Monitoring and Oversight of Technical Cooperation Projects
OCFT carries out monitoring and oversight activities to assess the performance, effectiveness, and impact of DOL-funded technical cooperation projects to combat exploitive child labor, forced labor, and human trafficking internationally. The principal monitoring and oversight tools used by OCFT to ensure all project activities are covered and results are achieved in a timely manner and in compliance with U.S. regulations are:
- Project workplans and performance monitoring plans
- Technical and financial progress reports
- Site visits
- Project audits and attestation engagements
- Project evaluations
Project Evaluations
Midterm evaluations take place as close as possible to the mid-point of the project. Their intended purpose is to evaluate the project to date and to provide recommendations regarding possible changes that may improve project performance during its second half of implementation.
Final evaluations take place close to the end of the project and focus on assessing project impact, identifying lessons learned and good practices, and considering how project-supported efforts might be sustained in the country. Certain projects undergo expanded final evaluations that often include a limited “repeat baseline” or follow-up study. The aim of such evaluations is to try to look at the details of a sample of beneficiaries to document how involvement in project activities may have affected their lives, and to learn from these experiences.
At this time, the following evaluation reports are available, in both full and summary versions:
Americas
Midterm Evaluation of Primero Aprendo Project in Central America and Dominican Republic
- Full Report [PDF]
- Summary [PDF]
Eurasia, Asia, Middle East and Pacific
Midterm Evaluation of Enabling Communities to Combat Child Trafficking through Education (ENABLE) Project in Indonesia
- Full Report [PDF]
- Summary [PDF]
Final Evaluation of Brighter Futures Program (Phase I) in Nepal
- Full Report [PDF]
- Summary [PDF]
Midterm Evaluation of Brighter Futures Program (Phase II) in Nepal
- Full Report [PDF]
- Summary [PDF]
Final Evaluation of Supporting the Time Bound Program for the Elimination of the Worst Forms of Child Labor in Indonesia
- Full Report [PDF]
- Summary [PDF]
Africa
Midterm Evaluation of Combating Exploitive Labor through Education in Kenya, Uganda, Rwanda, and Ethiopia Together (KURET) Project, Regional Report
- Full Report [PDF]
- Summary [PDF]
Midterm Evaluation of Combating Exploitive Labor through Education in Kenya, Uganda, Rwanda, and Ethiopia Together (KURET) Project: Rwanda Country Report
- Full Report [PDF]
- Summary [PDF]
Final Evaluation of Combating Exploitive Labor through Education in Kenya, Uganda, Rwanda, and Ethiopia Together (KURET) Project: Rwanda Country Report
- Full Report [PDF]
- Summary [PDF]