Children in crisis: Good practices in evaluating psychosocial programming

This guide from Save the Children aims to support staff in psychosocial program design and evaluation for projects involving children.

Contents

• Complex Emergencies and Psychosocial Development
• What Is Psychosocial Programming?
• Evaluating Psychosocial Projects: Overarching Principles and Project Logic Models
• Fundamental Goals of Psychosocial Programming and Defining Objectives and Indicators
• Identifying Data Sources and Methods of Data Collection
• Project Impact Evaluation
• Designing a Psychosocial Project and Building an Evaluation Strategy

Specific Options Mentioned

• Interviews p 61
• Focus Groups p 61
• Key Informant Interviews p 61
• Participant Observation p 63
• Participatory Rural Appraisal p 63
• Impact Evaluation p 67
• Randomized Controlled Trial (RCT) p 70