Project Evaluations & Reports
Assessments, monitoring, project reports and evaluations are important components of NAFA’s project application and implementation process.
NAFA executive officers travel to Nepal each year (except in the Covid years of 2020 and 2021), at their own expense, to assess prospective applications and to monitor the implementation of projects previously approved by the NAFA management committee.
Applicants need to complete an application form and contribute either cash or in-kind to each project. Applications are assessed against criteria by a subcommittee of the NAFA management committee before a rated summary analysis of the application is submitted to the committee for consideration.
For larger or more complex projects and/or those funded through partnerships with like-minded philanthropists, reports and formal evaluations are undertaken by NAFA executive officers. Some of these evaluations have been undertaken by social work students from the University of Queensland, on placement in Nepal and supervised by NAFA’s Research and Evaluation Officer, Deborah Setterlund.
Examples of Evaluation and Project Reports are posted below.
Report on the Re-establishment of the Pasang Chowk Agricultural Cooperative
This project involved a funding partnership with the English Family Foundation (EFF) following the devastating Gorkha earthquake in April 2015 that destroyed the Cooperative’s infrastructure. In the partnership, NAFA funded the rebuild of the [...]
Interim Evaluation of Tawal Goat Project
INTERIM EVALUATIONOF TAWAL GOAT PROJECTNOVEMBER 2017 Introduction This project is a part of the re-establishment of the Pasang Chowk Agricultural Co-operative following the 2015 Gorkha earthquake, funded by a grant from the English Family Foundation. [...]
Interim Evaluation of Tailor Training Project
INTERIM EVALUATIONOFTAILOR TRAINING PROJECTNOVEMBER 2016 Introduction A six-month tailor training program was conducted for twenty women from five villages in the Tawal area. Women identified the need for tailoring training at a meeting held after [...]
Interim Evaluation of Improved Cooking Stoves (ICS) Project
INTERIM EVALUATION OFIMPROVED COOKING STOVES (ICS) PROJECTNOVEMBER 2014 Introduction This project funded by NAFA, involved trialling the use of 90 ICS (improved cooking stoves) in 8 villages in the Tawal area. Thirty-five householders in 8 [...]
Preliminary Evaluation of Adult Literacy Program
REPORT PRELIMINARY EVALUATION OF ADULT LITERACY PROGRAM TAWAL, RI VDC March 2014 By Dr Deborah Setterlund This report provides a preliminary evaluation of the adult literacy program at Tawal funded by NAFA. The [...]
Tawal Social Health Survey Nov – Dec 2012
TAWAL SOCIAL HEALTH SURVEY Nov- Dec 2012 Designed and administered by Ms Bimila Prajapati Supervision and write-up by Dr Deborah Setterlund (NAFA Research Officer) Interviewer: Ms Bimila Prajapati Interpreter: Beg Tamang Prepared for NAFA, [...]
EVALUATION REPORT
NAFA Child Education Sponsorship Program Vinayak Shiksha Niketan Secondary School, Thimi, Nepal NAFA members, VSN teachers and parents of sponsored children Researchers: Rachel Gehrke, Kate Miller, Nghi Vuong Interpreter: Ramita Shrestha Supervisors: [...]