BangladeshJan 2005 - Feb 2005 CARE
TANGO performed an end of project review for CARE-Bangladesh in order to identify the strengths and weaknesses of the programming and its development in addition to providing indication of the extent and effectiveness of the use of past monitoring and evaluation and Livelihood Monitoring data in programming. A component of this was the facilitation of a participatory assessment by CARE staff on the relevance, measurability, and replica ability of key indicators included in the baseline survey. The projects being evaluated extended over a period of two years and placed the poor and vulnerable at the heart of the organization’s work, utilizing a rights-based approach that addresses the root causes of poverty and injustice and sought to promote quality education and governance.
Integrated Rice-Fish II Qualitative Project Impact Evaluation
BangladeshJan 2001 CARE
TANGO provided technical assistance in the design of the Impact evaluation of INTERFISH II Project and prepared the analytical report. The study was designed to understand the strategic overview of the project using a livelihoods framework, to assess the impact of the project and to identify and document the lessons learned. An interdisciplinary team led by CARE’s Livelihoods Coordinator implemented the assessment. The methodology employed in the evaluation was based on multi-method, iterative approach to assessment. Secondary data was reviewed and then extensive field work was conducted using a range of qualitative PRA tools.
Livelihood Assessment for FTEP II
BangladeshJan 2001 Department for International Development (DFID)
This mid-term evaluation of the FTEP II project in Bangladesh is a strategic overview of the project progress using the livelihoods framework. It reviews the existing project logical framework (logframe), highlights discrepancies or inconsistencies and makes suggestions. Additionally, it considers how the logframe can be harmonized with approaches adopted by other projects.
Northwest Bangladesh Livelihood Assessment
BangladeshDec 2000 Department for International Development (DFID)
This assessment evaluates the impact of the Northwest Fisheries II Project on the livelihoods of poor farmers in the northwest region of Bangladesh. It was carried out in four districts to identify the major factors that broadly influence livelihood options. The factors studied included ecological, social, nutritional and governance variables.
Northwest and Southeast Livelihood Baseline
Bangladesh CARE / Department for International Development (DFID)
TANGO International assisted CARE Bangladesh and the UK Department for International Development by providing technical support in conducting baseline surveys. The surveys were designed to measure the livelihoods impact of two CARE projects in Northwest and Southeast regions of Bangladesh. Both projects seek to improve homestead vegetable production and integrated rice-fish production. The assessment provides suggestions to increase the effectiveness of project interventions, to identify best practices, and to establish a livelihood monitoring system.
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Rural Livelihoods Evaluation Partnership (RLEP)
Bangladesh Information, Training, and Development (ITAD) / SocioConsult / Social Development Direct (SDD) / Bangladesh Engineering and Technical Services (BETS)
TANGO has partnered with ITAD, SocioConsult, SDD, and BETS to provide undertake the Monitoring and Evaluation portfolio of DfID Rural Livelihood Evaluation Partnership projects in Bangladesh. The association is responsible for three types of reviews: Output-to-Purpose, End-of-Project, and Inception Reviews for ten ongoing projects. In addition, the consortium is developing and managing a system of lesson learning across the projects and communicating these lessons learned to decision makers. Finally, TANGO, in association with partners, is working to develop the capacity of project teams in Monitoring and Evaluation.
Debt and Migration in Northwest Bangladesh & the dynamics of Debt in Southeast Bangladesh
Bangladesh CARE
TANGO International helped CARE’s Livelihood Monitoring Project in conducting two comprehensive studies on indebtedness of vulnerable households living in Northwest and Southeastern part of Bangladesh. The quantitative and qualitative studies are based on feedback gained from focus group discussions and household interviews. Both of the studies build on earlier findings of CARE/Bangladesh’s Livelihoods Monitoring Project baseline studies. These baselines were designed to assess livelihood profiles of the households and identify the critical indicators that would allow the systematic and quantitative monitoring of livelihood impacts in the country. In an effort to add quantitative and qualitative depth to these findings and inform future interventions, these two follow-up studies systematically documents the dynamics of indebtedness and its potential relationship to migration within selected communities and households in both of the Northwest and Southeast regions of the country. The reports focus on the number of key issues to developing a comprehensive perspective on debt within Bangladesh and the various impacts it has on the livelihood security of poor households in the Northwest and Southeast regions of the country.
