Rethinking HIV/Aids Programme Evaluation: Lessons from Malaysia and the Philippines

Abstract

© 2015 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. Funds to developing countries for HIV/AIDS programmes have noticeably increased. For civil society organisations (CSOs), one challenge of project implementation is the difficulty in assessing their interventions. A qualitative study was conducted in Malaysia and the Philippines with CSOs to identify the obstacles to HIV project evaluation. Twenty-five bodies-CSOs, donors, governments and the United Nations-in both countries were interviewed. The findings show that despite contrasting political and socio-economic contexts, both countries' CSOs share similar impediments to evaluation, including the lack of evaluation expertise, inadequate resources, onerous reporting obligations and constraints in evaluating interventions with marginalised groups.