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Effectiveness nalys s"AEA), form in", 'an'at temptfto,better"mth h
instruments to..the ftepol xetdt s hm h Jaa~lt
orgnlisrmn eindby Comm nt Syrstems' Foundation, re
seen'by' CRS -as; technica11 sou nh but- inappropriat e,'i en w th -the
-multiple ,r'evision the ha e.- since ten ,,through, the- forms "are ,st~i Li~::,l
_conside'red to 6o'."f.c~1rdna a h-a~
I.solicited "unre li able'
One t he Bao~ssp IA' form, accor ig.to ,zonal,,ield
reviewers, is the questio~n which is to 'be po'sed ,to--benef iciaries, to
dter-mine their income prior to the FF project. "How can you :expect
villagers to1 rememer their incomes 2' or: more yearsi prev osy, and,
Y;,can i inomtin" field, reviewers as(il
~reviewers in the Madras~ office have proposed that this '!baseline data"
h- establistedeaofthe time of's art-p]
' One~issue with the AEA 'form, according to fie ld revi~ewers- is-the
qestion estimating te expeced life ofani 'asset. In the evaluation
tem srviwofafew comple'ted AEA orsteestimated life o0a~
locsthuse anged from "5 y9ears" to "7~genera tionl and the life
ofa rwell ranged f rom "7 yers". to "15 years". Field reviewer si, asked
us: "'How do we make these deteriinations?"'
~In interviews ,ith field reviewers, most we re unable t o 'eJI I US.Lc I1
what the rationale was for doing the BII'i~and 1AEA eva luat ion's- "y
are you . doing the evaluations, and how m ight the' infomation,be useful
to'you?' Whe se wa was done with the -forms-, -he reply was:,
"We send them to Delhi."~ h e ~ofc as 'hf asked what;
with thw the-Whendo rc' Doelhi~
iLheydo i':: iththefors te~eply was,"They are, filed'.
tksplace,
No 'analysi
no consol'idation is done, and nofed~ s, povided t'o
the7 zonal offic'es.
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BTh~or dat'e5 BIIA form's and 100 AEA' f'orms have been completed
Bothform arestill 'considered to be, in. a field, testing stage.. See
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