Footsteps 17

EVALUATION

What makes a successful project? There are no easy answers. Community participation, a real understanding of the local needs and priorities, motivated and committed staff will all play an important part. Careful planning of projects is a stage that is easily missed out in people’s enthusiasm to get on with the work. Unless the people working for a project give time to planning and setting priorities and aims, they will not know whether they are achieving anything. They will be unable to evaluate their work (in other words, to measure its effectiveness) and unable to adjust their work accordingly.

Please find below articles from Footsteps issue 17.

Bible study Our hands from the Salvation Army, Vepery, Madras. Read Ecclesiastes 9:10 and Psalm 31: 14-15. Ask yourself some of these questions... Which part of your body protects you when you fall? When some object comes near your eye, which part of your ... More >>

Editorial What makes a successful project? There are no easy answers. Community participation, a real understanding of the local needs and priorities, motivated and committed staff will all play an important part. Careful planning of projects is a stage that i... More >>

Female Health in the Indian Sub-continent by Mridula Banyopadhyay. The year 2000 is fast approaching and the goal of achieving ‘Health for all’ by the year 2000 is staring at us. In spite of all the programmes and policies to deliver primary health care, health for all has not been achieved... More >>

Footsteps and its readers Just as the survey has provided us with a fascinating picture of you, our readers, many of you have asked for more information about Footsteps and Tear Fund! These few pages give an introduction to Footsteps and to what our readers think of it. Tear... More >>

Fresh ideas for water... Fair shares with plastic pipes by Rus Alit. While I was working in Indonesia in the village of Sarinbuana with rural water supplies, a neighbouring village came up with their own interesting idea. The villagers of Gempinis found a flowing spring... More >>

Information sharing or 'Networking' Project planning guidelines There are few useful resources we can recommend on the subject of project planning. However, Tear Fund have prepared a series of guidelines on a variety of subjects, including Guidelines for Planning and Implementing Reli... More >>

Letters Earthworms We enjoy your valuable magazine and share the practical information among our farmer friends. Recently I have started rearing earthworms (Udrilus eugeniae) brought from Bangalore Agri University. They are doing well and multiply very fast... More >>

Project Evaluation by Lorna Campbell. Footsteps 11 looked at project monitoring and record keeping. This emphasized the importance of having an information system both to remind yourself and to let others know what is going on in a project. One important use of the in... More >>

Project planning 1. SETTING TASKS Any project is made up of tasks or activities. To make the project a success, the tasks need first to be carefully planned and put in order of priority. Here is a way of introducing some helpful ideas to your group or project worker... More >>

Using Mapping in Ethiopia by Peter Cormack. A team of visitors spent time with villagers in Sa-atusa, Ethiopia, gaining understanding of the situation in the area and the results of some improvements to irrigation work. After spending some time walking around the area, the... More >>

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