Mid-Term Review of the AGIR Programme - Sida

A N N E X 3 – I N C E P T I O N R E P O R T
these change pathways within the AGIR programme and will focus the analysis of the
support that is central to the work of capacity strengthening of CSO partners.
Evaluation Methodology
The approach to the evaluation will require evidence collecting both in Maputo and in
the provinces of Mozambique where many of the CSO partners work. The two main
sources of evidence in this evaluation used will be the review of programme documentation
at the donor, intermediary and CSO partner level and the use of information
gathered primarily through interviews with individuals at the donor, intermediary
and CSO partner levels.
An additional source of evidence will be through the interviewing of individuals or
organisations not connected to the AGIR programme, but who work in or have
knowledge of the context of AGIR within Mozambique. These ‘second opinions’, or
external informants, are important for balancing the information collected through
documents and interviews related to the AGIR programme and could play and important
role in the triangulation of evidence. These sources can be:
Donors not currently involved in the programme, government departments
and/or agencies, and local CSOs. Donors with or without interest in joining
the AGIR programme including Danida,
Other major civil society programmes including MASC, ‘Dialogo’ (DFIDfunded
civil society program focusing on five municipalities)
Commissions/working groups in the parliament.
A primary step in the construction of this evaluative narrative is a review of the documentation
produced by and/or associated with the AGIR programme. This process
has already begun with documentation collected from Sida and all of the intermediaries.
Interviews with the Swedish Embassy/Sida staff and other donors associated with
the AGIR programme, as well as those individuals working within the INGOs involved
in the programme, have also already begun. The focus of these interviews,
while preliminary at this inception stage, has been on unravelling the relationships
between the intermediaries and their CSO partner organisations from the perspective
of the intermediary.
Perhaps the most critical part of the evaluation will be the information collected
through semi-structured interviews with selected CSO partner organisations. Examining
both the internal and external capacities of the CSO partner organisations and
their work in the AGIR programme is crucial to understanding and assessing the progress
made so far by the AGIR programme. Semi-structured interviews shall be carried
out with a selection of 8 to 10 current AGIR partners. There is no intention to
obtain a representative sample among the CSO organisations, which are all very different.
Rather, the CSO partners will be selected so as to capture partner diversity,
issue-based partner linkages, local, regional, national dimensions and special aspects
such as gender or specific rights-based approaches. While the evaluation team will
make the final selection of these partner organisations, this selection will be informed
through the current ongoing discussions with the intermediary organisations.
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