Evaluering
Lusaka Outreach Programmes of SOS Children’s Village of Zambia Trust (Family Strengthening Programme and Medical Centre)
In 1996 SOS Children's Villages Zambia registered its presence in Zambia as a family based child care organisation. In 2002 the Lusaka Outreach programmes under the names Social Centre and Medical Centre were developed and began operations on a pilot basis. The social centre has since been transformed as the Family Strengthening Programme, a community based child care intervention aimed at the prevention of child abandonment. The current programme has been funded by Norad through SOS Children's Villages Norway's multi-year cooperation agreement with Norad. The main aim of the evaluation was to measure the impact the Family Strengthening Programme and Medical Centre had made with a view to draw lessons learnt and recommend a way forward. The specific objectives of the evaluation were; to assess the impact the programmes made in the lives of the participating children within the target group, their families as well as in the community; to establish the relevance, effectiveness, efficiency, sustainability and how participatory the programme interventions were; and to identify the lessons learnt from the programmes that could be taken to further develop the programmes.