HelpAge International (HelpAge) has a vision of a world in which all older people fulfil their potential to lead dignified, active, healthy and secure lives.
HelpAge International’s mission is to work with its partners to ensure that people everywhere understand how much older people contribute to society and that they must enjoy their right to healthcare, social services and economic and physical security.
Globally HelpAge International’s work is organised in the following thematic areas:
Overview of the Programme
The Adopt a Granny (AAG) and Sponsor a Grandparent (SaG) Programmes in Kenya have supported the welfare of older men and women for over 20 years.
The Sponsor a Grandparent programme which was an improved approach to the former AAG programme was initiated in 2006 and operates as a three-year programme through partnership with local organisations responsible for delivering projects to improve the lives of vulnerable older people in line with HelpAge’s global strategy.
HelpAge Kenya has acted as the local Managing Partner for HelpAge since 2006, often as a conduit for channeling funds and coodinating reports and their submission to the HelpAge International in the UK.
Funding from the scheme is based on the submission of proposals from invited local partners whose projects are vetted by HelpAge and HelpAge Kenya against the SaG Proposal guidelines.
The current SaG cycle of projects for 2009-2012 is supporting over 3,000 older people (including over 600 carers of orphans and vulnerable children) through 29 projects run by local partners.
The activities for older people across the 29 projects are diverse, but can be categorised into four areas: food and nutrition support, basic healthcare, Non-food items, regular cash transfers and income generation activity support.
Our partners in the SaG programme are often faith or community-based organisations, committed to provide direct support to the needs of older people but with relatively limited experience or knowledge on approaches that build ownership and sustainability in the longer term.
Consequently projects have been more focused on activity based intervention with limited emphasis on impact or outcome to measure longer term changes.
As such, we have come to realise assessing the effectiveness or impact of such a programme heavily oriented towards providing welfare is problematic without an external review.
Although the programme which has evolved from its original AAG form to SAG in 2006 has many positive features and has provided services to many thousands of older people, it has been recognised that with the level of resources available there are a number of inherent weaknesses that need to be examined.
First, the large number of projects/partners scattered in a vast geographic area has limited the opportunities to share scalable good and/or cost effective practices.
Second, this has also limited the ability of the programme to build the capacity of partners to improve their programme design, implementation and monitoring of projects by learning and adopting innovative practices.
Beyond a basic exercise to confirm implementation of the proposed activities by the 29 partners, the review exercise will be an opportunity to capture activities that are proven to be sustainable, innovative and effective (based on agreed parameters such as level of older people’s empowerment, promotion of participation by older people, extent to which the programme increased access to other services by influencing other actors to change their policies and practices.
Purpose of the Review
The programme review has several purposes:
The proposed time period for the review is between 28th November 2011 to 28th February 2012
Expected documentation
All interested consultants are requested to write an expression of interest by:
Deadline for application: 11th November, 2011
Please send your application by email to: helpage@helpage.co.ke
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