Poverty, Inequality, and Evaluation: Changing Perspectives by Rist Ray C. Frederic P. Martin Ana Maria Fernandez

Author:Rist, Ray C., Frederic P. Martin, Ana Maria Fernandez
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: The World Bank

Source: Bonnel et al. 2013, 11, using data from the World Bank and Global Fund database and data from the International HIV/AIDS Alliance database for Department for International Development (DFID) and U.S. President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR).

Needless to say, the level of investment for the HIV/AIDS response and civil society has brought with it a mandate to show results on the ground and to understand the reach and effectiveness of community-based actions and services.7 Although civil society and CBOs have been receiving increased financial support from major aid donors, especially since 2000, the effects of community-based activities on the communities and population groups they serve have been largely unmeasured, even as international funding for the HIV/AIDS response has been scaled up, partly with the intention of supporting community groups. The relevancy of this portfolio evaluation is reinforced by the fact that community engagement is one of the three or four major pillars in the majority of national HIV/AIDS strategies and response plans.

It is against this backdrop—the need for evidence on the results of investments—that this evaluation of the community response to HIV/AIDS was conceptualized. The evaluation portfolio was implemented from 2009 to 2012 through a partnership between the United Kingdom’s DFID and the World Bank, with the U.K. Consortium on AIDS and International Development (U.K. Consortium) as a strategic civil society partner.8

The partners acted with autonomy as knowledge brokers and facilitators. They were structurally independent of corporate mandates, as they did not evaluate corporate programs. This partnership met the U.K. Audit Commission criteria (Rodriguez-García 2013, 13),9 which defines a partnership as a joint working relationship, where the partners:

• Are otherwise independent bodies;

• Agree to cooperate to achieve a common goal;

• Create a new process to achieve this goal;

• Plan and implement a joint program; and

• Share relevant information, risks, and rewards.

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