End of Project Evaluation for the Postharvest management technologies for reducing aflatoxin contamination in maize grain and exposure to humans (Shamva and Makoni districts, Zimbabwe)
Duration: September – November 2017
Description of Project: This was an end of term evaluation which seeks to take stock of project achievements and their sustainability and lessons learned for future similar projects. Specific objectives included assessing progress, project effectiveness, lessons learned and best practices, documenting changes in production, use and effects of hermetic technologies on reducing post-harvest losses, producing key findings on extent of production and use of hermetic technologies, rating of technologies adoption, rating of reduction in maize loss by farmers using hermetic technologies, where possible evaluate the sustainability and the likelihood of impact of the project, drawing lessons learned from the project and providing useful recommendations to strengthen similar projects in the future.
Tasks: MDS was guided by ACF’s evaluation criteria of relevance/appropriateness, efficiency, effectiveness and sustainability in evaluating the project achievements, sustainability and lessons learnt. The MDS team employed quantitative and qualitative methods using a variety of data sources. Qualitative approaches were used to collect primary data for this evaluation while quantitative data was obtained from surveys, studies and monitoring data of the project.