The DFID Programme to Accelerate Improved Nutrition for the Extreme Poor in Bangladesh aims to improve nutrition outcomes for children, mothers and adolescent girls by integrating the delivery of a number of nutrition-specific (or direct) interventions with the livelihood support provided to extremely poor people by three existing programmes in Bangladesh. These three programmes are the Chars Livelihoods Programme (CLP), the Economic Empowerment of the Poorest Programme (EEP) and the Urban Partnership for Poverty Reduction Programme (UPPR).
DFID has commissioned an evaluation of the programmes’ impacts and the Terms of Reference (TOR) for a mixed-methods impact evaluation (IE) of the programmes (dated 10 June 2012) are provided as Annex 1. The purpose of this Inception Report is to map progress to-date in meeting the TOR and in particular, to convey details of the agreed design, objectives, expected outputs and governance of the evaluation.
The objectives of the evaluation have been modified substantially from the original TOR over the course of the design phase in consultation with DFID to (a) ensure a robust and cost effective design for the available resources and (b) to reflect the actual programme implementation as currently planned. An earlier feasibility study was carried out in 2012 to contribute to the design reported here.
Also available is the Executive Summary:
MQSUN Inception Report and Design Document: Executive Summary
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