UNICEF India has commissioned a Real Time Evaluation (RTE) to assess and improve the relevance, coverage, effectiveness, and efficiency of its COVID-19 crisis response in 5 Indian states, by providing immediate feedback and recommendations for improvement across UNIECF’s six pillars in India. The RTE was guided by the OECD – DAC evaluation criteria of relevance, efficiency, and effectiveness while considering equity and gender as a cross-cutting theme at every step of the evaluation.
As an RTE, we were engaged to achieve the following:
- Providing monthly feedback to the UNICEF India Crisis Management Team (CrMT) on the relevance, coverage, efficiency, and effectiveness of its COVID-19 response
- Identifying challenges and bottlenecks in service delivery and provide recommendations for improvement;
- Involve partners, stakeholders, and beneficiaries in shaping UNICEF’s crisis response to ensure it is more participatory and responsive to needs on the ground
- Act as a real time lessons learning exercise that adjusts and improves planning and performance;
- Identifying and filling gaps in UNICEF India’s ongoing evidence gathering efforts
- Collecting data for use in future evaluation/s of UNICEF’s response.
