Interviews and focus group discussions. During a two-day preparation workshop and one office workday, the evaluation team developed a set of questionnaires and group facilitation guides (see below for the workshop agenda and methodology and the following pages for examples of the questionnaires) based on their own questions and questions presented in the USAID Final Evaluation Guidelines. Team members administered the questionnaires and facilitation guides to the following groups: Group No. of Interviews No. of Focus Groups Community women 19 6 Community men 6 5 Munic. and local authorities 32 Health personnel 30 Save the Children staff 17 1 USAID La Paz 1 Central MOH- La Paz 2 Others 1 Team members reviewed the results from the interviews and the focus group discussions during a two-day analysis workshop following fieldwork. An agenda of this workshop is included on pages 8 - 13 and the tools used to assist participants in consolidating the information are also included along with their results on pages 14 to 57. Lessons Learned from the Final Evaluation • Over thirty “stakeholders” from the MOH, APROSAR, municipalities and communities, SC and an external consultant, participated as members of the final evaluation team. Most participants said that it was the most participatory evaluation they had ever been a part of. To manage such a large team with a wide range of experience, knowledge and skills, we developed a methodology that aimed to address AID’s questions as presented in the guidelines and also those questions of our participants. Relatively simple matrices helped to guide the process. Much of the evaluation preparation and analysis was done in small groups of 4 to 6 people each oriented around the various groups participating in the project (communities, authorities, Promoters, service providers, SC/B and APROSAR) and the main categories of interest (Health Results (Technical Approach), strategies, capacity building, sustainability and program management). This worked fairly well, although there was some confusion initially about what “technical approach” meant as this is a relatively abstract term. • Do not schedule field visits on market days unless you wish to observe activities in the market itself. Many communities on these days were vacant and little interviewing could be done. • This evaluation was highly participatory and could have benefited from more time (at least one more day) for preparation, and analysis (one or two more days). Because at least a third of the participants ...
