The amended agreement expired on 30th June 2007. Since then Sida and CIVNET has entered into a different relation where CIVNET can be utilised as consultants and facilitators and which is regulated in a Memorandum of Understanding which was signed in October 2007. 2. Objectives of the End of Project Evaluation The main objective is to assess the impact of the programme from 2000 up to June 2007. This include the following: • To evaluate the achievements of the objectives of the programme through a systematic and thorough assessment of the results achieved of Sida’s support. • To ascertain to what degree the support as currently conceived, reflected Sida’s strategy and objectives with regards to human rights and democracy. • To assess to what extent the impact of the programme from 2000 up to June 2007 is a result of the Swedish support • To assess if the funds were used for activities agreed upon by Sida and CIVNET • To assess and to give an overview of the various activities targeted at communities • To assess the implementation of the programme vis a vis the rights based approach • To assess what has – or has not – been achieved in relation to plans? Is there a difference between planned and actual results, and if so, why? An analysis of feasibility and sustainability, including the implementing capacity of the partner in cooperation, should be provided here. What factors – inside or outside the area of cooperation – have influenced the results? • A clear indication if the results are value for money • General lessons learnt from the project. The evaluation should aim to answer questions if the initiatives for the strengthening of poor people’s (women, men, youth, boys and girls) participation and influence in decision-making has been increased through CIVNET’s interventions. It is some time not possible to assess long-term goal fulfilment, effects and sustainability until after the programme/contributions have been implemented. Therefore, it is important to give prominence to both short-term and long-term goal fulfilment (if there are indications of the latter). In this respect, it is not sufficient to say that the “result is good”. The results should be presented based on the objectives, as concrete as possible and where relevant in quantified values. The analysis must be broken down into effects and what they have led to for different target groups. Reporting effects is difficult and it is only in exceptional cases that it has proved possible to use the outcome analyses as advanced assessments of effects. It is important to refrain from imputing other goals to the contributions than those that were explicitly established when the decision was taken to approve the contribution. 3. Scope of Work and Methodology Information needs to be acquired through existing documentation at the Embassy of Sweden in Harare and CIVNET Head Office and in the Field. Information should also be acquired through interviews with various stakeholders in the field, particularly in the project areas and interviews with staff working with the project funded by the programme. 26 THE CIVIC EDUCATION NETWORK TRUST (CIVNET)) IN ZIMBABWE – Sida EVALUATION 2008:51