SUMMATIVE AND FORMATIVE EVALUATION OF THE PROJECT: PROTECTING CHILDREN FROM ONLINE CHILD SEXUAL EXPLOITATION AND ABUSE (OCSEA) IN GHANA
PROTECTING CHILDREN FROM ONLINE CHILD SEXUAL EXPLOITATION AND ABUSE (OCSEA) IN GHANA
1. Accountability: To provide rigorous evidence on the effectiveness and efficiency of this project’s strategies to protect girls and boys in Ghana from online CSEA through an equitable, gender-responsive and integrated child protection system to both donors (vertical accountability) and the population groups affected by the programs (horizontal accountability).
2. Organizational Learning:This evaluation is expected to inform future Child Protection programme design not only within UNICEF Ghana, but also for global Safe Online project and among other in-country stakeholders working on protecting children from online CSEA. By identifying which of the Project envisaged objectives (included in the Management Performance Framework) were not achieved, the evaluation is expected to provide the Programme managers with viable corrective and scalable strategies to overcome such challenges in future.
•Assess the project’s performance using standard OECD evaluation criteria: the relevance, effectiveness, efficiency, coherence, impact and sustainability of the project.
•To identify and document key lessons learned, good practices and innovations in implementing the project.
•Inform the GoG, UNICEF, donors and implementing partners of Project achievements against their plans and aspirations.
•Ascertain the degree to which gender, equity and human rights have been taken into account during the planning, implementation and monitoring/evaluation of the interventions.
•Explore how scalable and replicable the project interventions are, considering different contexts within Ghana and the potential to extend these approaches to other regions.
•Provide specific and actionable recommendations based on the evaluation findings, as well as list most essential lessons learned that can benefit UNICEF’s future support to GoG programming in Ghana