Evaluation of ECHO funded Southern Afghanistan community and child focused services, water and sanitation programme

 This EU ECHO funded programme has as its main objective to provide
multi-sectorial humanitarian assistance to vulnerable populations, comprising
displaced people, refugees, returnees and host communities in Kandahar.
The project execution was severely influenced by the worsening security
situation. Expatriate staff had to be evacuated from Kandahar in February
2008 after credible and targeted threats. Certain planned activities, such as
the out of school children training, the excreta study had to be cancelled.
The programme in the schools in Dand also suffered under the worsening
security situation and could not be visited and monitored as wanted.
At the beginning of the project it became evident that the DoE has provided
little to no coordination and guidance: the list with schools needing support
in water and sanitation must have been provided to different donors as
some of the schools targeted did receive hygiene kits and trainings before
Tearfund could start its programme.