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The evaluation is commissioned by CONTACT in Bulawayo. CONTACT’s vision is to be the leading counselling organisation offering quality counselling and training programmes and services that are responsive to the needs of clients. The mission is to empower people, especially disadvantaged individuals of women and men, children and families to lead productive and fulfilling lives. The organisation is implementing a three-year project covering the period 1 July 2020 to 30 June 2023 funded by Misereor titled: Strengthening counselling and training services of Contact Family Counselling Centre in Bulawayo. A midterm evaluation is to be conducted to gauge the extent of achievement of the objectives and with what successes, challenges, lessons learnt and the recommendations to inform the future programme and projects.

Project objectives

12,000 clients (mostly women, children and adolescents, but also men) facing social and / or emotional challenges receive professional systemic counselling that enables them to identify viable solutions to their problems and live more satisfying lives; 1,200 children, adolescent girls and boys, and young adults living with HIV as well as their caregivers have received group counselling that enables them to understand, accept, cope and manage their HIV positive status; Sensitisation talks and educative meetings have raised awareness about the effectiveness of counselling in strengthening the rights of women, adolescents, children and men as well as family cohesion; At least 810 persons involved in counselling work such as police, health personnel, teachers, Church and NGO staff have acquired systemic counselling knowledge and skills.

Objectives of the evaluation

It is to assist CONTACT and Misereor to learn from the project implementation so that lessons can be drawn that can be the basis for instituting improvements to further project management. Furthermore, it is to measure progress towards achievement of the expected outcomes and to assess the measures that the project has put in place in order to create a positive impact in the future.