The main assumptions i have made during my project plan that i want to learn more about;
1. The high schools across Musanze district, Northern Province, Rwanda which can be represented at our project’s training session.
2. The possible funders that can support my project financially and in partnership with them.
3. The possible manageable number of students’ representative that can be educated about HIV/AIDS from our training session and pass on the new knowledge thoroughly well across Musanze district.


Project Management e-course ; Project Evaluation Plan

Project title : Youth Against HIV/AIDS 2011,

Project Manager: Dieudonne Irankunda.

Purpose and scope of evaluation: The purpose and scope of my evaluation is to share with the key project partners and donor the overall progress of the project and the impact of the project to the target group, as well as provide them with the accurate information about how the project’s money was spent. Through the evaluation i also want to learn more about any needs of the participants in spreading their new knowledge about HIV/AIDS in their schools and what could be changed to the training so that any possible future participants would be well equipped to spread the knowledge about HIV/AIDS. In addition through the evaluation i also want to provide recommendation to HIV/AIDS organization in Rwanda about how similar projects can be held through out the country and how high school students can be well taught about HIV/AIDS. More to that through the evaluation i also want to review what worked well and what did not so that i can improve my ability to design and run good projects.

Stakeholder involvement: the following people will be involved in the evaluation.

Students’ representative – we will involve the students representatives by getting their feedback during and after the project. We shall also ask them to form 5groups of 7 which will enable us to get the 5 statements at the end of the training about what they achieved through the project.

Project team members – The communications coordinator will receive any information about the participant’s initiatives to raise awareness in their schools and visit them, plus reporting to the project manager after seeing what has been done. The project manager will manage the evaluation and write a final report two months after the projects’ completion.

A headmaster of on of the participants – when the participants start taking initiatives to raise awareness in their schools, the communications coordinator will inquire from one of the participants’ headmaster to know how they are impacting their schools.

Partners and funders – The partners and funders will provide guidance about what they expect and in the evaluation. They can also provide a formal format for writing the evaluation report. They will read the final evaluation report and can give feedback/ask questions.


Indicators of achievement:
Objective 1: To have an event in 2011 high school students’ holidays which will gather 35 students’ representatives from different schools in Musanze district who will be educated about HIV/AIDS, enabling them to raise awareness in their schools.
Indicators:
•The number of students who complete the training session.
•The number of students who take initiatives to raise awareness about HIV/AIDS in their schools.


Evidence required, when it will be got and from whom;
1.Number of students who start training, at start of project, from Dieudonne
2.Number of students who end training, at the end of project, from Dieudonne
3.Statements from participants about what they gained, throughout the project, from the communications coordinator
4.Photographas of participants during training ,throughout the project, from a photographer
5.Statements from one of the participants Headmaster, after the project, from communications coordianator


Objective2: Provided that most schools around Musanze district have Anti Aids clubs select a club with a good song and sponsor them take it to studio.
Indicators:
• Competition between the groups
• The winner club’s song from the studio.



Evidence required, when it will be got and from whom;
1. The clubs lyrics of their songs, at competition, from Dieudonne.
2. Photographs of the clubs competing, at competition, from a photographer.
3. Statements/interviews from the clubs accompanying teacher,at competition, from the communications coordinator


Objective3: Have one story in the media (Newspaper) about the event with information about the actions of Youth Against HIV/AIDS in the training session.
Indicators:
• A published story in the newspaper about Youth Against HIV/AIDS 2011 actions in Musanze.
• The other Youth apart from our participants reads ours actions and our message.



Evidence required, when it will ge got and from whom;
1.A copy of the published Newspaper containing our story, about a week after our training sessions, from Dieudonne.
2.Quotes from the youth who reads our story in the newspaper, a week after our story has been published, from Communications Coordinator.


Baseline information: Before we start our project we will collect the statistics about the Youth who live with HIV/AIDS in Rwanda from any organization that deals with HIV/AIDS. In addition we shall collect the information about high school students’ knowledge on HIV/AIDS, how often they are taught about HIV/AIDS at school and at home. We shall collect this information from the projects participants while using the questionnaire method at the begging of the project.

Evaluation and tools technique: At the beginning of the project we shall have the participants write what they hope to gain from the training which we shall compare with the final statements about what they will have achieved from the training. In this process they will also write how they will share their new knowledge with their fellows at school.

On a daily basis we shall Get feedback from participants for them to get the most out of it, and share with others what is new to them after each lesson.

At the end of the training; make the participants form 5 groups of 7 to write about their new knowledge and achievements through the course.

After the training the Communications Coordinator will visit the one school where initiative about HIV/AIDS will have taken place to get to know how our participant are influencing their schools.

Logistical and resources consideration;
Time: Our evaluation will take place through out the life of our project and after two months of finishing training we will have written reports to major partners and funders, and the progress of our participants in raising awareness about HIV/AIDS in their schools.

Money: Our main costs will be Photographs taking and processing, communications cost between the project team members, follow up travel costs and food for the evaluation stakeholders during the 2 months of evaluation.( costs will be detailed in in the budget index.)

People: The project manager and the communications coordinator will manage the evaluation and can get assistance from the partners.

Approach to the analysis of information: At the end of the training session we shall discuss what worked well and what did not work with the participants, and from all the written reports we shall draw our conclusions about the success of the project.

Reporting and communication of outcomes/learning: within a two months period after the end of the project we shall produce evaluation reports evidenced by the participants’ statements plus the community peoples’ interviews. We shall send our written reports to our partners and funders, with recommendations about if similar projects can be done across Rwanda to better the knowledge of high school students about HIV/AIDS.