Evaluation of the ECHO Operations in Zimbabwe (2002 – 2003) - Sector Report: Food Security

The magnitude of overall ECHO commitment to Zimbabwe, which has increased from € 0.5 million in 2001, through € 15 million in 2002 to € 25 million in 2003, warrants evaluation in order to undertake a lesson learning process for the purpose of ensuring the optimal appropriateness of future ECHO intervention.
The methodology implied briefings at the Brussels and Harare levels with ECHO, other Commission services, ECHO partners and other concerned national international institutions. At the field level, semi-structured interviews were held with beneficiary and special interest (e.g. women) groups; key informants; individual beneficiaries/beneficiary families. Ongoing triangulation of findings was carried out with project staff and government extension workers, and this process was finalised in debriefing sessions with the initially briefed institutions.
A key step of the methodology was the elaboration of an ex-post Logical Framework whose programme structure (left-hand column) is presented in Section 4. (Planned results) for the 2002/3/4 ECHO operation in Zimbabwe, as the main point of reference for the evaluation.