Final Evaluation of USAID/Benin HIV/AIDS Prevention Program (BHAPP)

USAID/Bénin commissioned a final evaluation of the USAID-funded Bénin HIV/AIDS Prevention and Care Project (BHAPP) implemented by Africare in collaboration with JHPIEGO from 2002 to 2006. The findings of the evaluation were intended to shape the implementation of any follow-on project.

Initiatives provided technical assistance via a two-person evaluation team, who spent three weeks in-country meeting with the National AIDS Control Program, the National AIDS Control Committee, the World Bank and other key stakeholders; health center personnel; elected officials; and staff of eight of BHAPP's NGO partners. The team sought to understand how the role of Centres d'Information, de Prospective et de Conseil, or CIPECs could be maximized in terms of National AIDS Control Program capacity building.

Initiatives’ Lessons Learned / Final Evaluation Report addressed the Mission’s primary evaluation objectives of assessing whether PMP targets were met, but was framed less as an exercise in dissecting strengths and weaknesses than as one of synthesizing lessons learned from four years of activity. USAID/Bénin and the evaluation team hoped that this framework presented the best chance of impacting in a positive way the work that will go forward under a new HIV and AIDS-focused initiative in Bénin.