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HOPE Children's Foundation Africa (HCFA)

A newly formed charitable organization found in the Kawempe Division of Kampala, Uganda, HCFA is dedicated to helping the orphans and needy children in the community. The Project also provides help for those affected by HIV/AIDS by offering health care, community support and opportunities for income generation. HCFA aims to enhance community connectedness and improve the overall health and well being of the most vulnerable members of society. Read more.....

Monitoring & Evaluation

If you do not measure results, you can not tell success from failure
If you can not see success, you cannot reward it
If you can not reward success, you are probably rewarding failure
If you can not see success, you can not learn from it
If you can not recognize failure, you can not correct it
If you can demonstrate results, you can win public support

Adapted by Kusek and Rist (2004) from Osborne & Gaebler, 1992



image5 (39K)At HCFA we understand that continuous Monitoring and Evaluation (M&E) is vital to ensure that our programs are results-oriented and are making real changes in the lives of the people in our community.

The World Bank has defined 12 components of a functional M&E system for HIV related programs, which are:

    Organisational structures with HIV M&E
  1. Human capacity for HIV M&E
  2. HIV M&E partnerships
  3. HIV M&E plan
  4. Costed HIV M&E work plan
  5. Advocacy, communications and culture for HIV M&E
  6. Surveys and surveillance
  7. Routine programme monitoring data
  8. Supportive supervision and data auditing
  9. HIV database HIV evaluation, research and learning
  10. Data analysis, information production and
  11. Using data for decision making

HCFA uses these components as the framework for our M&E program and uses the United Nations Development Program Handbook on Planning, Monitoring, and Evaluating for Development Results as a guideline in conducting M&E.