Save the Children Country Strategic Plan 2019-2021 - Evaluation/ Efficiency Audit Save the Children Country Strategic Plan 2019-2021 Rädda Barnens landprogram för Tanzania 2019-2021 avser att nå 722.950 av de mest utsatta barnen i tio regioner i Tanzania (Dar es Salaam, Dodoma, Katavi, Kigoma, Shinyanga, Singida, Songwe, Rukwa, Tabora och Zanzibar) med insatser för att stärka skyddet för barn, förbättrad hälsa och nutrition, utbildning och kunskap om god förvaltning. 32.300 intressenter kommer engageras för barnrättigheter och bättre skydd för utsatta barn, grundläggande utbildning och för att delta i diskussioner om offentliga investeringar för barn. Vidare kommer de att opinionsbilda för att resurser och lagstiftning ska gynna de fattigaste. Rädda Barnen har för avsikt att följa upp och mäta resultaten. Redan i den tidigare fasen av programmet har till exempel opinionsbildningen mot barnäktenskap spelat en viktig roll i ett antal byar. Med erfarenheten från tidigare stöd under perioden 2016-2018 har ambassaden bedömt förutsättningarna för ett förnyat till Rädda Barnen även om slututvärderingen av det tidigare stödet ännu inte är klar. Lärdomarna från utvärderingen kommer att följas upp under nästa fas med Rädda Barnen för att informera programmeringen. 


Rädda barnen utvecklade sin förändringsteori genom att kombinera fyra pelare i alla sina program. De fyra pelarna i förändringsteorin är:
1) Rädda Barnen syftar till att vara röst för att förespråka och driva kampanjer för bättre praxis och politik för att uppfylla barns rättigheter och se till att barns röster hörs. Rädda barnen är en organisation som kämpar för att uppnå barns rättigheter, särskilt för de fattigaste och mest marginaliserade barnen, som riskerar att deras rättigheter förnekas.
2) Rädda Barnen vill arbeta innovativt för att utveckla och tillhandahålla evidensbaserade, replikerbara lösningar på barns problem. Organisationen har för avsikt att främja hållbara lösningar, inklusive innovativa metoder som skapar genombrott för barn på nationell och lokal nivå. Detta kräver testinterventioner, dokumenterade resultat och utvärderade effekter, så att arbetet bidrar till replikerbara lösningar på hur man uppnår viktiga förändringar för barn.
3) Rädda Barnen syftar till att uppnå resultat i stor skala genom att stödja ett effektivt genomförande av bästa praxis, program och politik för barn, och genom att utnyttja kunskap för att säkerställa hållbar effekt i stor skala. Detta kommer att ske genom att engagera andra förändringsagenter och genom att uppmuntra en miljö som främjar positiv utveckling.
4) Rädda barnen kommer att bygga partnerskap genom samarbete med barn, civilsamhällets organisationer, lokalsamhällen, regeringen och den privata sektorn för att dela med sig av kunskap, påverka andra och bygga kapacitet för att säkerställa att barns rättigheter uppfylls. För att effektivt kunna genomföra sina innovationer och uppnå resultat i stor skala, kommer organisationen kontinuerligt att identifiera partners och bygga lämpliga relationer och nätverk för programmering, policy och kampanjer. Förändringsteorin integreras rakt igenom landprogrammet 2019-2021, med alla pelare beskrivna i varje strategiskt mål. Under denna period kommer Rädda Barnen att fortsätta att fokusera på sina viktigaste programmässiga styrkor som inkluderar barnskydd , barns rättigheter, hälsa, nutrition och utbildning med ett intensifierat fokus på att dokumentera och dela resultaten av sina innovationer. Rädda Barnen fortsätter att arbeta i partnerskap men kommer också att överväga att jobba med nya partners när det bedöms mer effektivt. The intervention (Save the Children Country Strategic Plan 2019-2021) intends to reach 722,950 most deprived children in ten regions in Tanzania i.e. (Dar es Salaam, Dodoma, Katavi, Kigoma, Shinyanga, Singida, Songwe, Rukwa, Tabora, and Zanzibar) by 2021 with various services i.e. child protection, health and nutrition, education, and good governance. It will also engage with 32,300 stakeholders in monitoring and demanding child rights, promoting coordinated actions for child protection systems, providing basic education and participating in discussions on public investment in children. Furthermore, it will work to ensure that policies and national resources established as an outcome of its programming are designed to benefit the most deprived. SC intends to measure its results in terms of the tangible improvements it makes in the lives of the most deprived children. For example,in the previous phase of support, Save the Children has played an important role in building public awareness on the issue of child marriage at community level. Therefore based on the experience from previous support the Embassy is developing a new support to Save the Children. Furthermore, based on results seen during the previous phase of support 2016 - 2018, the Embassy is developing this support before the External Evaluation of the SC Country Strategic Plan 2016-2018 has been completed. The recommendations from the external evaluation will be followed up during followup dialogue with the organisation.
Save the Children developed its Theory of Change framework by combining 4 pillars in order to create impact for children in all its programmes. The four pillars of the Theory of Change are:
1) Save the Children (SC) aims to be the Voice of advocating and campaigning for better practices and policies to fulfill childrens rights and to ensure that childrens voices are heard. Save the Children is an organisation fighting to acheive children's rights, particularly for the poorest and most marginalised children, who are at risks of their rights being denied.
