UNICEF India is commissioning a Real Time Evaluation (RTE) to assess and improve the relevance, coverage, effectiveness and efficiency of its COVID-19 crisis response, by providing immediate feedback and recommendations for improvement across the six pillars of response outlined above. The evaluation objectives are to:
1. Provide monthly feedback to the UNICEF India Crisis Management Team (CrMT) on the relevance, coverage, efficiency and effectiveness of its COVID-19 response. (Feedback will be provided on one pillar per month.)
2. Identify challenges and bottlenecks in service delivery and provide recommendations for improvement.
3. Involve partners, stakeholders and beneficiaries in shaping UNICEF’s crisis response to ensure it is more participatory and responsive to needs on the ground.
4. Act as a real time lessons learning exercise that adjusts and improves planning and performance, allowing for ongoing correction of the current crisis response, but also collects lessons for future health emergencies.
5. Identify and fill gaps in UNICEF India’s ongoing evidence gathering efforts.
6. Collect data for use in future evaluation/s of UNICEF’s response.
The RTE needs to start early in UNICEF’s COVID-19 crisis response to ensure that real time evaluation findings are considered alongside monitoring and other data to contribute to evidence-informed decision-making throughout the response.
| Year Published | |
| Type | |
| Joint | No |
| Partner/s | N/A |
| Consultant name | Shantanu Das |
| Agency Focal Point | Atishay Mathur |
| Focal Point Email | amathur@unicef.org |
| Managed by Independent Evaluation Office | No |
| Geographic Scope | Country |
| Country/ies |
Not Available
