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

Acknowledgement 1

List of Acronyms 2

Executive Summary 3

1. An Overview of DCA’s Intervention in South Asia and South East Asia 8

1.1 Objectives of the Evaluation 10

1.3 Methods and Methodology of Evaluation 10

1.3.1 Data Collection 10

1.3.2 Data Analysis and Report Preparation 11

1.3.3. Limitations 12

2. Key Findings 12

2.1 Relevance 12

2.1.1 Migrant Rights Programme 12

2.1.2 Inclusive Citizenship for Accountable Governance Programme 13

2.1.3 Resilient Livelihood and Sustainable Food Security Programme 14

2.1.4 Humanitarian Response 14

2.2 Effectiveness 15

2.2.1 Migrant Rights Programme 15

2.2.2 Inclusive Citizenship for Accountable Governance Programme 19

2.2.3 Resilient Livelihood and Sustainable Food Security Programme 21

2.2.4 Humanitarian Response 24

2.3 Efficiency 28

2.3.1 Migrant Rights Programme 28

2.3.2 Inclusive Citizenship for Accountable Governance 29

2.3.3 Resilient Livelihood and Sustainable Food Security 30

2.3.4 Humanitarian Response 31

2.4 Impact 32

2.4.1 Migrant Rights Programme 32

2.4.2 Inclusive Citizenship for Accountable Governance 34

2.4.3 Resilient Livelihood and Sustainable Food Security 37

2.4.4 Humanitarian Response 37

2.5 Sustainability 39

2.5.1 Migrant Rights Programme 39

2.5.2 Inclusive Citizenship for Accountable Governance 39

2.5.3 Resilient Livelihood and Sustainable Food Security 40

2.5.4 Humanitarian Response 41

3. Conclusions 42

4. Recommendations 43

4.1 Migrant Rights Programme 43

4.2 Inclusive Citizenship for Accountable Governance Programme 46

4.3 Resilient Livelihood and Sustainable Food Security Programme 47

4.4 Humanitarian Response 49

5. Other Recommendations 51

Annexes 53

Annex 1: ToR for Impact Evaluation of Joint Programme and Context Analysis 54

Annex 2: Skills and Experiences of the Consultants 61

Annex 3: Evaluation Work Plan 62

Annex 4: Evaluation Questionnaires for Field Research 64

Questionnaire 64

Annex 5: List of people met in Nepal and Bangladesh 68

Joint Programme Evaluation

1. An Overview of DCA’s Intervention in South Asia and South East Asia

DCA has been working in four major thematic areas in South Asia and South East Asian region. These include Inclusive Citizenship for Accountable Governance (ICAG), Migrants’ Rights Programme (MRP), Resilient Livelihood and Sustainable Food Security (RLSFS), and Humanitarian Response and Disaster Risk Reduction Programme (HR &DRR).
The overarching objective of MRP is to create an enabling environment for developing and implementing rights-based migrant’s policies and programme, through which migrant workers will be empowered to claim their rights; civil society holds governments and other duty bearers accountable for ensuring rights of migrant workers; and CSOs and government institutions working on migration will be strengthened. MRP takes a comprehensive approachthat addresses rights issues of migrants in countries of origin, transit, and destination throughout the region.
DCA has been working with partner organisations throughout South and Southeast Asia for the past one decade in trying to address migrant workers’ issues in countries of origin, transit, and destination through a combination of grassroots education on safe migration, capacity building of civil society and government institutions, as well as national, regional, and international-level advocacy on migrants’ rights. DCA’s regional MRP (2012-16) in South and Southeast Asia represents the second phase of the former Asia Safe Migration (ASM) Programme (2007-11), and is currently being implemented through 11 partners in seven core countries. Among 11partners, Pourakhi and Women’s Rehabilitation Centre (WOREC) are two partners in Nepal; Bangladeshi OvibashiMohilaSramik Association (BOMSA) and WARBE in Bangladesh; Legal Support for Children and Women (LSCW), IDEA, Cambodian Female Migrants Network (CFMN), and Cambodian Youth Network (CYN) in Cambodia; Migrant Workers Rights Network (MWRN) in Myanmar; Tenaganita in Malaysia, Global Alliance Against Traffic in Women (GAATW) in Thailand and Migrant Forum in Asia (MFA) in the Philippines. GAATW and MFA are two regional network partners of DCA. Women –especially women in domestic work, workers in irregular situations, migrant workers in detention/conflict with the law, informal workers in abusive/ trafficked situations, migrant leaders/defenders, and migrant workers in situations of emergency is defined as DCA’s impact groups under MRP.
Likewise, the ICAG programme of DCA focuses on a range of barriers which prevent Dalits and women from their constitutionally mandated and effective participation in the political life of the countries they belong to, an aspect of citizenship often denied to them. The overarching goal of ICAG programme is to provide a favourable environment for women and men from discriminated communities to enjoy their rights to participate for furthering accountable governance and for fostering a culture of equality and diversity, through which a) discriminated women will get an opportunity for enhancing their leadership capacity for furthering their participation in decision making processes and structures, b) Dalits and other excluded groups will increase their participation within state and social institutions contributing towards the elimination of all forms of discrimination, including caste-based discrimination, and c) W/HRDs and their organisations will be capacitated and protected, and the state and its human rights institutions increasingly recognise and respect this with relevant laws and policies.
