Evaluation:
Monitoring and evaluating of ICDP projects
INTERNAL EVALUATION
Before ICDP is implemented in a new community mapping of the local situation is usually done through interviews and with questionnaires administered to the key informants.
During implementation there is an ongoing system for monitoring and evaluating the training process and implementation of the ICDP programme. Trainees apply self monitoring check lists and keep diaries, and these are also used in group meetings of trainees with a supervisor as basis for analysis of the work in progress. Each workshop and each phase of field training is evaluated by those taking part in the training project through reporting and sharing at regular meetings, as well as by filling written questionnaires.
EXTERNAL EVALUATION
External evaluation of ICDP projects sometimes takes place and this is done by professionals and students from outside ICDP, usually from the local universities. The process of assimilation of the ICDP methodology by its participant caregivers has in some projects been evaluated through case studies. Evaluation aimed at seeing how the program is received by those who were trained was carried out in some projects through focus group interviews and questionnaires, adapted according to project's context.
There is already a number of different studies carried out in different countries.
In the future ICDP aims to set up studies to examine the impact of the work 2 - 5 years after the ICDP intervention.
DONOR EVALUATION
Donor organisations often participate in the evaluation process. In some of the ICDP projects donor representatives were actively involved as part of the project monitoring committee.