Media capacities’ reinforcement to promote collaborative development in Chad Final Evaluation

Between June 2011 and June 2014, Search for Common Ground (SFCG) implemented a three-year project, in partnership with the Association des Editeurs de la Presse privée au Tchad (AEPT) in 3 large cities of Chad (N’Djamena, Moundou and Sarh). The overall goal of this project, financed by the European Union, was to reinforce capacities of the media sector so as to promote social dialogue, development and citizen participation. The main objectives of this final evaluation were to evaluate the project’s effectiveness and impact, through a mix of methods: individual interviews with journalists, media managers and project manages, a micro survey with 600 respondents, project document analysis. Results have shown that overall effectiveness and impact of this project have been low. Key recommendations were made for SFCG when it aims at implementing a project in a country without having an office and mainly through a partner. The latter include: 1) Have precise criteria to choose executive partners of projects that SFCG cannot directly implement; 2) Assess partners’ capacities when designing the project so as to better share responsibilities; 3) Either monitor the project ourselves or coach and follow up on the partner to ensure a monitoring system is implemented and used.

Discover why this project’s effectiveness and impact are low and how to prevent it for a next similar SFCG project, by reading the full report available below.

• Report in French (French)
• Appendix in French (French)

This entry was posted in Africa, Evaluations, Resources and tagged Africa, Chad, Chad Evaluations on February 25, 2015.

Baseline Evaluation Study: Prevention and management of violent conflicts over shared natural resources in the regions of Chari-Baguirmi Mandoul and Moyen Chari

In the Republic of Chad, the regions of Chari-Baguirmi, Mandoul and Moyen Chari are experiencing increasing violent conflict over resources. Conflict over resources has increased in recent years because of: reduction in available space (a result of accelerated desertification and increasing population), ethnic and religious tensions, lack of a system of effective governance. SFCG and APRODAIT performed a baseline study to: inventory conflicts; identify stakeholders; identify triggers of, dynamics of, and management mechanisms for conflict; map local organizations and select local partners; collect baseline indicators. The data presented in this report were obtained during individual interviews, a mini-survey, interviews with CSOs, and focus groups. The study found that the majority of participants want to resolve disputes amicably on the personal level, and then move to traditional methods of mediation. But when both those channels prove impossible there is very little trust in “official/formal” channels for dispute resolution. The study was funded by the European Union, through the Ministry of Economy, Planning and International Cooperation of the Republic of Chad.

This entry was posted in Africa, Evaluations, Resources and tagged Chad Evaluations on May 2, 2014.

Midterm Evaluation: Strengthening the Capacity of the Media to Promote Collaborative Development in Chad

Strengthening the Capacity of the Media to Promote Collaborative Development in Chad, is a project funded by the European Union and implemented by Search for Common Ground (SFCG), in collaboration with the Association of Editors of the Private Press of Chad (AEPT). It is a three year program, implemented from June 2011 to June 2014. It was designed to facilitate and enable collaborative and participatory development in Chad, in order to contribute to peace. The mid-term evaluation of the Project is part of the three-year life cycle of the project. This is in accordance with the funding agreement between Search for Common Ground and the European Union that at the half-life of the project, a mid-term internal evaluation should be conducted to measure the progress of the Project. This report contains the results of the mid-term evaluation for the European Union, AEPT, and Chadians citizens in the intervention areas of the project. The evaluation focused on the OECD-DAC relevance1 criteria to measure whether the project helped to reduce conflicts between local governments and populations, while also creating a space for dialogue between the two parties for a collaborative development. The evaluation also focused on the efficiency of the project by measuring how financial resources have been translated into results.

The mid-term evaluation had the following objectives:

• Assess the overall program intervention through the results achieved at mid-term compared to the expected results, while taking into account the internal and external environment of the program implementation.
• Learn from the program intervention and make recommendations for adjustment of the strategic management at mid-term, in order to enable an effective achievement of the program by the end of the program life.
• Involve SFCG and AEPT staff during the evaluation to enhance their capabilities.

• Read the Executive Summary(English)
• Read the Key Findings(English)
• Read the Mid-Term Evaluation (Français)

This entry was posted in Africa, Evaluations, Resources and tagged Chad Evaluations on July 1, 2013.