Emergency Operations Guidebook
Bangladesh World Food Programme (WFP)
WFP Bangladesh has undertaken two significant initiatives to improve future emergency programs. Contingency planning that better prepares WFP to promptly deal with future emergencies, and Emergency Operations Guidebook to improve the timeliness and effectiveness of emergency operations. The Emergency Operations Guidebook was developed by TANGO International for WFP with the inputs from a wide range of stakeholders including WFP staff in Bangladesh. The guidebook describes systems in place for disaster early warning and immediate response, and presents step by step design process for EMOPs including appropriate procedures for monitoring, evaluation and reporting, documents required to get an EMOP funded, internal management functions and staffing issues.
The Impact of Flood-Proofing Interventions on the Livelihoods of Char Households: A retrospective study
Bangladesh CARE
CARE Bangladesh partnered with Local Government Engineering Department (LGED) and four NGOs to pilot a 3-year Flood Proofing Project (FPP) from 1997 to 1999 to combat the negative impacts of floods on livelihoods. In 2002, TANGO International was contracted to conduct a retrospective study to document the extent and level of current household and community ownership and participation in various project-initiated activities; document intended and unintended consequences; assess land value changes after the flood proofing measures were incorporated; explore how the relative economic and social status of people living on char areas has changed over time; and determine the roles that stakeholders continue to play and how they influenced the projects’ outcomes. The intention of the study was to inform both Title II food aid programs and non-Title II programs, and provide CARE Bangladesh with both a comprehensive example of sustainability assessment methodology and evidence-based community responses of post-project interventions.
DfID Monitoring and Evaluation of WFP Emergency Operation 6317
Bangladesh Department for International Development (DfID)
TANGO was contracted to assist in monitoring of emergency food and non food assistance provided by WFP and DFID in the wake of massive floods in six south-western districts of Bangladesh in September of 2000. A TANGO consultant served as team leader of a DfID assembled monitoring team to undertake both qualitative and quantitative assessments of the WFP Flood Response, contribute to the design of an appropriate evaluation framework, provide training for monitors, establish a database training system, support collection and management of information, and analyze and interpret results to verify findings and recommendations. TANGO undertook both qualitative and quantitative assessments of the WFP Flood Response; contributed to the design of an appropriate framework for an evaluation of the WFP response; provided training for monitors; established a database a collection system that ensures key data sets can be collected and analyzed; provided technical and management support to the DFID monitoring team; and analyzed and interpreted results including working with WFP management and monitoring teams to verify findings and recommendations.
Emergency Food Aid Assistance to Flood-affected People in Southwestern Bangladesh
Bangladesh World Food Programme (WFP)
This evaluation synthesizes lessons learned from an evaluation of food and non-food relief managed by the World Food Programme. Relief was in response to flooding that affected approximately 2.7 million people in six southwestern districts of Bangladesh. The impact of the flood was enormous and produced a significant loss of houses, possessions, crops, livestock and community infrastructure.
Support for University Fisheries Education and Research (SUFER) Assessment
Bangladesh Department for International Development (DFID)
TANGO was contracted to assess the Support for University Fisheries Education and Research (SUFER) project, a project designed to increase the capability of the universities to deliver appropriate, relevant and poverty-sensitive support to the sector. The assessment suggested ways to improve project strategies relevant to the poor in addition to ways of improving interaction with rural communities.
Midterm Evaluation: Integrated Food Security Program (IFSP)
Bangladesh CARE
This mid-term evaluation of Integrated Food Security Program (IFSP) in Bangladesh assessed the project’s ability to promote and protect household income and community resources and assets; to improve health, hygiene and nutritional practices of vulnerable groups; and to promote effective and sustainable institutional support systems. The project reviews the current progress of each IFSP component with respect to its implementation strategies to assess whether its goals are likely to be achieved.
A Livelihood Analysis of Shrimp Fry Collectors in Bangladesh: Future Prospects in Relation to a Wild Fry Collection Ban
Bangladesh Department for International Development (DFID)
This project investigates the policy impacts of a shrimp fry ban on the livelihoods of shrimp fry collectors. It explores the alternative livelihood options to fry collection. Policy recommendations are grounded in the different institutional, social, economic and environmental contexts that fry collectors live. As the shrimp sector has grown and become dependent on global markets, it is increasingly vulnerable to outside criticism of its environmental, social and economic practices. Any concerns with sustainable livelihoods of the poor fry collectors at the local level must relate this to sustainable trade at the global level.
