Summative Assessment- Critical Assessment of the Plan International Sierra Leone WASH Proposal

Step 2
Analyse the project proposal according to these nine PDM ‘lenses’ or factors in separate sections, closing with a 500 word summary of the rationale for your decision and providing references to sources you have used to make your case.
1. Introduction: briefly introduce your critique, what proposal you are critiquing and what lenses you will be applying in your review. Then move to the assessment of:
2. Project Rationale: The degree to which there is a clear articulation of need and a causal analysis in the proposal.
3. Stakeholder Engagement & Coordination: Evidence of partnership and stakeholder engagement in the project design processes (assessments and planning).
4. Project Logic & Indicators: Clarity of the project logic in the logframe or theory of change, and targeted indicators of success. In other words, the planned actions are likely to lead to the desired goal and the indicators will measure success appropriately.
5. Evidence of Best Practices: The degree to which the proposed project is gender-sensitive, conflict-sensitive, engages community capacities and is disability inclusive
6. Sustainability: The degree to which the benefits (i.e. improved health, changed practices, improved systems) of the proposed project are likely continue after the project.
7. Organisational Capacity: The capacity of the organisation to manage and deliver.
8. Feasibility: The proposed project’s feasibility to achieve what is being proposed within the timeframe and overall budget available and in light of changing contextual constraints
9. Monitoring and Evaluation: The clarity and completeness of the plan to monitor and evaluate the project and its impacts.
10. Risk Analysis & Management: The degree to which risks to the project are thoroughly analysed and management steps are planned that will mitigate the risk.
11. Recommendation for funding (up to 500 words): The analysis should close with a 500 word (max) recommendation section that should summarise your auvice on whether or nol to fund the work. in the case of not recommending funding, this should provide a rationale for this decision that could be shared with those proposing the work. In the case of a recommendation for funding. this should identify any conditions or recommendations to be made to the applicants that they would need to address before begioning the work.
12. References: The analysis should provide al least hive and ten 5-10) relerences that provide the evidence base for your critique