Monitoring and evaluation is critical to the success of any intervention. It helps improve evidence-based decision-making, improved performance, better resource allocation, quality assurance, real-time learning, and long-term sustainability.
Understanding this need, South Saharan Social Development Organization, in partnership with ActionAid Nigeria, conducted monitoring and evaluation visits to various project sites under the Local Rights Programme to ascertain the progress made on the project. The monitoring evaluated the progress of the women’s peer education groups.
The impact of the women peer education group was analyzed using the women’s peer resource checklist. The women have adopted new sanitation practices, they are more aware of the effects of child marriage, and more women are now included in decision-making processes at the community level. The women have successfully integrated the women peer education teachings to their women’s monthly village meetings thus reaching more women.
One woman happily shared, “I learned personal hygiene, and I am grateful for this meeting. Before now, I wear my farm cloth for days because I believed that it’s work cloth. At times I can wear it for a week with all the dirt and sweat on it, even when I come back from work I don’t bathe in the night. I noticed I used to have rashes and I always get angry, my body was always peppering me, and I hardly sleep well at night. But after these lessons, I started bathing two times a day and washing my clothes every day, the rashes stopped appearing, I am more relaxed because I am sleeping better and my life is better in general.”
