Costed evaluation plan - Côte d'Ivoire - UNICEF country programme of cooperation, 2021-2025

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Costed evaluation plan – Côte d’Ivoire – UNICEF country programme of cooperation, 2021–2025
The table draws from the Integrated Monitoring and Evaluation Plan to cover present evaluations planned for the duration of the programme
cycle. Additional guidance on financial resources for evaluation is outlined in the revised Evaluation Policy (E/ICEF/2018/14).

                                                                                                                                                               Anticipated cost
                                                                                                                                                                and provisional
                                                                                                                                                              source of funding
                                                                                                                                            Expected         (regular resources
                    United Nations Sustainable                                                                                              start date            (RR) or other
                    Development Cooperation      UNICEF Strategic                                                                           (month and      resources (OR)), in
                    Framework (or equivalent)    Plan, 2018–2021 Goal                                                                       year, or year         United States
Evaluation title    outcome                      Area                   Criteria used for selection   Intended use of evaluation findings   only)                        dollars

Summative           UNSDCF outcome 4:            Goal Area 1            The Expanded                  The findings of the evaluation        July 2021         RR: 125 000
evaluation of the   By 2025, people,                                    Programme on                  will feed into the national                               OR: 80 000
Expanded            particularly the most                               Immunization (EPI)            review of the Sustainable                              Total: 205 000
Programme on        vulnerable, have                                    evaluation covers the         Development Goals planned
Immunization,       equitable access to a                               focus areas of key            for 2021, including target 3.2
2016–2020           minimum social                                      result for children           of Goal 3 and the evaluation of
                    protection floor and                                (KRC) 1 on                    KRC 1.
                    use health services                                 immunization. It is a
                    (maternal, newborn                                  country-led evaluation        The results of the evaluation
                    and child, reproductive                             with a summative              will be used to help define the
                    health, HIV/AIDS,                                   function covering the         strategic objectives of the
                    non-communicable                                    past four years of EPI        2021–2025 National Health
                    diseases), nutrition,                               implementation                Development Plan.
                    protection (child                                   (2016–2020).
                    labour, violence),
                    quality water, hygiene                              It will aim to
                    and sanitation,                                     contribute to the
                    including in                                        review of the EPI by
                    emergency situations.                               helping to identify its
                                                                        promising strategies
                                                                        and the major
                                                                        constraints to its
                                                                        implementation.
                                                                        This evaluation will
                                                                        also be part of efforts
                                                                        to improve the
                                                                        efficiency of public
                                                                        spending and the
                                                                        performance of
                                                                        different actors (State
                                                                        and non-State) in the
                                                                        implementation of the
                                                                        EPI.
                                                                        It will contribute to
                                                                        the process of

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strengthening national
                                                               evaluation capacities
                                                               and public policy
                                                               evaluation practices
                                                               pursued by UNICEF in
                                                               Côte d’Ivoire.
                                                               It also represents an
                                                               effort to generate
                                                               evidence related to
                                                               KRC 1 on
                                                               immunization.

Impact evaluations    UNSDCF outcome 3:          Goal Area 2   The impact evaluation      The results of the impact         April 2022     RR: 250 000
(midterm and final)   By 2025, children,                       will be guided by          evaluation of performance         (midterm       OR: 250 000
of performance        adolescents, youth                       criteria from the          contracts will be used to guide   evaluation)   Total: 500 000
contracts in the      (girls and boys) and                     Organization for           strategic decision-making
education sector      adults, especially those                 Economic Cooperation       aimed at improving the quality    April 2024
                      from vulnerable                          and Development and        of learning in schools at the     (final
                      households, have                         by the norms and           national level and                evaluation)
                      access to better                         standards of the           strengthening school
                      opportunities to                         United Nations             governance.
                      quality and inclusive                    Evaluation Group.
                      education, functional                                               This impact evaluation
                      literacy and vocational                  Beyond key questions       includes a midterm and a final
                      training.                                related to impact, the     wave of data collection and
                                                               evaluation will look at    analysis, with the initial
                                                               other aspects related to   evaluation (baseline) planned
                                                               performance                for 2021.
                                                               contracting, including
                                                               implementation and         The results of the evaluation
                                                               gender mainstreaming.      will feed into both the
                                                                                          evaluation of KRC 4 on
                                                               On the basis of its        improving the quality of
                                                               findings and               learning as well as the
                                                               conclusions, the           National Voluntary Review,
                                                               evaluation will guide      particularly in relation to
                                                               the implementation of      Sustainable Development Goal
                                                               performance contracts      4.
                                                               currently being tested
                                                               and will help to
                                                               identify promising
                                                               strategies in the
                                                               targeted areas with a
                                                               view to guiding the
                                                               scale-up of this
                                                               approach in the future.
                                                               It also represents an
                                                               effort to generate
                                                               evidence in relation to

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KRC 4 on improved
                                                                      learning.

