Evaluering
End of Project Evaluation of the Capacity Building within Healthcare (CBH): Somaliland
Capacity Building within Healthcare (CBH) is a project implemented in Somaliland by the Norwegian Lutheran Mission (NLM) operating under the local name Nooleynta Naruurada Mustaqbalka (NNM). The project has been piloted since 2008/9 in partnership with Somaliland Ministry of Health, Edna Adan Hospital, Hargeisa Group Hospital and the University of Hargeisa Medical Faculty. The evaluation of this project is carried out between October 6th and November 1st 2014. Since 1991, Somalia has been without a functioning central government and has experienced a prolonged humanitarian crisis due to a civil war that still affects large parts of the country. The civil war destroyed most of the infrastructure, displaced large populations, and took a heavy human and financial toll on the Somali population (World Bank 2006). In 1991, the Northwest declared the independent state of Somaliland. Several other regions have since declared independence unilaterally and implemented semi-autonomy over their population (Sorbye and Leigh 2009). Since its self-declaration of independence in 1991, Somaliland has against many odds established a system of democratic governance and embarked upon an ambitious development agenda including designing a National Development Plan (NDP 2012-2016). The immediate beneficiaries of the CBH project’s pilot phase were the medical and nursing students, clinical workers at partner hospitals and academic staff at health teaching institutions. The projects’ long term beneficiaries were the general population of Somaliland with particular focus on mothers and children. The main purpose of the evaluation was to establish the achievements, effectiveness and impact of the CBH strategy as well as take cognizance of the termination process and lessons learnt with regard to empowering health care workers in Somaliland through capacity building and knowledge transfer activities.