Project evaluation will be the responsibility of the Project Evaluator and consist of two different evaluative strategies - formative and summative.

Formative Evaluation - Primarily qualitative in nature, the formative evaluation will be conducted through interviews and open-ended questionnaires. Mothers and student volunteers will be asked about the day-to-day operation of the Center, the topics covered in the volunteer training program, the attractiveness of the training materials, and other questions to provide feedback for the ongoing improvement of the operation of the Project. The Project Evaluator will meet regularly with project staff to share findings from the formative evaluation effort. Periodic reports will be prepared that identify the major findings of the formative evaluation and how they have been used to improve Project operation.

Summative Evaluation - Primarily quantitative in nature, the summative evaluation will begin with the establishment of baseline data at the beginning of the Project (using a random sample of mothers of young children to assess their food and nutrition knowledge) and then be conducted at 6 month intervals (just prior to each group of volunteers completing their Project service). Data for the summative evaluation will focus on the two primary goals of the project and the objectives of each.



Goal #1

- Pre/post tests of knowledge gain on the part of the mothers in health and nutrition information (Objective 1.1).
- Selected interviews of mothers to assess their ability to effectively apply health and nutrition information (Objective 1.2).
- Selected interviews of mothers to evaluate changes in the health of their child (Objective 1.3).

Goal #2

- Records of number of students involved in the project (Objective 2.1).
- Documentation of agendas/attendance rosters from all training programs (Objective 2.1).
- Documentation of number of mothers served and number of volunteer hours recorded at the PIAS Center (Objective 2.3).
- Comparative analysis of Goal #2 data with similar data from SERMAH (Objective 2.4)