Evaluering
Projects Supported by Operation Dayswork (OD) 2006-2010 External Intermediate Evaluation 2008
In 2005, OD approved the project proposal from Norwegian Church Aid (NCA), on Human Trafficking as the main focus for a series of interventions in the lives of youngsters from Brazil, main victims of this problem. Based on the experience gained with work developed on this theme and with the youngsters, five partner organizations integrating the portfolio of NCA in Brazil were selected to receive support: Ação Educativa, Diaconia, Instituto Socioambiental, Serviço à Mulher Marginalizada and Viva Rio. The implementation of the projects started in January 2006 and is to be concluded in December 2010. The evaluations carried out have, therefore, had an intermediate character and focussed four objectives, which can be summarized as follows: i. to examine the efficiency of the projects’ implementation; ii. to identify the projects’ impacts; iii. to examine societal changes that may have occurred in facing Human Trafficking; iv. to contribute with recommendations for the future orientation of the projects. The main conclusion of the evaluation is that, until now, the projects have managed, in the great majority of the spaces where they operate, to establish themselves as a reference in the work with youth and on the issue of trafficking. The projects’ effects have been beyond the ones foreseen in the annual work proposals and plans. The extensive network of partnerships established and/or strengthened by the five organisations in the area of project implementation has increased the potential of the evaluated initiatives in reaching their main goal: to promote the Brazilian youth as agents of transformation.