Internal Final Evaluaiton and Transition Workshop of Match Fund 1 Programme for Programme Closure CAFOD and its implementing partners have been implementing 2 years DFID funded WASH Water Resources Management Gender since (April 2013 to 30 April 2015). This program has been implementing in the vulnerable communities where very low access to water, sanitation and proper hygiene practices in 37 villages in Siem Reap, Battambang, Modulkiri and Rattanakiri provinces of Cambodia, and in 20 communities in Myanmar. The aim of the project is to improve poor women and men in marginalised communities to increase their control over decisions and access to key resources, particularly safe drinking water and sanitation. 

After the project implementation, CAFOD and its implementing partners have committed the internal final evaluation as part of project learning. This final evaluation will be conducted in April 2015 by CAFOD and its implementing partners’ staffs including PO-WASH WRM, Programme Officer for Cambodia and gender focal persons, project managers, M&E officers, Project Officers and Field Officers. 

The evaluation should seek to measure the following, are (1) the achievements of the programme implementation against goals, objectives and plans (20 The effectiveness and efficiency of the programme intervention in the target areas (3) The relevance of the project intervention to current context of local community and national in term of WASH WRM programme (4) The level of community empowerment, ownership and sustainability of programme (5) The early impact of the programme intervention on target beneficiaries’ live, and the evaluation should further explore key lesson learnt, innovation and recommendations to improve the intervention of in the future programme in the same context. An additional the gender audit is also conducted in aiming to analyze the level of gender awareness and gender inclusiveness in programme design, implementation and evaluation in the Match Fund (WASH&WRM) and document ways in which gender programmes and projects can be integrated in mainstreaming programmes at the partner organizations and community levels, and to audit and recommend the ways in which community based mechanisms can be used to fight gender based violence and gender stereotypes countered with respect to specific social cultural circumstances in the organization and community, and individual responsibility through the programmes is geared towards ensuring the protection of vulnerable groups with regard to gender based violence. 

The project will be finished by the end of September 2015 and according to the results from evaluation in Cambodia, and to ensure sustainability of outcomes of the implemented programme, the training and transition workshop will be held by the end of July and in August 2015 for partner in Myanmar and Cambodia in order to improve their capacity through experience exchange discussion reflection on project implementation and intervention and provide specific training on drinking water quality testing and integrated water resource management, and as well as provide MF3 project orientation and development of detail implementation plans and monitoring and evaluation framework.