I tascabili di AVSI, n.11 – Evaluation as Experience of Knowledge

This document contains the synthesis of the final evaluation of the AVSI’s Program of Orphans and Vulnerable Children (OVC) conducted by the Foundation for Subsidiarity (Fondazione per la Sussidiarietà ), an Italian cultural and research no-profit organization. The OVC Program has been implemented by AVSI Foundation in Uganda, Rwanda and Kenya, from 2005 to 2010, with the financial support of the U.S. Agency for International Development and AVSI itself.

This publication “Evaluation as Experience of Knowledge: AVSI’s Program for Orphans and Vulnerable Children in the Great Lakes Region – East Africa” has been made possible thanks to a project called: Company for Development: “Alianzas transnacionales entre Actores No Estatles, Autoridades Locales y la “comunidad” institutional para una cooperaciòn al desarollo màs eficiente” cod.DCI-NSA/2009/205-463 co-funded by the European Union.

The first objective of this project, started in November 2009, is to improve the information network and the exchange of best practises of non governmental authorities and local authorities, involved in the AVSI network, also including the following European NGO: CESAL in Spain, VIDA in Portugal, AVSI POLASKA in Poland, FUNDATIA in Romania and SOTAS in Lithuania.
The opinions expressed in this document are of AVSI and do not necessarily reflect those of the European Union.

Evaluation as experience of knowledge: AVSI’s Program for Orphans and Vulnerable Children in the Great Lakes Region – East Africa

Produced by Benedetta Fontana, AVSI

Authors: Lucia Castelli and Jackie Aldrette – AVSI , with the collaboration of Carlo Lauro and Giancarlo Rovati, Fondazione per la Sussidiarietà