Project Final Evaluation

TERMS OF REFERENCE FINAL EVALUATION

"Improving the Resilience and Responsiveness of the Palestinian Population Most Vulnerable to the Humanitarian Crisis in Gaza and the West Bank".

1    Background

Doctors of the World Spain is an independent association that works to realize the right to health for all people, especially for vulnerable populations, excluded or victims of natural disasters, famine, disease, armed conflict or political violence. Our projects are carried out in Spain as well as in 19 countries in America, Africa, the Middle East, and Europe. The main mission of the volunteers and professionals who form part of our organization is to work towards the fulfillment of the fundamental right to health and the enjoyment of a dignified life for everyone.

Since 2004, Doctor of the World Spain has been present in Palestine, supporting the mental health services in the occupied Palestinian territory (the West Bank and Gaza), promoting a mental health model based on promotion, prevention, and community care.

1.  INTRODUCTION

1.1 JUSTIFICATION AND RATIONALE FOR THE EVALUATION

The carrying out of a final evaluation finds its legal framework in section VI. 4 Evaluations of the Resolution of 24 March 2009 and 31 October 2011 of the Presidency of the Spanish Agency for International Cooperation, approving the rules for the management, monitoring and justification of NGDO projects and agreements and development cooperation actions subsidised to non-governmental development organisations.

The reasons for carrying out a final evaluation are, firstly, to comply with the requirements of the international cooperation grant financed by AECID where an evaluation is foreseen for reasons of transparency and accountability.

Secondly, the value that Médicos del Mundo attaches to carrying out evaluations of interventions, considering that the results of these evaluations represent a very valuable working tool, with a view to:

• To increase the quality of support for the fulfilment of the organisation's mission.
• Increasing transparency with regard to the populations we work with, the local authorities, the national authorities and the associative level of the managing organisation Médicos del Mundo (MdM).
• Broaden the organisation's learning and share it among projects and local partners by identifying value-added practices.

For this reason, Médicos del Mundo has a Monitoring and Evaluation Unit which is responsible for following up on the evaluations carried out in the different projects implemented, ensuring that the lessons learnt are fed back into future projects.

1.2 SPECIFIC OBJECTIVES OF THE EVALUATION

The final external evaluation of this project is a commitment acquired with the AECID following the grant awarded for the implementation of the aforementioned project, within the framework of the monitoring and justification regulations set out in the regulatory bases of the AECID Call for Proposals. Thus, this evaluation represents the last milestone marking the end of the project's implementation, with the main purpose of globally evaluating the development and achievement of the results obtained in relation to the specific objectives and the components of the intervention for the improvement of the processes and, on the other hand, specifically, to analyse the relevance and effectiveness of the actions implemented as well as the capacity for improvement and adaptation according to the findings produced in previous evaluations.

All the lessons learnt will be compiled to guide Médicos del Mundo's future interventions in Palestine. This, in turn, will provide a clear understanding of the level of involvement of the various actors involved in the intervention, the integration of human rights, gender, environmental and anthropological approaches, as well as the accountability process employed, and will help to improve decision-making in future interventions.

The evaluation will generate recommendations that identify concrete actions that Médicos del Mundo should take to strengthen its operations in order to ensure the most timely, effective and efficient response possible in future interventions in Palestine, paying particular interest and attention to the degree of achievement of the expected results, coordination, quality, relevance and impact of the actions implemented so far.

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