ICAG is a regional programme that covers three countries of South Asia- India, Nepal and Bangladesh. The programme interventions are focused on grassroots level to policy engagement in all three countries. There are cross-continental linkages at the Asia and EU level in the programme as well. In order to achieve this goal, DCA works with altogether 17 partners in four different countries. Among them, Dalit Welfare Organisation (DWO), Feminist Dalit Organization (FEDO), Informal Sector Service Centre (INSEC), Jagaran Nepal, and Nepal National Dalit Social Welfare Organisation(NNDSW) are five partner organisations in Nepal; Dushtha Shasthya Kendra (DSK) NagorikUddyog, “The Citizen’s Initiative,” Rangpur Dinajpur Rural Service (RDRS), and Steps Towards Development in Bangladesh; and Centre For Dalit Rights, Centre for Promotional of Social Concern /People’s Watch, Centre for Study of Society and Secularism, Meera Welfare Society (MWS), Nari Suraksha Samiti (NSS), National Alliance of Women organisation (NAWO) in India. DCA also has two international partners, where Asian Forum for Human Rights and Development (FORUM-ASIA) is based in Thailand and International Dalit Solidarity Network (ISDN) based in Denmark.
The ICAG programme intervenes in areas which lack protection for human rights and human rights defenders with many instances of violations and non-application of state legislation. It focuses on creating enabling environment for Women Human Rights Defenders (W/HRDs) and CSOs, encourage political participation of discriminated women in decision-making processes and increase participation of Dalits and other excluded groups in decision-making across state and social institutions.
DCA’s regional RLSFS Programme in South Asia (earlier right to food + disaster risk reduction programme), and is currently being implemented through partners in three countries: Nepal, India and Bangladesh. The programme intends to address the key problems that obstruct food, livelihood and nutritional security of the most vulnerable communities in Nepal, Bangladesh and India. To address the problems of women and Dalit, the development objectives of ICAG programme is to ensure “resilient livelihoods and sustainable food security of excluded and marginalised women and men in disaster prone and food insecure areas in Nepal, India and Bangladesh.” In order to achieve this development objective, DCA has been coordinating with national and regional level stakeholders. At national and regional level, DCA also works on policy advocacy on Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR), climate change adaptation and food security/livelihood issues through representation in executive committees/membership in networks/forums like AIN/DPNET in Nepal, Sphere India and Disaster Emergency Group and Cluster approaches in Bangladesh. ACT alliance forums in all three countries have taken up the issues at national and cross-border level around preparedness, contingency planning, and addressing resilience in the context of food security.
Four partners in Nepal are working under RLSFS programme, namely, Forum for Awareness and Youth Activity (FAYA), Lutheran World Federation (LWF), Indreni Rural Development Centre (IRDC), and Nepal National Social Welfare Association (NNSWA). Three partners namely RDRS, Dushtha Shasthya Kendra (DSK) and Friends in Village Development Bangladesh (FIVDB) have been contributing in Bangladesh. In India, a total of 14 partners namely, State Advisor- Orissa, Astha, Centre for Equity Studies (CES), Indo-Global Social Service Society (IGSSS), Centre for Science and Environment (CSE), Society for the Promotion of Rural Education and Development International (SPREAD), Lutheran World Service India Trust (LWSIT), Regional Centre for Development Cooperation (RCDC), DISHA, Mahatma Gandhi Seva Ashram (MGSA), India Development Foundation (IDF), Church’s Auxiliary for Social Action (CASA), and SAHNIVASA.
Moreover, DCA's humanitarian response and DRR programme addresses vulnerabilities in relation to predictable or recurring events to reduce the effects of disasters on people, property and the environment. Also, it provides immediate humanitarian assistance to the people affected by conflicts and natural disasters. DCA’s humanitarian action is responding to humanitarian crises mostly through short-term stand-alone projects and in many cases linking immediate response interventions to DCA’s right to food and DRR and livelihood interventions. The overall objective of the humanitarian response programme is “to provide immediate humanitarian assistance to the people effected by disasters and conflicts during the emergencies and link to rehabilitation and recovery activities for improving their resilience and returning to their daily livelihoods post-disaster.”
For humanitarian response, six partners namely LWF, FAYA, IRDC, NNSWA, Rural Development Centre (RDC) and Koshi Victims Society (KVS) are in Nepal; two partners, namely, DSK and RDRS are in Bangladesh, and CASA, LWSIT, IGSSS, and SPREAD are in India.