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      FINAL EVALUATION 
        Philippines                                     Thematic window 
                                                        Children, Food Security and Nutrition 
                    Programme Title: 
                    Ensuring Food Security and Nutrition for 
                    Children 0-2 years old in the Philippines 
         Authors: Richard M Chiwara, consultant team leader                          August  2013 
                    Ellen Villate, team member 
          Prologue 
           
          This  final  evaluation  report  has  been  coordinated  by  the  MDG  Achievement  Fund  joint 
          programme  in  an  effort  to  assess  results  at  the  completion  point  of  the  programme.  As 
          stipulated in the monitoring and evaluation strategy of the Fund, all 130 programmes, in 8 
          thematic windows, are required to commission and finance an independent final evaluation, in 
          addition to the programme’s mid-term evaluation. 
           
          Each final evaluation has been commissioned by the UN Resident Coordinator’s Office (RCO) in 
          the respective programme country. The MDG-F Secretariat has provided guidance and quality 
          assurance to the country team in the evaluation process, including through the review of the 
          TORs and the evaluation reports. All final evaluations are expected to be conducted in line with 
          the OECD Development Assistant Committee (DAC) Evaluation Network “Quality Standards for 
          Development Evaluation”,  and  the  United  Nations  Evaluation  Group  (UNEG)  “Standards  for 
          Evaluation in the UN System”.  
           
          Final  evaluations  are  summative  in  nature  and  seek  to  measure  to  what  extent  the  joint 
          programme has fully implemented its activities, delivered outputs and attained outcomes. They 
          also generate substantive evidence-based knowledge on each of the MDG-F thematic windows 
          by identifying best practices and lessons learned to be carried forward to other development 
          interventions and policy-making at local, national, and global levels.  
           
          We thank the UN Resident Coordinator and their respective coordination office, as well as the 
          joint programme team for their efforts in undertaking this final evaluation. 
           
           
           
           
          MDG-F Secretariat 
           
           
           
           
           
           
           
           
           
           
           
           
          The analysis and recommendations of this evaluation are those of the evaluator and do not necessarily 
                   reflect the views of the Joint Programme or MDG-F Secretariat. 
      
                                                           
         
                                                           
         
         
         
         
         
        Final Evaluation of the Joint Programme: 
        “Ensuring  Food  Security  and  Nutrition  for  Children  0-24  Months  in  the 
        Philippines” 
        (MDG-F 2030) 
         
         
         
        FINAL REPORT 
        19 July 2013 
         
         
         
         
        Richard M Chiwara…………………………………………………………………………..Team Leader 
        Ellen Villate……………………………………………………………………………………Team Member 
         
                           A.           EXECUTIVE SUMMARY 
                                                
                           In accordance with the guidelines of the Millennium Development Goals Achievement Fund 
                           (MDG-F) M&E Strategy and Programme Implementation Guidelines, the United Nations joint 
                           programme  partners  in  the  Philippines  commissioned  the  final  evaluation  of  the  Joint 
                           Programme - “Ensuring food security and nutrition for children 0-24 months in the Philippines, 
                           (MDG-F 2030)”. The evaluation was undertaken from April 23 to July 5 by a two-member team 
                           of independent evaluators with an international team leader and national team member.  
                                     The unit of analysis was the JP MDG-F 2030, which in this context included the set of 
                           outcomes,  outputs,  activities  and  inputs  that  were  detailed  in  the  JP  document  and  in 
                           associated modifications made during implementation. The overall purpose of this evaluation 
                           was to (a) Measure the extent to which the JP delivered its intended outputs and contribution 
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                           to outcomes , and (b) Generate substantive evidence based knowledge, by identifying good 
                           practices  and  lessons  learned  that  could  be  useful  to  other  development  interventions  at 
                           national (scale up) and international level (replicability). 
                                        The JP intended to contribute to three outcomes; (1) increase breastfeeding in the JP 
                           areas  by  at  least  20%  annually,  (2)  reduce  prevalence  of  under-nutrition  in  children  0-24 
                           months by at least 3%, and (3) improve capacities of national and local governments and other 
                           stakeholders to formulate, promote and implement policies and programmes on Infant and 
                           Young Child Feeding (IYCF). Seven interventions were implemented. 
                                     (a)       Promoting  exclusive  breastfeeding  (EBF)  through  communication  for  behavioral 
                                               impact (COMBI). 
                                     (b)       Promotion of EBF for workers in the formal and informal sectors (EBF-W). 
                                     (c)       Establishing a human milk bank. 
                                     (d)       Monitoring the milk code. 
                                     (e)       Supply and distribution of micro-nutrient powder (MNP). 
                                     (f)       Recipe  trials  for  complementary  feeding  using  locally  available  cereals  and 
                                               vegetables. 
                                     (g)       Establishing food security and nutrition early warning systems (FS-EWS). 
                                      
                           Summary of key findings 
                                   
                           Relevance  
                           The JP was well aligned to the national nutrition policies and strategies, and particularly the 
                           Philippines Action Plan for Nutrition (PPAN, 2008 -10) and the Philippine Development Plan 
                           (PDP 2011-2016), both of which prioritised nutrition for children 0-24 months and provided the 
                                                                                      
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                             By definition, outputs are the products, capital goods and services which result from a development intervention; 
                           and outcomes are the likely or achieved short-term and medium term effects of an intervention’s outputs. 
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