Joint summative        UNSDCF outcome 1:         Goal Areas 3 and 5   The evaluation will        The results of the evaluation     July 2022    RR: 150 000
evaluation by          By 2025, young                                 focus on the strategy      will be used to report back to                 OR: 100 000
UNICEF and Save        people (girls and boys)                        on the provision of        donors as well as the groups                  Total: 250 000
the Children of the    especially those in                            cash transfers as a way    and communities that this
social safety nets     vulnerable situations,                         to increase children’s     project intends to serve. As a
implemented in         have greater access to                         withdrawal from work       first step, the evaluation will
Soubré as part of      socioeconomic                                  on cacao plantations,      examine whether the project
the Work: No           opportunities and                              as envisioned in the       has achieved its intended
Child’s Business       develop to their full                          Work: No Child’s           results or obtained unexpected
project to combat      potential.                                     Business project. The      results. Secondly, it will
child labour                                                          evaluation is also         promote the organizational
                       UNSDCF outcome 4:                              aimed at fulfilling the    learning needed to decide
                       By 2025, people,                               requirement to inform      whether to expand the cash
                       particularly the most                          both the donors and        transfer strategy. Thirdly, the
                       vulnerable, have                               the strategy’s expected    evaluation will guide strategic
                       equitable access to a                          beneficiaries about the    thinking within UNICEF and
                       minimum social                                 project’s major            its national partners on
                       protection floor and                           achievements. As a         community-based approaches
                       use health services                            joint evaluation by        to protecting children from the
                       (maternal, newborn                             UNICEF and Save the        worst forms of child labour.
                       and child, reproductive                        Children, this exercise    Fourthly, it will feed into the
                       health, HIV/AIDS,                              will be aimed at           national review process on the
                       non-communicable                               informing advocacy         Sustainable Development
                       diseases), nutrition,                          efforts for the            Goals, in particular Goal 8.
                       protection (child                              protection of children     Fifthly, it will stimulate
                       labour, violence),                             from the worst forms       organizational learning and
                       quality water, hygiene                         of child labour.           knowledge sharing with other
                       and sanitation,                                                           UNICEF offices and other
                       including in                                                              partners in the region,
                       emergency situations.                                                     particularly with regard to
                                                                                                 promising strategies for the
                                                                                                 achievement of KRC 5 on the
                                                                                                 protection of children from
                                                                                                 violence and exploitation.

Formative              UNSDCF outcome 4:         Goal Area 1          This thematic              The results of the evaluation     March        RR: 140 000
evaluation of          By 2025, people,                               evaluation will guide      will inform strategic thinking    2022           OR: 70 000
innovative             particularly the most                          reflections on             and decision-making related to                Total: 210 000
strategies to reduce   vulnerable, have                               strategies to accelerate   the strengthening and scale-up
maternal and           equitable access to a                          interventions to reduce    of innovative and effective
neonatal mortality,    minimum social                                 the maternal mortality     strategies to reduce maternal
particularly through   protection floor and                           rate, which remains        mortality. The evaluation will
uterine balloon        use health services                            one of the highest in      guide the implementation of
tamponade kits and     (maternal, newborn                             the subregion. The         interventions under the
the ‘kangaroo          and child, reproductive                        evaluation is intended     National Health Development
                       health, HIV/AIDS,                              to measure the added       Plan aimed at improving

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mother care’           non-communicable                        value, if any, of such    maternal and child health. It
method                 diseases), nutrition,                   innovations as uterine    will feed into the national
                       protection (child                       balloon tamponade         Sustainable Development
                       labour, violence),                      kits in reducing          Goals review process,
                       quality water, hygiene                  maternal mortality.       particularly on Goal 3. Finally,
                       and sanitation,                         Based on reliable         the evaluation will guide
                       including in                            evidence, the             advocacy for the scale-up of
                       emergency situations.                   evaluation will also      innovative strategies to reduce
                                                               help to guide the         maternal and neonatal
                                                               scale-up of this          mortality.
                                                               strategy, which was
                                                               initiated by the
                                                               Government in 2019.
                                                               Lastly, the evaluation
                                                               will contribute to
                                                               knowledge sharing and
                                                               strategic thinking on
                                                               successful strategies
                                                               for accelerating the
                                                               reduction of maternal
                                                               and neonatal mortality
                                                               within the country and
                                                               the region.

