How DELVe works?
DELVe carries out its work across four work packages:
Work
Package 1
Verification
Provides quality assurance of implementing partners’ monitoring and evaluation systems, as well as verifying the quality of the data they collect.
Key Activities
- Annual assessment of the Implementing Partners’ Monitoring and Evaluation systems
- Annual Data Quality and Perception Assessment to validate Implementing Partners’ results.
Work
Package 2
Ad Hoc
Advice
Provides independent and demand-driven advice to FCDO-N to help them support the Windows
Key Activities
- Design of the Portfolio Theory of Change (ToC)
- Development of the Portfolio Result Framework.
- Value for Money strategy development.
Work
Package 3
Formative
Evaluation
Focused pieces of research to support learning, adaptation and flexibility and to inform Implementation Partners and Portfolio programming decisions.
Key Activities
- Community Support to Learning (CStL) scoping study
- Education in Emergencies (EiE) synthesis report
Work
Package 4
Performance
Evaluation
Provides FCDO-N with rigorous and independent evidence for both decision-making and assessing the Portfolio’s performance.
Key Activities
- Performance Evaluation (PE) design
- Baseline Performance Evaluation 2022
Downloadable Resources
DELVe’s Knowledge Management and Communication work is cross-cutting across the work packages and supports the Windows.
- Our team will work collaboratively with the Implementing Partners to carry out system assessments of their monitoring and evaluation (M&E) systems and update them yearly.
- On a yearly basis, we will carry out both data collection and desk-based data quality assessments to validate Implementing Partners’ results.
- We will also update the systems assessments each year. This will help validate Implementing Partner results and generate confidence in the evidence collected.
- The Ad-Hoc Advice Work Package aims to provide a flexible, swift and effective demand-driven service to help answer questions that fall outside the other Work Packages.
- Responding to requests for assistance from FCDO-N and the Implementing Partners, DELVe will design and deliver relevant studies and other pieces of work to ensure all stakeholders have the information they need to continually improve their systems and processes.
- The Formative Evaluation team will work with FCDO, the Implementing Partners, the Government and internal colleagues to develop a pipeline of focused pieces of research and other studies.
- These will aim to help all partners make adaptive programmatic and potential policy decisions or fill in gaps in knowledge.
- The purpose of the Performance Evaluation is to build a strong evidence base for accountability and learning for PLANE and contribute towards improving learning outcomes and overarching human development goals in Nigeria.
- Working in tandem with all the other work packages, the Performance Evaluation will deliver baseline, midline and endline studies to answer the Evaluation Questions.
DELVe Consortium
The FCDO-N, the PLANE Windows, and DELVe will work together.
To generate evidence, reflect on lessons learned and use evidence for programme improvements.
Achievements
Baseline Performance Evaluation
DELVe completed a Performance Evaluation (PE) Design, utilizing a contribution analysis approach to evaluation. This PE design scored an impressive 97% on FCDO’s EQuALS (Evaluation Quality Assurance and Learning Service), indicating its exceptional quality. The baseline performance evaluation was conducted between October 2022 and April 2023. Future evaluations include the midline evaluation planned for 2025 and the endline evaluation scheduled for 2027, ensuring a comprehensive assessment of the PLANE’s progress and outcomes.
Verification
DELVe has successfully completed the Verification Design, Data Quality and Perception Assessment (DQPA), as well as the Monitoring and Evaluation (M&E) Systems Assessment for PLANE Windows 1 and 2. The outcomes from these assessments have been instrumental in improving the Windows’ M&E systems and facilitating the exchange of valuable lessons among them. DELVe is currently in the process of finalizing the Systems Assessment for Window 3.
DELVe Core Team
DELVe team includes national and international M&E experts specialised in education and FCDO contracts management.
UK-Based Team
Gregor MacKinnon
Project Director
Raj Popat
Project Manager
Sara Albertini
Assistant Project Manager
Chris Perry
Technical Director
Mat Pritchard
Technical Evaluation Director
Louise Wetheridge
Education Evaluation Lead
Cormac Quinn
PE Adviser
Ignacio Torrano
Formative Evaluation Manager
Nigerian Team
Zakariya Zakari
Team Leader
Tosin Akomolafe
Learning, Knowledge Management and Communication Lead
Nafisa Waziri
Education Evaluation Manager
Patricia Achu
Verification Lead
Achievements, Challenges and Lessons from Implementing Education in Emergencies Programmes
Education plays a pivotal role in society and it is a fundamental right of every child1. Unfortunately, certain societies are unable to fully benefit from education due to emergencies such as conflicts, pandemics, natural disasters, and other crises. These unexpected situations often disrupt the educational process. As a result, children are unable to attend school or continue their learning, which can have long-lasting negative impacts on their lives, communities, and countries. This is where education in emergencies comes into play – a term used to describe the provision of education during times of crisis. The primary objective of education in emergencies is to ensure that children and young people have access to high-quality education, regardless of the disruption caused by emergencies.
This blog post offers insight into the achievement, lessons learnt and recommendations from education in emergency interventions in North-East Nigeria. Focusing on a synthesis study on education in emergencies interventions funded by the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office in Nigeria (FCDO-N) in Borno and Yobe states, the author highlights key findings and offers practical recommendations for ensuring access to education in emergency circumstances. The synthesis study was aimed at sharing achievements and recommendations with the wider EiE community and inform ongoing and future programming.”
Blog posts
Helping Children Learn in Emergencies: Insights from Three FCDO Programmes in Nigeria
This blog aims to equip funders, implementers, and practitioners with the adaptive strategies needed to effectively navigate swiftly evolving landscapes, based on the UK Foreign Commonwealth and Development Office’s (FCDO) work in conflict-affected states of Nigeria over the past decade.
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Achievements, Challenges and Lessons from Implementing Education in Emergencies Programmes
Education plays a pivotal role in society and it is a fundamental right of every child1. Unfortunately, certain societies are unable to fully benefit from education due to emergencies such as conflicts, pandemics, natural disasters, and other crises.
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