Overview The Pacific region, home to a diverse population with over half under the age of 25, faces unique challenges and opportunities. With approximately 5 million young people more inclined to adopt new technologies, and recognizing the need for innovative approaches to protect the wellbeing and rights of children, UNICEF Pacific is leveraging this trend to enhance outcomes across its multi-country programme. UNICEF Pacific has established an innovation and T4D specialist position, and a national T4D officer. Its T4D strategy note outlines three key priorities: digital platforms for citizen feedback, strengthened government systems through digital transformation, and enhanced digital literacy. To streamline these initiatives, a standard operating procedure for deploying digital solutions was endorsed by senior management. Currently, 110 T4D and innovation initiatives are catalogued in UNICEF’s INVENT database, spanning 14 countries and territories in the Pacific. Over the past five years, UNICEF Pacific's digital transformation expenditures have consistently exceeded regional and global rates, with a significant portion allocated to data analysis, particularly the Multiple Indicator Cluster Surveys (MICS), and innovation efforts. This evaluability assessment is a crucial step in preparing for a future evaluation of UNICEF's T4D investments in the Pacific. It provides a comprehensive overview of the sub-region's technological initiatives and addresses critical questions of interest to stakeholders. By doing so, it offers the programme and its evaluators valuable insights to guide the scoping and conduct of the formative evaluation, helping to identify challenges and opportunities for T4D in the Pacific. This, in turn, will enable more targeted and effective evaluations, ultimately enhancing the impact of T4D initiatives on children and communities in the region. Report Details Year Published 2024 Type Project/Programme Joint No Partner/s N/A Consultant name Ali Safarnejad Agency Focal Point Ali Safarnejad Focal Point Email asafarnejad@unicef.org Managed by Independent Evaluation Office No Geographic Scope Country Country/ies Fiji

Overview The theory of change (ToC) for the UNICEF Pacific's Climate Adaptation, Environment, Energy, Disaster Risk Reduction (CEED) works in Fiji, is an analysis of causal mechanisms, grounded on evidence and predicated on the logical deduction that UNICEF actions, in the Pacific contexts, and given identified assumptions, will lead to the expected outcomes of the UNICEF Pacific CEED Strategy 2023-2027. The CEED ToC was informed by two consultations with stakeholders and government counterparts in Fiji and Vanuatu, along with extensive desk review of relevant documents, literature and studies of the topic. Report Details Year Published 2024 Type Project/Programme Joint No Partner/s N/A Consultant name Frederick Spielberg Managed by Independent Evaluation Office No Geographic Scope Country Country/ies Fiji

Overview The Pacific has among the highest rates of violence against children. Baseline Studies in several Pacific Island Countries and Territories show an average of 77 per cent reported use of physical discipline against children within the home. Nearly half of ever-partnered women report experiencing intimate partner violence. The percentage of girls who are married before 18 years of age is 18 to 26 percent in five countries. Violence in schools is common as well, with 27 to 67 per cent of children 13 to 15 years of age reporting having experienced bullying, 31 to 75 per cent having been in physical fights and 39 to 68 per cent having suffered severe injuries as a result. Data on children in contact with the justice system are limited throughout the Pacific, although available information suggests that the number of children’s cases proceeding through the formal justice system is quite low in most countries, and in general, the justice system is not very child-friendly to child victims, witnesses and offenders. The UNICEF Pacific Child Protection Program systems approach comprises of 3 interlinked components (child-friendly justice system; child-focused social welfare system; family and community strengthening;) supported by an enabling legal and policy framework and operational inter-sectoral coordination mechanisms. The Program outcome for 2018-2022 is for children in the Pacific to be increasingly protected from violence and abuse. With the advent of the end of the DFAT grant for the Child Protection Program in 2024, and in line with the UNICEF Pacific Costed Evaluation Plan 2023-2027, this independent evaluation will assess the relevance, effectiveness, efficiency, gender equality and human rights-based approach, impact and sustainability of the Program. This evaluation is intended to contribute to improved program implementation, learning, and to enhance accountability to donors. Report Details Year Published 2024 Type Project/Programme Joint No Partner/s N/A Consultant name PS Services Agency Focal Point Kathleen Letshabo Focal Point Email kletshabo@unicef.org Managed by Independent Evaluation Office No Geographic Scope Country Country/ies Fiji

