Final Evaluation Report (A)
On
“MAINSTREAMING DISABILITY INTO DISASTER
MANAGEMENT IN NEPAL/DIPECHO PROJECT - 2009”
SUPPORTED BY
HUMANITARIAN AID DEPARTMENT OF THE EUROPEAN COMMISSION
SUBMITTED TO
SOCIAL WELFARE COUNCIL(SWC)
Lainchaur,Kathmandu, Nepal
EVALUATION TEAM
Mrs. Durga Neupane (Bhattarai),Team Leader
Mr. Tika Kandel, Team Member
Mr. Giri Raj Subedi, Team Member
Mr. Gopal Kumar Shrestha, Team Member
Acknowledgment
It is an immense pleasure to us to have an opportunity to evaluate the project, which is
dedicated to reduce vulnerability of people with disabilities to natural hazards and enhance
the capacity of its partner organization to main stream disability into disaster management
plus build up capacity of its local partners to integrate disaster management into programs
for people with disabilities implemented by Handicap International, Nepal through its
project-DIPECHO, Nepal
The evaluation has been conducted as per the TOR provided by Social Welfare Council
(SWC). The evaluation team has tried its best to come up with relevant information, key
findings as well as appropriate suggestions/recommendation.
In the process of evaluation, our team is directly and indirectly supported by many helping
hands. First of all, we would like to thank Dr. Chhewang Namghel Lama Sherpa, Member
Secretary, Social Welfare Council for entrusting and offering the assignment to evaluate
the “Mainstreaming Disability in Disaster Management in Nepal (DIPECHO Project)
launched by Handicap International, Nepal.
Our special thanks go to Ms. Sangay Amina Bomjan, Programme Development Coordinator, HI Nepal for her personal and official input throughout the evaluation period.
We also thank Mr. Dulraj Chimoriya, DIPECHO Project Assistant of the very organization
for providing guidance and essential support during our field trip.
Likewise, we would also like to express our sincere gratitude to Mr. Ashok Bikram Jairu,
Director of NNSWA, Kanchanpur; Mr. Parmananda Kandel, President and Mr. Navraj
Gautam, Co-ordinator respectively of GYC, Baglung; Mr. Kapil Pokhrel, Programme Coordinator of PRERANA, Malangawa,Sarlahi; and Mr. Bishnu Chalise, Co-ordinator of
RWUA, Haripur, Sarlahi; for providing us relevant information, data and all other
necessary supports concerned to our study.
We too acknowledge the useful information, presentation and opinion particularly of the
focal points, staffs, drama teams, PwDs, youths, child clubs, stakeholders, community
workers, teachers, students, women groups, trainees, radio programmer of Apanga
Chautari in Kanchanpur, technician of rehabilitation and work-shops, members of Disabled
Concerned Groups and Disaster Management Committee, and so on who were interviewed
individually and in the focus group discussion.
Durga Neupane (Bhattarai)
Team Leader
List of Abbreviation
CAHD=
CBR =
CM=
CWs=
DIPECHO=
DM=
DP & D=
DPC=
DPOs=
DRR=
GYC=
HI=
HVCA=
IEC=
INGO=
MWCSW=
NAB=
NFDN =
NGO=
NNSWA=
NRCS=
PAC=
PWDs =
RWUA=
SWC =
VCA=
VDC=
VDRC=
VGS=
WDOs =
Community Approach to Handicap in Development
Community Based Rehabilitations.
Community Motivator
Community Workers
Mainstreaming Disability and People with Disabilities into Disaster
Management
Disaster Management.
Disaster Preparedness and Disability
Disaster Preparedness Communities
Disabled People’s Organization
Disability Risk Reduction
Gaja Youth Club
Handicap International
Hazard Vulnerability Capacity Assessment
Information, Education and Communication
International Non-Governmental Organization
Ministry of Women Children and Social Welfare
National Association for the Blind
National Federation of the Disabled Nepal
Non-Governmental Organization
Nepal National Social Welfare Association
Nepal Red Cross Society
Project Advisory Community
People with Physical Disabilities.
Rural Women Upliftment Association
Social Welfare Council
Venerable Capacity Assignment
Village Development Committee
Village Development Rehabilitation Committee
Venerable Groups
Women Development Officers
TABLE OF CONTENTS
S.N.
Contents
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Section I: Project Details
1.1.
Introduction
1.2.
Background of Project
1.3.
Objectives of Project
1.4.
Intended Outcomes of the Project
1.5.
Intended Beneficiaries of the Project
1.6.
Donor Information / Sources of Funding
1.7.
Objectives of the Evaluation
1.8.
Evaluation Team - Composition
1.9.
Organization of the Study Report
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Section II: Methodology of Evaluation
2.1.
Study Approach
2.2.
Study Design
2.3.
Sampling Procedure
2.4.
Nature of Data
2.5.
Sources of Data Collection
2.6.
Tools of Data Analysis & Interpretation
2.7.
Work Schedules of the Study
2.8.
Limitation of the Study
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Section III: Data Presentation & Analysis
3.1.
General Overview of the Project Implementation
3.2.
Achievements
3.3.
Achievements According to the Project Activities
3.4.
Financial Findings
3.5.
Remarkable Impacts
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Case Study I
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Case Study II
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Case Study III
3.6.
Objectives, Activities, Nature of Supports, Achievement of Supported Fields &
Beneficiaries of HI, DIPECHO Project, An Analysis
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Section IV: Executive Summary, Key Findings, Conclusion and Recommendations 35
4.1.
Executive Summary with Key Findings
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4.2.
Conclusion & Recommendations
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