Final Evaluation of USAID/Senegal Community Health Program (CHP)

USAID/Senegal commissioned a final evaluation of the USAID-funded Community Health Program (CHP) implemented by ChildFund (formerly known as Christian Children’s Fund) from 2006 to 2011. The findings of the evaluation were intended to shape the implementation of a follow-on project.

Initiatives provided technical assistance via a three-person evaluation team, who spent four weeks in-country meeting with key stakeholders, individuals and groups at all levels of the health system.  The evaluation team spent two weeks visiting different areas of the country where the CHP is implemented. The team sought to assess whether CHP’s goal to ensure widespread access to a basic package of primary health care services in rural communities was successful.  This goal was to be met by revitalizing and staffing a widespread (but underutilized) network of health facilities known locally as “health huts” or cases de santé.

Initiatives’ Lessons Learned / Final Evaluation Report addressed the necessity of learning from the experience to date and informing program expansion. In particular the evaluation team focused on the quality and range of health services offered to communities, referral and follow-up systems, community awareness, socio-cultural barriers to accessing services, and sustainability.  

Project: Final Evaluation of USAID/Senegal Community Health Program (CHP)
Funder: USAID/Senegal
Prime: Initiatives Inc.
Dates: March 2011-May 2011