Link Community Development Interventions in Ethiopia, Ghana, Malawi and Uganda: Review of Evidence 2008-2018

This report was commissioned by Link Community Development (LCD) in response to internal dialogue within the organisation about the strengths, relevance and appropriateness of existing and ongoing evaluation practices. LCD implements interventions to support education in Ethiopia, Ghana, Malawi and Uganda and has done so for several years. Over this period a range of project evaluations have been commissioned as well as carried out by LCD staff. In preparation for a large funding bid to the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, input was solicited from the Robert Owen Centre (ROC) on design of evaluation research for subsequent project activities. As part of these discussions LCD and the authors formulated some objectives for a preliminary evidence review through a series of meetings in late 2018 and early 2019, which ROC was then commissioned to carry out.