Magister Artium (Development Studies) - MA(DVS) / This study is an assessment of participatory monitoring and evaluation in NGOs: a case study of SOS Children’s Village,Cape town, South Africa. The aim of the study is to examine the process of application of PM&E framework in the SOS Children’s Village Project, with a view to ascertaining its impact on the project and to provide suggestions and recommendations to SOS and NGOs in South Africa. There were four primary objectives of this study: to provide a theoretical and conceptual framework, through the discussion and/or analysis of applicable PM&E theories and concepts; to provide an overview of organizational structure of the project implementation team of SOS; to identify the different stakeholders involved in the monitoring and evaluation process; to empirically assess the process of PM&E in the SOS Project. The theoretical and conceptual framework of participatory development approach and the child rights based approach is used in this study. Both quantitative and qualitative methods of research are used throughout the study and measurement of key variables are made. While the systematic random sampling technique is utilised to collect data for the quantitative research, purposive sampling was used to select respondents for semi-structured interviews in the qualitative research. The study identified that the monitoring and evaluation process in SOS Children’s Village, Cape Town, South Africa is participatory in which the relevant stakeholders, especially the beneficiaries i.e. children participate in the monitoring and evaluation process. However, the study recommended that there should be an updated training and seminar for the staff to empower them to enhance their understanding of participatory monitoring and evaluation.

Kiekvieno vaiko prigimtinė teisė augti savo šeimoje – saugioje ir jo raidos poreikius atitinkančioje aplinkoje. Deja, kasmet daugėja vaikų, savo šeimose patiriančių nepriežiūrą ir apleistumą, skurdą, prievartą, tėvų piktnaudžiavimą savo valdžia ir pan. Kai biologinė vaiko šeima nebepajėgi tenkinti svarbiausių vaiko interesų, jos funkcijas perima globos institucijos. Lietuvoje vaiko teises ir apsaugą reglamentuojantys pagrindiniai įstatymai pabrėžia būtinybę padėti vaikams iš socialinės rizikos šeimų išvengti socialinės atskirties, sukurti jiems palankias gyvenimo sąlygas bei teikti ugdymo paslaugas, kad jie galėtų vystyti savo socialinius įgūdžius. Globos įstaigos mūsų šalyje − bene pagrindinės institucijos, įgaliotos padėti tėvų globos netekusiems vaikams. Kartu pabrėžiama būtinybė iš esmės keisti požiūrį į vaiko globos klausimus, remiantis pagrindinėmis JT vaiko teisių deklaracijos nuostatomis, kuriomis vadovaujantis svarbu kuo daugiau vaikų apgyvendinti globėjų šeimose, šeimynose, kur tėvų globos netekusiems vaikams pagal galimybes būtų sukurta kuo artimesnė natūraliai šeimai aplinka. Tokią aplinką siūlo nevyriausybinės organizacijos, veikiančios pagal tarptautinės organizacijos SOS–KDI modelį, kur globotiniai gyvena šeimynose su mama-auklėtoja, vaikų kaimuose. Vaikų gyvenimo uždaro tipo globos įstaigose klausimai Lietuvos mokslininkų analizuoti įvairiapusiškai, tačiau pasigendama tyrimų, vertinančių vaikų ir mamų-auklėtojų tarpusavio santykius NVO vaikų kaimų šeimynose... [toliau žr. visą tekstą] / Every child has a right to grow in a family. However every year, due to various reasons, children get into guardianship institutions. It is a duty of the state and society to take care of these children in order to ensure the highest quality guardianship, as close to the environment of a family as the possibilities allow. Such environment is offered to children, who lost parental care, by non-governmental organisations acting under the model of the international organisation SOS – KDI, where the foster-children live in house-families with a foster mother, in special children villages. Organising the children’s life at foster home, it is very important to ensure good intercommunication between the personnel and foster-children. However so far only a few scientific researches were performed, which analyse the feelings of children, who grow in children’s villages families, and their relationships with the personnel. The objective of the Bachelor’s Thesis was to asses the intercommunication between the children residing in the children village families of NGOs and foster mothers, who work there. The research was performed at the foster families of NGO’s children villages. 98 foster-children and six foster mothers participated in the survey. Using the method of the questionnaire survey, it was researched how did children assess the care and guardianship of their foster mothers. Also, the approach of foster mothers towards their foster-children and their motivation to work... [to full text]