Page 9 The training was conducted by Ms. Christine Scott, a Monitoring and Evaluation Specialist who has worked in the Caribbean region for over 30 years and has undertaken or managed over 50 different types of evaluation. By Trudy Waterman, Programme Implementation Officer, CARICAD I n March 2024, CARICAD successfully delivered a Terminal Evaluation virtual training workshop to participants representing 14 projects and eight Overseas Countries and Territories (OCTs). At the end of the workshop, between 70% and 80% of respondents agreed or strongly agreed with the statement of intent for the workshop’s three specific objectives of: • Increasing knowledge about the basic concepts about evaluations, and the benefits of, and process for managing an evaluation, • Improving understanding of how to manage the evaluation process, and • Building confidence in the tools and resources to enable them to do so. The overall goal of the training was to provide participants with the knowledge and tools that would enable them to competently manage terminal evaluations, and to support them in the preparation of high-quality final evaluation reports. Over the course of the two-day workshop, participants received training in several areas including: • Role, function and use of evaluations • Requirements for an Evaluation Terms of Reference • Evaluation Planning and Key Activities and Outputs • Planning and Executing the Terminal Evaluation Implementing partners were also provided with a Toolkit for Management of Terminal Evaluations which they can use as a reference document when planning and implementing their evaluations. Trudy Waterman The training was conducted by Ms. Christine Scott, a Monitoring and Evaluation Specialist who has worked in the Caribbean region for over 30 years and has undertaken or managed over 50 different types of evaluation. This initiative is part of CARICAD’s continued support to the OCTs under the Resilience, Sustainable Energy and Marine Biodiversity (RESEMBID) Programme. RESEMBID is a 47-project progamme funded by the European Union and implemented by Expertise France – the development cooperation agency of the Government of France and supports sustainable human development efforts in 12 Caribbean Overseas Countries and Territories (OCTs) – Aruba, Anguilla, Bonaire, the British Virgin Islands, the Cayman Islands, Curaçao, Montserrat, Saba, Sint Eustatius, Saint Barthélemy, Sint Maarten and the Turks and Caicos Islands.
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