Report of the External Evaluation of the ECHO funded Save the Children DPRK Programme

Save the Children UK (SCUK) has been operational in the Democratic Peoples Republic of Korea, (DPRK) since 2003, but had been engaged in DPRK for a number of years previously through the secondment of technical staff to UNICEF. Since arriving in DPRK, SCUK has implemented two programmes supported by ECHO focusing on the needs of children and their families through support to institutions, winterization projects and the provision of winter clothing and a small pilot water and sanitation project and through these various initiatives has begun to develop good experience of working in DPRK.
In October 2003, SCUK was invited to undertake a needs assessment in Tanchon County, South Hamgyong, with a view to working with the City Management Committee (CMC) in the implementation of the project addressing the basic health needs of the communities of Tanchon County. Following the assessment a proposal was submitted to and approved by ECHO for a 12 month project aimed at “Improving primary health care access and quality in South Hamgyong and North Pyongan, Provinces, DPRK.”
Within the project designed was provision for an external evaluation to be carried out at the end of the project to ensure that the project objectives were met and to assist in the learning process for the project staff for the design of future work in South Hamgyong.