Monitoring & Evaluation

Our monitoring and evaluation framework

The core office has commenced with designing a monitoring and evaluation system incorporating four critical components:

1. The Child Status Index (CSI) baselines and tracks vulnerability. Although only the baseline data has been collected and in is the process of being analysed, the CSI has made a significant impact on addressing underlying challenges in families that affect the HippySA process specifically and more generally the family’s well-being. The CSI is deployed on a bi-annual basis.

2. The School Readiness Assessment (SRA) will be conducted at the end of the two year term, i.e., December 2010. The Assessment will incorporate formal school readiness criteria as well as additional criteria deemed important by the ECD Sector, for instance, social and emotional readiness criteria. We also support parents in engaging the school to be ready for their child and reconfigure family routines and practices to account for the child’s varied needs as s/he enters formal schooling.

3. The Organisational Effectiveness Evaluation (OEE) will commence in early 2011 to establish the return on investment and levels of efficiency at site and core offices.

4. The Longitudinal Study (LS) will commence in 2012 with the first batch of child beneficiaries in the current term attending formal schooling. However a visiting Clinton Democracy Fellow (masters level graduate pursuing a practical study component) will conduct a retrospective assessment in June, July and August 2011 of 5-20 previous HippySA children and families.