Impact assessment of Free a Girl Nepal Alliances Programme 2017-2020
Client: Free a Girl
Region: Asia

Project description

Free a Girl is dedicated to fight child prostitution and impunity. Free a Girl rescued more than 4,500 minor girls worldwide. As well as rescues, they focus on prevention, tackling impunity, lobbying and advocacy, and rehabilitating and reintegrating the girls. Free a Girl works with fourteen partner organizations in Bangladesh, Brazil, India, Iraq, Laos, Nepal, the Netherlands, and Thailand.
Women and children in Nepal are vulnerable to human trafficking because of poverty, illiteracy, natural
disasters and patriarchal social norms. Nepal is considered a destination and transit country for child
trafficking. Every year 6,000-12,000 girls from Nepal are taken to various destinations around the
world, mainly India and the Middle East for various forms of forced labour and commercial (sexual)
exploitation. The Nepal Alliances project is a project where the two partners Maiti Nepal and Shakti
Samuha cooperate to enhance and strengthen their cooperation and use each otherโ€™s expertise since
2017. A programme evaluation was conducted by BfW Services with the following objectives:
โ€ข Objective 1: To assess if the intended output, outcome, and impact of the Program are realized and the extent of Free a Girlโ€™s (partner) contribution towards the change.
โ€ข Objective 2: To assess Free a Girlโ€™s performance against the key research questions of Relevance, Effectiveness, Impact, Sustainability, Scalability and Lessons learned.

Project Scope:

The Impact assessment focussed on the Nepal Alliance Programme. The programme has been running since 2017 until end 2020. At the time of the Impact assessment the programme had ended its implementation. The evaluation focussed on outcome and impact level results and made use of (online) Key informant interviews and Focus Group Discussions.

Result:

The impact assessment revealed that Programme interventions were relevant in responding to beneficiaries needs related to individual rescue, protection, rehabilitation and reintegration as well as the social and political climate and attitudes towards victims such as unfavourable policies, institutional arrangements and practices. Assessing the programmeโ€™s effectiveness from a quantitative perspective, it is clear that this programme was particularly effective in having a holistic approach and tackling all aspects of trafficking. When analysing the ToC, data collected suggest the strongest impact is achieved in relation to investigation & rescue, service provision & rehabilitation, and re-integration. Hence, the programme was strong in contributing to SEC survivors returning to their communities or starting a life independently in a new community. Also, some of the interventions are expected to sustain. This is particularly seen in individual capacities of primary stakeholders, especially those who are working and living economically independent lives.

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