Summative              UNSDCF outcome 4:         Goal Area 1   This formative            The results of the evaluation       April 2023    RR: 200 000
evaluation of the      By 2025, people,                        evaluation will be part   will be used to report back to                      OR: 50 000
multisectoral          particularly the most                   of the Strategic          donors as well as the groups                     Total: 250 000
community-based        vulnerable, have                        Purchasing and            and communities that this
approach to combat     equitable access to a                   Alignment of              project is intended to serve. As
malnutrition           minimum social                          Resources and             a first step, the evaluation will
through Centres for    protection floor and                    Knowledge in Health       inform them about the main
the Strengthening of   use health services                     Project (SPARK) to        achievements of the SPARK
Community              (maternal, newborn                      meet the                  project, particularly regarding
Nutrition Activities   and child, reproductive                 accountability            the FRANCs. The evaluation
                       health, HIV/AIDS,                       requirements of the       will feed into the Sustainable
                       non-communicable                        project’s main donor,     Development Goals voluntary
                       diseases), nutrition,                   the World Bank. It will   national review process with a
                       protection (child                       also assess the added     focus on Goal 2. It will also
                       labour, violence),                      value of the              feed into the strategic
                       quality water, hygiene                  multisectoral             reflection on the consolidation
                       and sanitation,                         community-based           of achievements and the
                       including in                            approach to combating     scaling up of FRANCs.
                       emergency situations.                   malnutrition through      Finally, it will stimulate
                                                               the Centres for the       learning and knowledge
                                                               Strengthening of          sharing related to innovative
                                                               Community Nutrition       strategies that have the
                                                               Activities (Foyer de      potential to accelerate progress
                                                               renforcement des          towards achieving KRC 3 on
                                                               activités de nutrition    equitable and sustainable

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communautaires            access to education for
                                                                       (FRANCs)). The            UNICEF and its partners in
                                                                       evaluation will           Côte d’Ivoire as well as in the
                                                                       promote the generation    rest of the region.
                                                                       of evidence on the
                                                                       effectiveness of the
                                                                       FRANCs and their
                                                                       scale-up and the
                                                                       replication of other
                                                                       successful
                                                                       multisectoral
                                                                       approaches.

Formative               UNSDCF outcome 1:          Goal Areas 1 to 5   The formative             The evaluation’s conclusions      March    RR: 200 000
evaluation of the       By 2025, young                                 evaluation will focus     and recommendations will be       2023       OR: 50 000
programme on            people (girls and boys)                        on the effects of the     used to refine the                        Total: 250 000
strengthening the       especially those in                            cooperation               implementation of the country
resilience of           vulnerable situations,                         programme on              programme strategies in the
communities in the      have greater access to                         community resilience      area of community resilience.
convergence zone        socioeconomic                                  in the convergence        In addition, the evaluation’s
and the resilience of   opportunities and                              zones and on the          results will be used to report
basic social service    develop to their full                          resilience of basic       back to donors as well as
delivery systems        potential.                                     social service delivery   groups and communities that
                                                                       systems. The              this project is intended to
                        UNSDCF outcome 2:                              evaluation will be part   serve. As a first step, the
                        By 2025, women and                             of the effort to guide    evaluation will inform them of
                        girls have greater                             the improvement of        the programme’s major
                        access to                                      the programme’s           achievements, particularly
                        socioeconomic and                              performance based on      related to the implementation
                        technological                                  the lessons learned in    of innovations. Then it will
                        opportunities for their                        the first phase, with a   feed into the review process of
                        empowerment, and for                           focus on innovative       Sustainable Development
                        prevention and care of                         strategies, community     Goals 1, 2, 3, 4 and 5. The
                        all forms of violence,                         participatory             evaluation will also stimulate
                        including harmful                              approaches and the        organizational learning and
                        practices.                                     outcomes of the           knowledge sharing on
                        UNSDCF outcome 3:                              programme on              participatory, community-
                        By 2025, children,                             community resilience.     based approaches to achieving
                        adolescents, youth                                                       all of the KRCs for UNICEF
                        (girls and boys) and                                                     and its partners in
                        adults, especially those                                                 Côte d’Ivoire as well as in the
                        from vulnerable                                                          rest of the region.
                        households, have
                        access to better
                        opportunities to
                        quality and inclusive
                        education, functional

