Evaluering
ADRA Sudan Functional Literacy Project Evaluation Report
ADRA Sudan began using the REFLECT literacy methodology in 2001 among displaced persons in Khartoum State. It started literacy as a supplement component to its micro credit project. REFLECT is a method that mobilizes the community to participate actively in participatory rural appraisal (PRA) tools and thus the technique helps in community empowerment. REFLECT is an evolving process that must be continually recreated for each new context. Innovation and change is integral to the process. ADRA Sudan began with literacy as a project component and evaluated this approach in June 2002. The recommendation of developing an advanced facilitator’s manual for those who completed the first level manual was implemented and the activities expanded to Haj Yousif in 2004 with replication of the same approach. ADRA Sudan’s Functional Literacy Project supported by Norad and ADRA Norway operated in the three localities where ADRA Sudan also carried out micro credit activities. The three localities were Al Bougaa and Umbadda locality at the western part of Omdurman; Kerery locality, north of Omdurman; and in Haj Yousif locality at Khartoum North. This evaluation was carried out in the third and final year of the project by an external evaluator who was hired to look at the achievement of the literacy objective, effectiveness of the approach used, and its impact on the literacy participants and their environment.