Evaluations and program analyzes
Terre des Hommes usually implement the funded projects in cooperation with local partner organizations, but supports the proper implementation of the work and the documentation of the project success. The project partners are advised by local specialists on implementation. The results are checked and documented on site.
In the case of large projects or special questions, external evaluations and program analyzes complement their own impact control by Terre des Hommes staff. You can bring in special expertise and new perspective. Evaluations have a more testing and evaluating character, with program analyzes, on the other hand, a systematic overall picture is to be created and, above all, the working method is to be further developed.
Terre des Hommes differentiates between different forms of evaluations: Formative evaluations that are carried out in the course of the project serve the advice and improve the measure, in the event of end valuations, the focus is on the results; Ex-post evaluations that are carried out years after the end of the project should show whether the results also existed after the end of the project or have had an even more comprehensive social impact.
The contents of an evaluation are the analysis of the problem and the environment, the quality of the planning and implementation, the methods used to achieve the project objective and the effects. Common to everyone is the interest of learning both from good experiences and from mistakes and providing the knowledge gained in this way. Terre des hommes strives to carry out evaluations for all project regions and all relevant fields of work.