Mid-Term Review of the AGIR Programme - Sida

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Annex 3 – Inception Report
Executive Summary
Indevelop has been commissioned by Sida to undertake the mid-term review of its
Civil Society Support programme AGIR in Mozambique to take place within the
period from August to 15 November 2012.
Managed by the Swedish Embassy in Maputo, Swedish support to civil society in
Mozambique is structured through the AGIR programme. The overall Swedish objective
for this programme is to increase the positive impact of Mozambican civil society
organisations on government transparency and accountability, citizen’s participation
and access to information and the respect for human rights, including gender equality.
The AGIR programme was initiated in 2010 and became fully operational in 2011. It
has an agreement period ending in December 2014. Four intermediary INGOs, IBIS,
Oxfam Novib, Diakonia and the Swedish Cooperative Center (SCC) have been contracted
to implement four different “sub-programmes”:
Access to information – IBIS
Financial accountability; participation, social and legal accountability with focus
on underlying causes of discrimination – Oxfam Novib
Political accountability; participation, social and legal accountability with focus
on the legal aspects of human rights – Diakonia
Social accountability in natural resource management – SCC
The core of each of the “sub-programmes” is the establishment of partnerships with a
number of local CSO partners that are active in a specific thematic area. Each partnership
is regulated in an agreement between the INGO and the partner. The nucleus
of these partnerships is core-funding, with a strong focus on capacity development.
Objectives and scope of mid term review according to Terms of Reference
According to the Terms of Reference the mid-term review is supposed to give new
donors, who are interested in joining the programme, valuable insights to guide their
decisions on support as well as to provide existing donors and the intermediaries
with recommendations on how to improve the programme guidelines or the functioning
of the programme. Furthermore, the mid-term review should:
Determine the programme’s effectiveness regarding achieving results at the
outcome level as well as to determine the programme’s relevance and potential
for impact;
Assess the sustainability of the programme;
Serve as a basis for decisions on continued Swedish support and the possibility
of accepting more donors into the programme; and
Assess the value added of the AGIR programme approach – is it an effective
use of funds?
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