UNDP Nepal, in collaboration with UN Women and the Government of Nepal, conducted the Trust in Governance and Participation in Decision-Making in Nepal study. The study will assess public perceptions of transparency, accountability, service delivery, safety, and inclusiveness across all levels of governance. It aims to generate data to inform governance reforms, support SDG monitoring, and establish a baseline for the United Nations Sustainable Development Cooperation Framework (2023–2027), focusing on public trust, satisfaction with services, and social inclusion.

Client: Save the Children

Client: VSO

The assessment will conduct a comprehensive reflection and systematic evaluation of the ACTIVE project’s Theory of Change, focusing on outcome-wise learnings to enhance future implementation strategies and achieve project goals. It will evaluate the adoption of an integrated programming approach and value-for-money practices while analyzing project-driven results, including improved access to inclusive services, the effectiveness of Early Intervention Programs, and enhanced school governance through parental involvement and CRM. The assessment will also examine primary actors’ engagement in local planning and budget processes, health system improvements via social accountability tools, and integrated health and education programs, documented as case studies. Using the OECD/DAC framework, the evaluation will measure relevance, effectiveness, efficiency, impact, and sustainability. It will assess alignment with marginalized communities’ needs, the achievement of intended outcomes, efficient use of resources, tangible impacts on governance and service delivery, and the sustainability of youth empowerment strategies. The findings will inform recommendations to strengthen project implementation and impact.

Client: Youth Alive

Client: Youth Alive

Client: IPTM

The workshop session was about Monitoring and Evaluation (M&E), with representatives from the Ministry of Bhutan in attendance. The session focused on the development and use of Logframes and Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) within a Result-Based M&E system. The discussion emphasized how Logframes serve as a planning tool to clearly define project objectives and measurement methods, ensuring clarity and beneficiary involvement. KPIs were categorized into input, process, output, outcome, and impact indicators, following SMART criteria to track project progress. Various M&E tools such as surveys, interviews, focus group discussions, and participatory rural appraisal were highlighted for capturing data and assessing project effectiveness, relevance, sustainability, and impact. Additionally, case studies and other reflective tools were presented to capture lessons learned and inform future decision-making in project implementation.

Date of implementation: June to August 2021

Client: Save the Children

Date of implementation: June 2021

Client: Practical Action

Date of implementation: July 2020

Client: VSO