Evaluering
Evaluation Report: Federation Capacity Building and Social Mobilization Project, November/December 2006
The projected started in January 2003 and is running until 31 December 2007. It is unique both in its development approach as well as in the cooperation among the stakeholders. The project is aiming at increasing the capacity of the 260 Union Federations (local self managed association of rural landless as democratic and effective community based organizations so that they will thus be capable to support effectively the social development of their groups and act as social change agents in their local communities. The stakeholders, RDRS and four Scandinavian partners (the lead agency DanChurchAid, NorwegianChucrhAid, FinnChurchAid and Church of Sweden) have joined in a consortium to ensure funding, management and sharing of lessons learned. Funding sources are from the European Commission and from stakeholders own funding sources. The objectives of the evaluation are to: provide stakeholders within the European Commission, RDRS and the consortium members with relevant and sufficient information to make informed judgment about performance of the project; document major lessons learned; provide practical recommendations for follow- up action for RDRS, the Federations and the Consortium members – including RDRS strategies and policies for supporting ad strengthening the Federations in future.