Ireland: Research into the benefits and challenges of achieving planned results through an integrated programme approach

Organization: GOAL
Country: Ireland
Closing date: 10 Oct 2014

Background

Since 2007, GOAL has been committed to achieving results through strategic integration of interventions across our programme areas. We define an integrated programme approach as one in which an overarching framework embeds a multi-sectoral co-ordinated intervention which seeks to achieve holistic social and economic gain for a community, including at the meso and macro level: significantly more than merely a collection of projects under one theme targeting micro level results. Specifically through integrated programming we are looking to achieve more effective results with wider and longer-term impact’

Across many GOAL countries, sectors and departments have worked toward a more integrated and coordinated programming approach. Some ways in which GOAL has sought to practice strategic integration include Community Health Teams working with the WASH teams to train water user committees (WUC) and sanitation committees (SC) on key health and hygiene messages. In many GOAL programmes key health promotion, nutrition and WASH messages have been harmonized and staff and community workers receive cross-training from all sectors or departments. Other practical efforts at integrated programming include; the close collaboration between nutrition and livelihoods teams in promoting micro-gardening and food security approaches; linking WUC to the Community Health Centres for operation and maintenance of water points; embedding our sanitation programming with a livelihoods dimension through ‘sanitation marketing programming’, and linking of sanitation programmes and immunization outreach as a joint endeavor with the Health Promotion and Reproductive Health teams. Examples of vertical programming include GOAL Kenya’s work with the juvenile justice system in which we complement our support for young children with work to strengthen institutional response and the national policy framework.

At this midway point in GOAL’s Irish Aid Programme Funding (IAPF) stream it is timely to review the success of integrated programming in delivering results in line with the commitments set out in our IAPF results frameworks. Key considerations include the conditions which promote integrated programming, and the tools, capacities and resources across the programming cycle that enable and facilitate integrated programming.

Objectives and scope of the assessment

Scope The research will investigate the strengths and weaknesses of integrated programming in three GOAL programmes in Sub Saharan Africa which receive Irish Aid Programme Funding: Uganda, Ethiopia and Malawi. The review will be comprised of a mixed methods approach, including qualitative approaches and document review to ascertain the successes of GOAL’s integrated programming in achieving results.

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How to apply:

Applicants should submit offers in electronic form to tenders@goal.ieby 5 pm on 10 October 2014. In all correspondence, please include in the subject line “GOAL Evaluation of Integrated Programming Framework.” Allow approximately three working days for a response.

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