Joint Programme Evaluation final evaluation report august 2016 DanChurchAid (dca) Jhamsikhel, Lalitpur Nepal Dr. Prakash Bhattarai and Dr. Dhruba Gautam

Annex 2: Skills and Experiences of the Consultants

Dhruba Gautum, PhD
Dhruba (PhD in Sociology), a DRR and CCA specialist, started his development career with USAID, followed by Plan Nepal, Ford Foundation and European Union in different capacities and was mostly engaged in disaster, water, and climate change related issues. In the last 25 years (1991-2016), he has contributed as a technical advisor in different sectors like climate change adaptation (CCA), humanitarian response, vulnerability analysis, disaster risk reduction (DRR), and contemporary socio-economic issues through evaluations and research with development partners like the World Bank, Asian Development Bank and UN agencies, International NGOs, academic institutions and civil society organizations. Between 2004 and 2016, he has evaluated 26 projects related to emergency, CCA and DRR in the Asia Region. Between 2004 and 2016, he has evaluated more than 26 projects in the South Asia Region. Similarly he has contributed 19 assignments on vulnerability analysis and disaster risk management; 15 assignments on climate change, climate sustainability and food security; 14 assignments on socio-economic inclusion, gender, assessment of rural poverty, inequality and human rights; 7 assignments on institutional development, and capacity development; and 4 assignments on water and forest governance/ natural resources.
Prakash Bhattarai, PhD
Prakash Bhattarai, one of the team members for this joint programme evaluation holds a doctorate in Peace and Conflict Studies from the University of Otago, New Zealand. Dr. Bhattarai also holds master’s degrees in Population Studies (Tribhuvan University, Nepal) and in International Peace Studies (University of Notre Dame, USA), and has been a visiting research scholar (April-June 2013) at the Department of Peace and Conflict Research, Uppsala University, Sweden. He has published articles in peer reviewed journals and reports on issues surrounding youth, migration, goverance, and politics and the peace processes in Nepal and the Philippines. Dr. Bhattarai has 18 years of professional and leadership experience on issues surrounding democracy, peacebuilding, migration, and youth issues. He has worked as evaluation consultant for peacebuilding, security, violence prevention, community mediation, governance, migration, youth and gender related projects with his association with various organisations in Nepal and abroad including United Nations Development Programme (UPDP), International Organization for Migration (IOM), Search for Common Ground (SFCG), Catholic Relief Services Philippines, Friends for Peace Nepal, The Asia Foundation (TAF), Alliance for Peace /Governance Facility and recently with Safer World for evaluating their Community Initiatives for Common Understanding project.

Annex 3: Evaluation Work Plan

Field visit plan of East Region of Nepal (July 9-12)

Date	District/VDC	Place	Activities	Time
July 9, 2016	Udaypur	Gaighat	Visit project sites of both the organizations in Udayapur while travelling to Gaighat	8:00-6:00
July 10, 2016	Udaypur/Saptari	Rajbiraj	LWF, KVS and WOREC team should organize a brief meeting with district level stakeholders and own team (LWF, WOREC, KVS)	8:00-6:00
July 11, 2016	Sunsari	Project area	Visit some project site	8:00-6:00
July 12, 2016	Sunsari	Itahari	Meeting with jagaran Nepal	9:00-5:00

Field visit plan of Mid-and-Far-West Region of Nepal (July 13-18, 2016)

Date	District/VDC	Place	Activities	Time
13 July 2016	Banke	Kathmandu-Banke		7-11am
	Bardiya	Guleriya	Consultation meeting with POURAKHI local staff, field visits to two sites and discussion with local journalist	11:00- 7:00
14 July 2016	Kanchanpur/Kailali	Mahendranagar/ Dhangadhi	Consultation meeting with NNSWA and FAYA team, field consultation in NSWA project area	6:00-7:00
15 July 2016	Dhangadhi	Banlek	Field visit	12:00
	Banlek	Banlek-4	Lunch Sutara Hotel	12:00-1:00
	Banlek	Badekhola-9	Demo plot of kitchen visit Ma Bahadur Sharki	1:00-2:00
	Banlek	Banidungrishain-4,3,	Seed bank observation and discussion	2:00-2:30
	Banlek	Meeting with group including CAG member, Group member, Trained women and gift catalogue group member	Meetings and discussion and dialogue	2:30-4:00
	Banlek	Banlek to silgadhi	Stay in Silgadhisaileshori Guest house	4:00-5:30
16 July 2016	Silgadhi	Silgadhi to DCA office	Breakfast	7:30-8:00
	Silgadhi	DCA office Doti	Program presentation of FEDO,RDC,EDC	8:00-10:00
	Silgadhi	Silgadhi to Sanagaun-5	reached in groups	10:00-11:00
	Sanagaun	Majhgaun-5	Meeting with group and discussion of RDC-Nepal	11:00-12:00
	Sanagaun	Agriculture field Office-3	Meeting with group including CAG member, Group member and Trained women	12:00 to 1:00
	Sanagaun	SajhaghatDoti	Lunch Break and close the day plan	1:00-2:00
	Sanagaun	Sajhghat to Sanfabaghar	Traveling	2:00-4:00
	Silgadhi	Silgadhi to Sanfe
17 July 2016		Sanfebagar	Sanfe to Jayagadh	7:00-8:00
		Jayagadh	Jayagadh to Lidi	8 :00- 9:00
	Kalika	Lidi -4	Monitoring of Irrigation project and discussion to users on project activities	9 :00 to 10:00
		Jayagadh	Back to Jayagadh	10 :00- 11.30
	Bardadevi	Bardadevi Cooperative office	Meeting with cooperative members and other stakeholder, discussion on collection center and other project activities	12 :00- 1:00