Food Security, Food Aid and HIV/AIDS Study
CambodiaFeb 2001 World Food Programme (WFP)
This is one of several World Food Programme (WFP) commissioned projects as a part of a global effort to better understand the links between food security and HIV and AIDS, and to determine how WFP's programmes can address the food insecurity of people living with HIV and AIDS. The project evaluates existing WFP interventions and makes recommendations about the use of food aid for HIV/AIDS strategic programming. The project also identifies socioeconomic factors that have contributed to the epidemic.Final Evaluation of the Maternal and Infant Survival Program (MISP)
IndiaJan 2005 - Feb 2005 CARE
The Maternal and Infant Survival Program (MISP) has been operating in India since 1996. The goal of the project was to bring sustainable and qualitative improvement in the health and nutrition status of pregnant women and lactating mothers and their children less than 2 years old by increasing their access to health care services, health information, and supplementary food. TANGO Int’l performed the final evaluation of the project, reviewing the impacts and effectiveness of the program with the intention of utilizing the achievements to inform the development of a proposal based on MISP best practices.
Banda Aceh Baseline Survey Planning Mission
IndonesiaMar 2005 - Apr 2005 CARE
TANGO assisted CARE-Indonesia in designing and implementing a Livelihoods Monitoring System (LMS) capable of responding to the full range of information needs for the recovery activities and livelihood changes as a result of the recent tsunami in the region. As a foundation for developing the LMS, CARE-Indonesia and TANGO will perform a baseline survey that utilizes both quantitative and qualitative methods in establishing key livelihood indicators. The goal of the Livelihoods Monitoring System is to improve CARE-Indonesia’s understanding of urban/peri-urban livelihoods in the post-disaster context and to increase the effectiveness of its development programs.
Safe Water Systems Baseline Survey
IndonesiaDec 2003 - May 2005 Centers for Disease Control (CDC) / USAID
TANGO designed and supervised a quantitative and qualitative survey to determine baseline values of important indicators of drinking water sources, water quality, storage and use practices, and household measures used to ensure safe water. These baseline values were used for comparisons to determine behavioral changes that take place as a result of development efforts by U.S. and United Nations organizations. The survey collected demographic and livelihood data in order to disaggregate water use behaviors by important household-level socio-economic criteria. Then, TANGO worked with local consultants to determine key aspects of water use to guide refinement of strategies to increase the use of safe water in Tangerang Municipality and Mauk (a peri-urban area of Tangerang District).Household Livelihood Security Assessment of Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs)
IndonesiaAug 2001 - May 2003 World Food Programme (WFP)
This survey documented livelihood aspects of Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) throughout fourteen provinces and fifty districts of Indonesia. The survey included 5,506 IDP households, comprising 26,012 individuals. The primary objectives of the survey were to: provide baseline information on the livelihood situation for IDP households; explore the impact of IDPs on host households with particular reference to potential negative short- to medium-term impacts on food security; ascertain the heterogeneity of IDP situations nationwide and the potential for homogenous clustering of IDPs; and facilitate improved targeting of limited resources to build sustainable livelihood capacities among IDPs.
UN World Food Programme Internally Displaced Persons (IDP) Livelihood Survey
IndonesiaAug 2001 - May 2003 World Food Programme (WFP)
This was the first major study of Internally Displaced Persons in Indonesia and the most comprehensive study worldwide, commissioned by WFP in coordination with the Government of Indonesia (GOI), with assistance from provincial and district authorities, and international and national NGOs. The livelihood survey included over 5,500 households in 51 districts across the archipelago, to provide baseline information on the livelihood status and coping strategies of IDP households and impacts on host households and communities. TANGO provided technical assistance for survey design, data analysis and interpretation (utilizing SPSS). Deliverables included 51 district-level reports and a synthesis report of livelihood findings, culminating in a presentation of the findings at a joint WFP/GOI workshop in Jakarta.
WFP Food Assistance to Urban Areas: Jakarta, Indonesia Case Study
Indonesia World Food Programme (WFP)
This is one of several assessments commissioned by World Food Programme to provide a case study analysis of urban food assistance to improve its urban-based programming.
