programme goals? Are there ways to strengthen the partnership or to leverage the skills of the partners to deliver greater impact? What aspects have supported the success of the programme? How can these be built upon or strengthened? What aspects or factors undermine the success of the programme? What strategies can you use to address these? Are there significant risks, or changes in the country context (e.g. geological, political, partners), that may hinder the success of the programme? That will require an adaptation of your Prevention+ country programme strategies, geographical areas of implementation, implementing partners, or objectives? If yes, what strategies can be utilized to mitigate these risks? Based on your assessment of country progress, reflect on the assumptions you made in selecting and designing your activities or interventions. Are they working to achieve the intended outcomes? Why or why not? Based on the above insights, is the country programme on track to towards Prevention+ outcomes and programme goals. For example, by convening an MTR meeting with key implementers and stakeholders. Conduct interviews with key external stakeholders on their perceptions of the overall strength and impact of the Prevention+ programme (or specific components of the programme, as relevant to their involvement/engagement with the programme) (we recommend a small number, 5-10 max). Conduct focus group discussions with target groups / programme participants, e.g. on what works, perceived benefits, usefulness, etc. Key stakeholder interviews should include questions related to the overall assessment of the programme as well as to other specific areas (e.g. sustainability, described in section IV), in order to limit the number of overall interviews and facilitate data collection.
2. Financial Expenditure The finance section will focus specifically on providing up-to-date information on your country programme financial expenditure for the first half of 2018 (January to June) and an assessment of whether financial expenditure is on track and in line with programme implementation. Guiding questions Data required to answer these questions Methodology Key resources Are financial expenditures on track according to the country 2018 annual plan and the overall 5-year plan? Is financial expenditure lagging behind on certain activities? If so, why and what strategies can be utilized to get these activities and expenditure back on track? Were estimated costs for certain activities and strategies correct? If not, does/did your budget need to be revised as a result? Are external factors contributing to delays in spending? What strategies can mitigate these factors? Will your country programme have significant under-spending at the end of 2018? If so, why and what is your plan for utilizing these funds in a timely manner? Up-to-date expenditure for each activity: in the 2018 detailed country budget, including any unspent funds carried over from 2017. Expenditure status: Assessment of whether spending is ‘completed’ ‘on track’ or ‘behind schedule’ for each budget line in the detailed country budget 2018. Build on existing data collection: No/little new data collection procedures should be required to provide updated financial expenditure. Country programmes already routinely monitor and report on financial expenditure against their annual budgets on a quarterly or semi-annual basis. Information needs to reflect actual expenditure as of the end June 2018 (also required for the semi-annual report). Additional data collection: As part of putting together your financial expenditure, we recommend each country programme gather input from program managers, finance staff and country representatives to inform the financial narrative and identify potential strategies for improving financial expenditure, or better aligning the country budgets to the realities of programme implementation. Prevention+ country annual plan and budget Quarterly/ semi-annual financial reports