North Macedonia:
Evaluation of UNICEF's Programs for Children with Disabilities
Donor: UNICEF • Timeframe: Oct 2021 – Oct 2022
The goal of our work in North Macedonia was to conduct a cross-cutting thematic evaluation of UNICEF’s interventions to address the inclusion of children with disabilities. The evaluation focused on UNICEF’s country program from 2016 to 2020 across four programs—child protection, education, social protection, and health and nutrition—as well as a comprehensive communication strategy aimed at including children with disabilities.
This 12-month evaluation activity gathered information to understand strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, innovations, and good practices in order to improve and sharpen further initiatives to ensure equity-based, inclusive service provision for children with disabilities. The evaluation derived lessons learned from the experience and existing evidence to inform UNICEF’s future programming that targets children with disabilities and their families at all levels.
Project Highlights
- Reviewed UNICEF’s comprehensive portfolio and conducted a desk review of interventions for children with disabilities from 2016 to 2020, including a review of research studies, government strategies, policy documents, and secondary source data.
- Produced detailed evaluation reports identifying strengths and areas of opportunity related to UNICEF’s portfolio for children with disabilities.
- Conducted country-level fieldwork in collaboration with IDP’s local research team.
- Used evaluation methodologies that include key informant interviews and focus group discussions with relevant stakeholders, UNICEF staff, national and subnational government stakeholders, and programme beneficiaries.