Mid-term Evaluation of Scaling and Institutionalisation in VVOB’s BETTER Programme
Client: VVOB Education for Development
Duration: 2024
Geography: Cambodia, Ecuador, Kenya, Rwanda, South Africa, Uganda, Vietnam, Zambia
Solutions: Evaluation
There is increasing recognition that to systemically improve education outcomes it is essential to work with governments to institutionalise innovations and deliver impact at scale. VVOB has been at the forefront of this work, including through the development of an Education Scalability Checklist to ensure that programmes are being designed with scalability and institutionalisation in mind.
The Better Education through Teacher Training, Education and Research (BETTER) programme is delivered by VVOB and government partners in eight countries. At the heart of the theory of change for the BETTER programme is scaling and institutionalisation of approaches to professional development for teachers and school leaders. For the mid-term evaluation of the programme, the focus is specifically on understanding how these scaling and institutionalisation efforts have progressed to date, and how they can be strengthened in the future.
Oxford MeasurEd has been contracted to conduct the mid-term evaluation, helping VVOB to understand how scaling and institutionalisation has been conceptualised and delivered across the eight countries. The evaluation aims to learn from the programme about how to institutionalise innovations and deliver impact at scale in education systems.
Key Activities:
Desk-based review of programme documents, and global documents related to VVOB’s definitions of institutionalisation and scaling.
Remote interviews with all eight programme teams to inform analysis and selection of case studies.
Three deep dive case studies to understand institutionalisation and scaling efforts so far.
Sense-making at country and global level to generate conclusions and recommendations for VVOB.
Ongoing collaboration with VVOB’s scaling community of practice.
