This decentralized evaluation was commissioned by the WFP Benin Country Office jointly with the Ministry of Primary and Preschool Education (MEMP) in Benin and it covers the 2017-18 academic year and most of the 2018-19 academic year. It was carried out in 2019.
The evaluation was designed according to the following international criteria: relevance, effectiveness, efficiency and sustainability.
Overarching evaluation questions included:
To what extent was the intervention relevant to the context of Benin and the needs of the most vulnerable groups?
To what extent are the expected results being achieved and how effective was the intervention during the period covered by the evaluation?
How efficient has the intervention been?
To what extent is the intervention sustainable and what are the factors that contributed to it?