Evaluation Study: Child and Youth Resilience Programs Among Refugees and Migrant Children and Youth Living in Turkey

SCI Turkey engaged Trust to evaluate the results and impact of its Child and Youth Resiliance Programs in Keçiören in Ankara and Ümraniye and Avcılar in Istanbul to ensure the delivery of high-quality programming and triangulation of internal M&E. Trust assessed the two levels of objectives for the evaluation study – program level assessment and assessing the capacities and competencies of partners. OECD-DAC criteria were used to facilitate the assessment of programing, and the evaluation also assessed the gaps in the design of the program, capacities, coordination, and monitoring during implementation. An in-depth desk review was conducted and this provided the basis for the inception report and the development of the evaluation matrix. A mixed-methods approach was used; Trust conducted 22 KIIs across all three locations with project staff and caregivers. Focus group discussions were conducted with both the beneficiary and non-beneficiary children and youth. In total, 30 FGDs were conducted. Additionally, Trust also conducted observations at activity sites to review the physical infrastructure and space of the current center. These findings will be used by SCI Turkey to improve the overall service delivery and to measure the impact of the programmes.