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literacy and vocational
                      training.
                      UNSDCF outcome 4:
                      By 2025, people,
                      particularly the most
                      vulnerable, have
                      equitable access to a
                      minimum social
                      protection floor and
                      use health services
                      (maternal, newborn
                      and child, reproductive
                      health, HIV/AIDS,
                      non-communicable
                      diseases), nutrition,
                      protection (child
                      labour, violence),
                      quality water, hygiene
                      and sanitation,
                      including in
                      emergency situations.
                      UNSDCF outcome 8:
                      By 2025, governance
                      systems are more
                      inclusive, accountable
                      and efficient and have
                      access to quality data,
                      and people live in an
                      environment where the
                      rule of law, labour,
                      gender equality, peace
                      and security rights are
                      respected and
                      effective.

Final evaluation of   UNSDCF outcome 1:         Goal Areas 1 to 5   This evaluation            The conclusions and              June 2023   RR: 300 000
the Côte d’Ivoire     By 2025, young                                complies with the          recommendations of the
UNICEF country        people (girls and boys)                       norms established in       evaluation will be used to
programme, 2021–      especially those in                           the 2018 UNICEF            guide the development of the
2025                  vulnerable situations,                        evaluation policy.         programme of cooperation
                      have greater access to                        Country offices are        2026–2030.
                      socioeconomic                                 required to conduct an
                      opportunities and                             evaluation of the          They will also feed into the
                      develop to their full                         country programme in       Côte d’Ivoire voluntary
                      potential.                                    at least one of the past   national reviews on the
                                                                    two programmes of          Sustainable Development
                      UNSDCF outcome 2:                             cooperation, which         Goals in relation to children.
                      By 2025, women and

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girls have greater         was not the case for   Finally, the evaluation will
access to                  Côte d’Ivoire.         strengthen organizational
socioeconomic and                                 knowledge on good practices
technological                                     and innovations introduced in
opportunities for their                           the country programme 2021–
empowerment, and for                              2025.
prevention and care of
all forms of violence,
including harmful
practices.
UNSDCF outcome 3:
By 2025, children,
adolescents, youth
(girls and boys) and
adults, especially those
from vulnerable
households, have
access to better
opportunities to
quality and inclusive
education, functional
literacy and vocational
training.
UNSDCF outcome 4:
By 2025, people,
particularly the most
vulnerable, have
equitable access to a
minimum social
protection floor and
use health services
(maternal, newborn
and child, reproductive
health, HIV/AIDS,
non-communicable
diseases), nutrition,
protection (child
labour, violence),
quality water, hygiene
and sanitation,
including in
emergency situations.
UNSDCF outcome 8:
By 2025, governance
systems are more
inclusive, accountable
and efficient and have

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access to quality data,
                    and people live in an
                    environment where the
                    rule of law, labour,
                    gender equality, peace
                    and security rights are
                    respected and
                    effective.

Formative           UNSDCF outcome 3:          Goal Area 2   The country-led             The conclusions and                  January     RR: 350 000
evaluation of the   By 2025, children,                       evaluation of the ESP       recommendations of the               2024          OR: 50 000
Education Sector    adolescents, youth                       is part of the efforts of   Education Sector Plan (ESP)                     Total: 400 000
Plan                (girls and boys) and                     UNICEF to support           evaluation will be used to
                    adults, especially those                 the Government’s            identify promising strategies for
                    from vulnerable                          efforts to promote          achieving ESP objectives. In
                    households, have                         public policy               addition, the evaluation will help
                    access to better                         evaluation.                 to refine ESP implementation
                    opportunities to                                                     strategies and improve its
                    quality and inclusive                    As the ESP is the           performance. It will also
                    education, functional                    reference framework         strengthen the institutional
                    literacy and vocational                  document for                framework for the coordination,
                    training.                                educational policies,       implementation and use of the
                                                             its evaluation will help    evidence generated to improve
                                                             to assess progress          the management of education
                                                             made towards                policies.
                                                             achieving Sustainable
                                                             Development Goal 4.
                                                             This evaluation will
                                                             serve as a practical
                                                             exercise in public
                                                             policy evaluation and
                                                             will strengthen the
                                                             institutional
                                                             framework, capacities
                                                             and practices for
                                                             public policy
                                                             evaluations.

Total                                                                                                                                    RR: 1 715 000
                                                                                                                                           OR: 650 000
                                                                                                                                        Total: 2 365 000

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