2) Save the children will be the Innovator for developing and providing evidence based, replicable solutions to problems facing children. The organisation intends to promote durable soultions, including innovative approaches that create breakthrough improvements for children at national and community level. This requires testing interventions, documenting results and evaluating impact, so that the work contributes to global evidence about how to acheive important changes for children.
3) Save the Children aims to acheive results at scale by supporting effective implementation of best practices, programs and policies for children, by leveraging knowledge to ensure sustainable impact at scale. This will be done by engaging other change agents, and by encouraging an environment conducive to positive development.
4) Save the Children will build partnerships through collaborating with children, civil society organisations, communities, government and the private sector to share knowledge, influence others and build capacity to ensure childrens rights are met. In order to effectively implement its innovations and achieve results at scale, SC will continously identify partners and build appropriate relationships and networks for programming, policy, advocacy and campaigns.

The SC Theory of change cuts across the 2019-2021 Country Strategy Plan, with all pillars of the ToC outlined in each strategic goal of the Tanzania Country Programme.  During this period, SC will continue to focus on its key programmatic strengths which include Child Protection, Child Rights Governance, Health and Nutrition and Education with an intensified focus on documenting and sharing the results of its innovations. Save the Children will continue working in partnerships but will also assess some of its on-going partnership arrangements to ensure that they share the same values with SC and complement each others strengths. The development intervention envisions a world in which every child attains the right to survival, protection, development and participation. The mission of the development intervention is to inspire changes in the way the world treats children, and to achieve immediate and lasting change in their lives. The development intervention has identified intentions at Global level that are to be translated at national level. The global intentions 2030 are 1) Survive: No Child dies from preventable causes before their 5th birthday 2) Learn: all Children learn from a quality basic education and 3) Be protected: Violence against Children is no longer tolerated.
The intervention intends to reach 722,950 most deprived children in ten regions in Tanzania i.e. (Dar es Salaam, Dodoma, Katavi, Kigoma, Shinyanga, Singida, Songwe, Rukwa, Tabora, and Zanzibar) by 2021 with various services i.e. child protection, health, education, and good governance. It will also engage with 32,300 stakeholders in monitoring and demanding child rights, promoting coordinated actions for child protection systems, providing basic education and participating in discussions on public investment in children. Furthermore, it will work to ensure that policies and national resources established as an outcome of its programming are designed to benefit the most deprived. SC intends to measure its results in terms of the tangible improvements it makes in the lives of the most deprived children.
Save the Children's Tanzania Country Programme will continue to focus on its five key programmatic areas i.e. Child Protection, Child Rights Governance, Health and Nutrition, Education with an increased focus of documenting and sharing the results of various innovations. A gender audit performed in 2018 will determine the different gender needs within the organisation. Based on the gender audit, the current programming will have an increased focus on the different gender needs of its beneficiaries for example in Child Protection, the interventions will include engagement of men and boys to challenge the values and norms around negative masculinities and female dominated parenting, community dialogues on gender based norms that are harmful to children and women as well as the roles of fathers and men to protect boys and girls. Staff will also be trained and mentored in the Save the Children Gender Equity Programme Guidance and Toolkit which would enable them to become more effective in followup of results with a gender lens. Gender equality will be mainstreamed across all strategic goals. The Embassy will followup the acheivements attained during the previous support through the external evaluation of the SC Country Strategy Plan 2016 - 2018.
The strategic goals of the programme in Tanzania will be:
1) Improved accountability by the Government to fulfill child rights in Tanzania- this is the central core of child rights governance to SC work and its collaborators in Tanzania.
2) Children are protected from all forms of violence- there is a high prevalence of violence which is experienced by chidlren throughout the country. The policy environment to adress this issue is favourable despite the political environment being challenging.
3) Children involved in or at risk of harmful work, including refugees and migrants, are able to access protection services- Migrant and refugee children, most often at risk of participating in harmful work, are some of the most vulnerable children in Tanzania. the vast majority of these children do not receive any protection services from the state or civil society.
4) Children ages 0-13 demonstrate age appropriate learning outcomes-  Early childhood and basic education is an underlying issue to other strategic goals that have been prioritised.
5) Children below five years consume an appropriate quantity and quality of foods to meet their dietary needs during all times of the year- Favourable policy environment and critical period ( first 1000 days) to ensure children can acheive their full potential.
6) Adolescent pregnancies are reduced through improved services, legal framework and education on girls rights- Although the policy environment is not favourable, there is a need to be bold and ensure that adolescent girls, including young mothers, can fulfill their rights
7) Increased access to and coverage of high impact maternal and newborn interventions- this is core to SC work, and aligns with expertise in the Tanzania Country Programme.
The existence of child rights networks and forums in Tanzania is considered to be an opportunity for implementing and monitoring child rights issues, although there could be a challenge in coordination for recommendations for key international instruments such as the UNCRC. The development intervention intends to lead by example and act as a voice for transparency and acoountability in its Child rights work, especially as a catalyst for engagement and strengthening of civil society to defend Child rights.