Seeing is Believing Mid Term Evaluation: Council for the Blind
Deadline: 15 March 2017
Background
Council for the Blind in partnership with Ministry of Health and Child Care (MoHCC) is implementing the “Seeing is Believing” project funded by Standard Chartered Bank (SCB) and Christian Blind Mission (CBM). The three year project (2015 – 2017) with a budget of $1.2 million dollars will scale up the provision of quality eye care services in North East Zimbabwe through capacity building of eye health workforce, improvement of infrastructure, provision of equipment and consumables at Sekuru Kaguvi Hospital – Children’s Eye Unit, Norton Eye Hospital and Sakubva Eye Hospital in order to ensure that eye care services are inclusive and in line with the National Eye Health Strategy (2014 – 2018) for Zimbabwe.
The objectives of the project are as follows
Increase the quantity and improve the quality of eye-care services for adults and children over three years; Increase the capacity of the eye-health workforce at primary, secondary and tertiary levels; Improve the infrastructure for eye-care delivery at tertiary (Sekuru Kaguvi Hospital) and secondary level (Norton and Sakubva Eye Hospitals); Ensure all eye-care services are inclusive.
As per the project document, a mid-term evaluation was foreseen during the 3rd quarter of year two.
The overall objective of the mid-term evaluation is to evaluate the relevance, effectiveness, efficiency, impact & sustainability, networks / partnerships and lessons learnt of project outputs and outcomes for the period January 2015 to June 2016. The evaluation should identify issues affecting efficient or effective implementation and recommend courses of action. The mid-term evaluation will pave way for improving project delivery for the remaining project duration.