The Uttarakhand Livelihoods Improvement Project for the Himalayas (AAJEVIKA) - A Mid-Term evaluation

The collection of data could be divided in three main phases:
1. Structuring of the analysis: Delineation of information gaps from the available documentation, questions design, and, consequently, drafting of the questionnaire (annex 4). All the accessible project documents have been analyzed such as: logical framework, previous evaluations, related publications, brief reports, IFAD’s documents on the project.
2. Field work: carried out with the collaboration of UPASaC-Purola. It has been characterized by a collection of informations and data from three main sources: i) participation in SHGs and project staff meetings, ii) discussions with several project managers, iii) structured interviews with the project beneficiaries and also with not involved people. Structured interviews start from a questionnaire draft, used as a guide sketch. Full data collected are available in the annex 6.
3. Final elaboration: of the data for the multicriteria analysis.
For each criteria the evaluator has collected identify specific indicators to be measured by collected data (by means of questionnaires). So each indicator can be measured with a specific scores. It has been decided to assign a maximum score of two points to each indicator. The maximum total score is still of 10 points. Therefore the score assigned to each criteria are equalized on a scale ranging from 1 to 10. The process is the following, it will be presented by each criteria.