Overview The Government of Solomon Islands has decided to roll out a one-year Primary Preparation Year (PPY) program for all children aged 5. The PPY curriculum intended to prepare children aged 5 years for primary school ensuring foundation skills for entry to primary education. The Ministry of Education and Human Resources Development (MEHRD) defined a plan to train teachers on the new curriculum and trial and roll out PPY nationwide in 2019. MEHRD developed the PPY curriculum with support from UNICEF, and it was piloted in Guadalcanal and Malaita provinces and Honiara city in 2018. Over 1000 teachers nationwide were trained in 2019 to prepare for national roll-out. The PPY program is being rolled out during a time of change to the education legislative framework with the Education Bill 2021 set down for enactment during the latter half of 2021. Solomon Islands’ National Education Action Plan (NEAP) will be finalized and approved in July 2021. As a significant new investment and commitment on the part of the Government, PPY needs to demonstrate achievements and results in its first year of implementation, and to identify challenges and needed improvements and plans to strengthen the program model and implementation at scale. This evaluation sets out to assess the performance of the PPY model as regards to its effectiveness, relevance, efficiency, and sustainability with an aim to inform decision-making for future PPY program and planning for effective implementation of the program at scale in Solomon Islands. By providing sound and credible evidence on what works, what does not work, how and why, the formative evaluation serves a dual purpose of both enhancing accountability and informing decision-making processes, especially MEHRD’s and UNICEF’s future strategies and program development in education. The primary audience of the evaluation are key partners in MEHRD, the Education Section within UNICEF Pacific and UNICEF Solomon Islands Field Office. Report Details Year Published 2023 Type Project/Programme Joint No Partner/s N/A Consultant name Pilar Aguilar Agency Focal Point Ali Safarnejad Focal Point Email asafarnejad@unicef.org Managed by Independent Evaluation Office No Geographic Scope Country Country/ies Fiji

Report Details Year Published 2023 Type Project/Programme Joint No Partner/s N/A SDG/s SDG14 - Life Below Water Geographic Scope Country Country/ies Fiji

Report Details Year Published 2023 Type Project/Programme Joint No Partner/s N/A SDG/s SDG13 - Climate ActionSDG7 - Affordable and Clean Energy Geographic Scope Country Country/ies Fiji

Report Details Year Published 2023 Type Project/Programme Joint No Partner/s N/A SDG/s SDG13 - Climate Action Geographic Scope Country Country/ies Fiji

Report Details Year Published 2023 Type Project/Programme Joint No Partner/s N/A SDG/s SDG13 - Climate Action Geographic Scope Country Country/ies Fiji

Report Details Year Published 2023 Type Project/Programme Joint No Partner/s N/A SDG/s SDG14 - Life Below Water Geographic Scope Country Country/ies Fiji

Report Details Year Published 2023 Type Project/Programme Joint No Partner/s N/A SDG/s SDG13 - Climate Action Geographic Scope Country Country/ies Fiji

Report Details Year Published 2023 Type Project/Programme Joint No Partner/s N/A SDG/s SDG13 - Climate Action Geographic Scope Country Country/ies Fiji

Report Details Year Published 2023 Type Project/Programme Joint No Partner/s N/A SDG/s SDG13 - Climate ActionSDG16 - Peace, Justice and Strong InstitutionsSDG3 - Good Health and Well-Being Geographic Scope Country Country/ies Fiji

Report Details Year Published 2023 Type Project/Programme Joint No Partner/s N/A SDG/s SDG13 - Climate Action Geographic Scope Country Country/ies Fiji

Report Details Year Published 2023 Type Project/Programme Joint No Partner/s N/A SDG/s SDG14 - Life Below Water Geographic Scope Country Country/ies Fiji

Overview The UNICEF Multi-Country Programme CP outcome for 2018-2022 is for children in the Pacific to be increasingly protected from violence and abuse, which is supported by three outputs: 1. Governments have strengthened child protection institutional frameworks. 2. Government and other service providers (non-governmental agencies) have enhanced capacities to provide child protection services which prevent and respond to violence and abuse. 3. Caregivers, families and communities have increased knowledge and skills to eliminate harmful practices and better protect children from violence and abuse. To ensure the CP Programme is well-designed, operationally effective, and the right mechanisms are in place for a robust monitoring and evaluation of outcomes and results in the next cycle, this evaluability assessment takes stock of the necessary conditions for a successful evaluation and get agreement around its scope and framing questions. Furthermore, the evaluability assessment will also aim to understand the starting point of key actions and outcomes against which progress will be measured in this new phase of the programme. The recommendations of this evaluability assessment aim to improve the eventual evaluation of the CP Programme as well as the design, planning, and monitoring of the UNICEF Pacific CP programme itself. Report Details Year Published 2023 Type Project/Programme Joint No Partner/s N/A Consultant name Tristi Nichols Agency Focal Point Ali Safarnejad Focal Point Email asafarnejad@unicef.org Managed by Independent Evaluation Office No Geographic Scope Country Country/ies Fiji

Report Details Year Published 2023 Type Project/Programme Joint No Partner/s N/A SDG/s SDG14 - Life Below Water Geographic Scope Country Country/ies Fiji

Report Details Year Published 2023 Type Project/Programme Joint No Partner/s N/A SDG/s SDG1 - No Poverty Geographic Scope Country Country/ies Fiji

Report Details Year Published 2023 Type Project/Programme Joint No Partner/s N/A SDG/s SDG13 - Climate Action Geographic Scope Country Country/ies Fiji

Report Details Year Published 2023 Type Project/Programme Joint No Partner/s N/A SDG/s SDG13 - Climate Action Geographic Scope Country Country/ies Fiji

Report Details Year Published 2023 Type Project/Programme Joint No Partner/s N/A SDG/s SDG14 - Life Below Water Geographic Scope Country Country/ies Fiji