Excercise 3

1. Write a list of the major assumptions you have made in designing your project. Identify 3 key things you want to learn more about.

§  High stigma and discrimination amongst the youths.

§  Lack of information  on HIV/AIDS

§  Stigma and contribution contributes to the low turnout rate at testing centers.

§  The film will create behavior change amongst the youths.

§  Te film will help the youths better understand issues related to HIV/AIDS

Things I would like to learn about:

§  Ways on how to make films

§  Ways on how to encourage behavior change amongst the youth

§  How stigma and discrimination links up with other issues such as, youths not wanting to get tested.

2. Following the 8 steps in this module, develop an evaluation plan for your project. Use the headings below as a guide as well as the questions included throughout the module (see the  sections). You can also refer to the ‘Evaluation Plan Case Study’ in this module for help.

Project title: fighting back stigma and discrimination

Project Manager: Michael Mulunga

Purpose of evaluation: The purpose of evaluating the project is to find out if all the project aims and objectives have been achieved. We would also like to report to the donors how their funding was used and what impact it made in the community. The final report will contain success, challenges faced and recommendations on how the project was managed and how we can improve on the next project.  

Involvement of Stakeholders: there are different groups that will be involved in the evaluation process this will include:

Project Management:  the project team which includes the project manager, finance officer and volunteers will be involved in collecting information and drafting the final evaluation report.

Project partners: This will include other youth organizations that will help in implementing the project, they will be responsible for collecting  information from their members and helping with editing the final report.

Audience: This are all the youths that will view the film, they will fill in the evaluation report after watching the film, we will also have an sms line were the youths can send in their small massages after watching the film.

Indicators of achievement:

Objective/s: To produce a good quality film they encourages youths to stop stigma and discrimination against people who are HIV positive and showed to 1000 youths all over Namibia.

Indicators:

§  The quality of the film

§  The number of youths that view the film

§  Number of response obtained via sms

§  Number of participants on the discussion board on Facebook

Evidence required	How often/ When	Obtained from
Quality of the film	During the film & at the end	Film producers
Skills in drama performance	At the end of workshop	John Mux
Information contained in the film	At the end of the project	Edwina Piters (HIV/AIDS coordinator)
Number of response via sms	At the end of the project	Drusilla Hoeses
Number of copies distributed and viewed in other regions	At the end	Project partners in the regions.
Observation while watching the film (happy, sad, board and how the youths react)	During the viewing of the film.	Dawaro Mathews

Evaluation tools and techniques to be used: The project will use different evaluation methods which will include questionnaires as well as other tools such as sms, facebook discussion boards and discussion while watching the movie. Our project partners will also provide us with feedback on they got when they viewed the movie with their groups.

Baseline information required: before the project starts volunteers will do a community mapping to find out the level of information that the youths currently have related to HIV/AIDS and stigma and discrimination. Once all the information has been collected it will be used to draft the script and compared to the information collected at the end of the project.

Logistical & resource considerations:

Time – Evaluation will mostly be conducted at the end of the project, which is after three months, then an additional month will be added for evaluation and drawing up the final report.

Money – Most evaluation process will be done by vouluteers hence less money is needed for stationary, printing, sms cost and refreshments for participants.

People – all project partners will hand in a small report that will help the project manager write up the final report.

Approach to the analysis of information: The whole information obtained from the project partners, evaluation forms, sms, facebook, discussion board and observations will be to draw up the final report.

 Reporting and communication of outcomes / learning: The final report of the project will be submitted to the donors of the project which will include the impact of the project, lessons learned, success and improvements on future project. We will also share it will all the parties that were involved in the entire project.