Monitoring and Evaluation skills

We are developing our ‘Monitoring and Evaluation’ skills – our national coordinator has been collecting feedback from our children to start to understand the impact our programmes have. In January 2017, we interviewed 128 children who had taken part in our Jinja (Uganda) coaching tour 2016, as well as their coaches and teachers. Here is a summary of what we learned:

• 65 are male, 61 are female (2 unknown)
• 58 live with single parents/uncle/grandparent; 56 with  both parents
• 119 would attend a health class
• 123 gave a positive reason why they liked NDT (reasons they didn't like NDT were losing games, the weather and specific positions they played)
• 121 gave positive feelings about the session (the other 7 were ‘pain’, ‘tired’ or  no answer)
• 112 are still playing netball; mostly girls and boys together
• Only 11 couldn't explain a difference NDT has made to their lives (discipline, have friends, feel happy, go to school)
• Only 12 didn't feel they could talk openly about feelings with friends and coache​s​

We asked our coaches and teachers more detailed questions and for some comments:

• Coach – “Netball has helped me to build self confident in myself, I have learn to set achievable goals and make decision and take responsibilities for them.”
• Coach – “I have come to know a couple of stakeholder in the field of sports even through it I have would attachment with kids and that puts a smile on they face.”
• Coach – “NDT program brings together both girls and boys to play netball this hasn't been common for me to see even when  I was in school in the days.”
• Teacher – “the program is good because is bring the pupil and the community together in term sports and provides sports equipment.”
• Teacher – “Getting new skill in netball, getting new friends, gaining the spirit of togetherness.”
• Teacher – “Improve on my physical and healthy fitness, make me to venture new place and making friends, made me create relationship with children.”
• Teacher – “Netball makes my life physically fit and healthy, it has given me the pride especially with in the community of Budondo sub county at large, it made my pupils to learn, love and have a trust in me, I have developed interaction with many people, I have become consultant.”
• Teacher – “They (children) have started sharing ideas and they have started telling me their problems."