Support to a Coherent Livelihoods and Social Inclusion Monitoring System
NepalOct 2003 - Nov 2004 Department for International Development (DfID)
TANGO was contracted to DFID Nepal to develop systems to better monitor and evaluate the impact of DfID’s programme on improved livelihood security and, at the same time, ensure its programme is contributing to Nepal’s Poverty Reduction Strategy (NPRS) and its pursuit of obtaining the Millennium Development Goals (MDG). DfID Nepal required an effective monitoring and evaluation system able to capture the impact that its forty projects were having on rural livelihoods and relate this to the NPRS and MDGs. To achieve this, TANGO also aligned DfID’s CAP indicators with both its projects’ indicators as well as the NPRS and MDG indicators.
Livelihoods and Forestry Programme
NepalSep 2001 - Presentongoing Department for International Development (DFID)
The purpose of the Livelihoods and Forestry Programme (LFP) is to enhance the assets of rural communities through more equitable, efficient and sustainable use of forest resources. The LFP also seeks to strengthen both the district and national enabling environment in the forest sector. TANGO International played a key advisory role in the design of a livelihoods study involving Programme staff and stakeholders, where appropriate and possible. TANGO has provided technical guidance for a baseline study design that captures the requirements of the LFP and reflects issues of importance to key stakeholders and is appropriate to the logistical and security context. TANGO also advised on the analysis of the baseline information collected and identified key areas to inform the design of the impact monitoring system and the planning of future activities by the LFP.Summary of the Livelihoods and Forestry Programme (LFP) Training
Nepal Department for International Development (DFID)
The Livelihoods and Forestry Programme (LFP) focuses on forestry as a vehicle to reduce vulnerability and improve the livelihoods of the rural poor in seven hill districts of Nepal and three districts in the Terai region. The objectives of the training were to improve staff understanding of sustainable livelihoods (SL) approaches, enhance their capacity to recognize opportunities for SL approaches in other aspects of the program’s work, and to help staff be prepared to share and transmit the program’s approach with partners and stakeholders.
Asia Futures Scenario Planning for CARE International
Regional (East and Southeast AsiaJan 2006 - Present TANGO International conducted a regional scenario planning exercise for CARE’s Asia Regional Management Unit to help determine challenges for the Asia region in key program areas for decades to come. Through workshops and extensive guided research, different potential scenarios were created for the region. TANGO conducted an analysis of these scenarios against current trends and presented corresponding programming options for consideration.
WV Sri Lanka Baseline Survey Tsunami Response Team
Sri LankaFeb 2006 - May 2007 TANGO implemented a baseline survey for World Vision’s Sri Lanka Tsunami Response Team which included designing the survey and tools, training in data collection techniques using PDAs, and analysis and reporting. TANGO provided further assistance by evaluating WV’s Tsunami Response Team in May 2007. TANGO designed the sampling frame, reviewed the data collection tools, trained enumerators and programmed PDAs to enable PDA-based data collection. After a thorough analysis, TANGO generated a comprehensive, evidence-based report measuring the impact and making recommendations for programming to address tsunami relief and recovery in target communities.
CARE-Sri Lanka Assistant Country Director (ACD) Program
Sri LankaJan 2005 - May 2005complete CARE
As a response to the Tsunami on December 26, 2004, CARE-Sri Lanka has had to transfer much of its staff to Post-Tsunami Community Recovery and Livelihoods Development Program (P-TRDP) in order to address the immediate needs of people in times of crisis. A TANGO Int’l representative acted as an Assistant Country Director for CARE-Sri Lanka in order to ensure continuity in both pre and post-tsunami development programs. TANGO provided programmatic support in order to maintain CARE’s quality standards.
Project Design and Implementation for the British Red Cross Emergency Response
Sri LankaJan 2005 - Feb 2005 British Red Cross
TANGO Int’l provided assistance to the British Red Cross, in cooperation with the IFRC, ICRC and other national societies, is assisting the Sri Lankan Red Cross in conducting recovery and rehabilitation assessments, designing projects and undertaking a major emergency response to the Tsunami. A BRCS team has been assessing rehabilitation/recovery needs in the Southern coastal zones and will produce an initial analysis of support needed to support recovery of livelihoods of the most marginalized groups. TANGO will assist the BRCS team in providing detailed project planning support and assistance in the development of project proposals, addressing issues of monitoring and evaluation and targeting.