| General Information |
Project/Program |
Project |
| Project Name |
The Health Behaviour Change Communication (BCC) Project |
| Duration |
2005-2009 |
| Donor |
The European Commission and UNICEF |
| Implementiong Organization |
UNICEF |
| Sector and/or Subsector Classification |
Health |
| Region |
Cambodia |
| Financing |
5.7 million euros |
| Analytical Information |
Stakeholders |
European Commission; UNICEF; the National Centre for Health Promotion; National Maternal and Child Health Centre; Child Health Alliance (RACHA), |
| Cross-cutting Issue |
Environment |
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| Gender |
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| Impact Analysis |
One of the key positive long-term outcome of the Health BCC project on health promotion in Cambodia has been the creation of an adequate BCC policy framework. the BCC policy was completely revamped under the project to make it more applicable for key BCC stakeholders. NCHP reviewed and revised the policy with inputs from various BCC stakeholders, thus strengthening capacities at the national level in policy development. However, it is difficult to assess if capacity building at the national level will have a long-term impact, given high rates of staff turnover. |
| Effectiveness |
Ownership/Partnership |
Evaluation |
Due to the agreement formally signed with the principal funder, the EC, the BCC project functioned separately within the UNICEF organization, with its own staff. However, as BCC is a core strategy of the UNICEF country programme, it was difficult for UNICEF to apply the project in a useful way to the entire country programme. These issues were discussed with EC missions and during the initial stages. Efforts were made to include both the EC framework as well as UNICEF’s own management systems in order to take advantage of work planning systems. |
| Rating |
3/5 |
| Policy Coherence/Harmonization |
Evaluation |
The project steering committee, which was formed to provide policy guidance to the project, facilitate coordination among all institutions and groups involved, and advise National Centre for Health Promotion on implementation and coordination of planned activities, was simply a platform where progress updates were given. |
| Rating |
4/5 |
| Evaluation Framework |
Evaluation |
Final methodology for evaluation, including evaluation plan/tools, and analytical framework for the evaluation report. The evaluation was supervised by the UNICEF Monitoring and Evaluation Specialist. The evaluation cannot state to what extent the project contributed to increasingcaregivers/families’ knowledge and practices in the area of health, particularly antenatal care,Community Integrated Management of Childhood Illness, community care of newborns, and breastfeeding. As a large survey among community members was not conducted, it is difficult to estimate the coverage of caregivers/families with related BCC interventions and its impact on them. |
| Rating |
4/5 |
| Alignment/Composition of Finance |
Evaluation |
National Centre for Health Promotion staff working on the project received the agreed UN rate for category B, which was around US$130 per month, to achieve the planned results of the BCC project activities. At the provincial level, vice-provincial health directors were paid US$50 per month, PHPU staff were paid US$40 per month and finance officers were paid US$30. |
| Rating |
3/5 |
| Other Remarks |
The project was effective in meeting its national- level purposes i.e. strengthening National Centre for Health Promotion’s national BCC policymaking and capacity building to support implementation of BCC services at national and provincial levels. |
