Evaluering
Evaluation Report: Latin America Regional Team The Salvation Army
The Salvation Army Integrated Mission Team in Latin America (ELAMI) seeks to develop the capacity and resources of the Salvation Army, as a branch of a Christian Church, to better reach out to the local community to understand problems that are being experienced and to facilitate responses, as developed by the community, in conjunction with local organisations. The Integrated Mission process focuses on human capacity development which refers to the stimulation of the will, abilities and skills that are needed for a competent response by organisations and communities. TSA firmly believes that the capacity exists within local communities for them to take charge of their own situations. The ELAMI encourages a common way of being and working for all parts of the Salvation Army which includes an on-going process of reflection in order to capitalize on the experiences of each community and share it with others. Transfer is facilitated because members of the community are invited to discussions with other communities and also as community members move to other communities, they take the approach with them. Offering of mutual support, participatory evaluation, assessment and relationship building are all means that are used by the teams to ensure successful and sustainable community interventions. This evaluation was initiated by ELAMI in order to fulfill the agreed action plan with Norad, the donor entity for this project. Both organisations want to evaluate the joint project and the fulfillment of the proposed aims for Project 2010-2014.