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1. INTRODUCTION
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This first section of the Food For Work (FFW) evaluation report
is intended to provide a summary of the following:
* the overall purpose and major objectives of the FFW
Evaluation;
* the approach of the evaluation team to this evaluation; and
* the evaluation itinerary and major events.
1.1 The Purpose and Major Objectives of this Evaluation
As stated in the Food For Work Evaluation Scope of Work (See
Appendix A), the overall purpose of the FFW evaluation was to "assess
the management tasks involved in the implementation of the CRS Food
For Work (FFW) Program by quantitative and qualitative review at the
Field, CRS zonal and headquarter levels". USAID/India emphasized at
the outset of this evaluation mission that the team should not attempt
to quantify the volume and bize of the FFW Program, nor should it
attempt to measure program impact; but rather, it should assess the
ability of CRS and its counterpart agencies to manage the program. As
noted in the SOW, this evaluation - with its focus on program
management - was expected to complement the 1979 eval-iation, and the
FFW program impact studies which followed that evaluation.
An additional objective of this evaluation mission was to
evaluate the 3-year FFW Planning, Monitoring and Evaluation (PM&E)
Grant ($79,200), which was given to CRS in 1984, and which ends on
September 30, 1987.
Given this Scope of Work, the FFW evaluation team identified the
following key issues to address in its information gathering:
Effectiveness of the management and implementation of
the CRS FFW Program.
Status of the Planning, Monitoring, and Evaluation
(PM&E) System.
* Selection criteria for FFW projects, project
beneficiaries, and FFW recipients.
Resource integration at the project level - Government,
PVO and other donors.
Relationship of community to project holder. (Is there
a dependency relationship?).