World Vision Canada fails to show Impact in its $41 Million Gender Equality Nutrition program but potential to show project effectiveness is there

In this episode we review the $41 Million World Vision Canada project (www.worldvisioncanada.ca) entitled Realizing Gender Equality, Attitudinal Change, and Transformative Systems in Nutrition. More information about this project can be found at https://w05.international.gc.ca/projectbrowser-banqueprojets/project-projet/details/p011791001.A critique of the Performance Measurment Framework (PMF) for this project reveals 13 expected Outcomes for this project with 38 Outcome Indicators developed to examine whether those Outcomes were indeed achieved. This critique concludes that 10 Outcome Indicators are designed to enable to examine whether those Outcomes were achieved while the remaining 28 Outcome Indicators were considered to be poorly designed with no possibility of supporting the claim that their related Outcomes were achieved. Data on these Outcome Indicators are not available to the public which would enable the public to see if Outcomes were achieved.Flaws in Outcome Indicator design include using self-reporting bias instead of external objective measures as well as Outcome Indicators not related to the Outcome. Even for the 10 Outcome Indicators considered to well designed in measuring the achievement of its related Outcome, many of these Outcome Indicators failed to offer statistical significance analysis to show that the achievment of the Outcome could be attributed to the $41 Million project where that achievement was significantly different compared to the Outcome Indicator moving in the desired direction anyway in the absence of the $41 Million project or moving in the desired direction over time but with negligible effect (i.e. lacks significant Impact).Please sign the petition here https://www.change.org/EvaluateCanadaAid to have the Government of Canada require all Canadian taxpayer funded international development organizations release on their websites their Performance Measurement Frameworks (PMFs) or its equivalent and data for all output and outcome indicators listed in the PMF.For a 15% discount on sunglasses, and cotton polo shirts when visiting the Global South use this discount link: https://mydeals.page/1hjlDonate here: https://www.paypal.com/ncp/payment/ZAQD8888DEDXLOr at buymeacoffee.com/davidwand to help the podcast