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Scaling Up Family Planning Programme VFM analysis

Zambia

The Project

The Scaling Up Family Planning Programme in Zambia has been running since 2012. It was successful in giving 300,000 women and girls access to family planning (50% more than the original target), with poor rural women making up more than 70% of beneficiaries. A costed extension to the end of 2018 was agreed in 2016. The overall objective of the programme is to improve reproductive health through providing women with access to family planning. The focus of the costed extension (SUFP II) is to enable the adaptation of the SUFP model and transition to full government management of the programme at all levels, based on lessons learned to date. This means the project has shifted from a service delivery programme, whereby SUFP directly conducted activities to increase access to FP services, to a capacity development and systems strengthening programme.

LAMP was contracted and worked closely with the programme team to:

  • Apply SUFP VFM framework to a reporting system, which aligns with existing processes as far as possible, for example, annual work plans, and operational performance indicators from M&E logframe and financial inputs from financial management system.
  • Generate, verify and analyse year-11 VFM indicators and results.
  • Review costs per output indicators, taking into consideration long term discounted results.
  • Generate a VFM report which will cover the first year of SUFP II.
  • Compare results to baseline surveys taken from SUFP phase 1, year 4 where applicable and appropriate.

 

Beyond that, LAMP worked closely with the programme team to:

  • Prepare a VfM report for the first year of the 2nd phase of the programme
  • Revise and update the VfM framework reflecting the evolution of the programme from service delivery to systems strengthening
  • Make recommendations for further VfM improvements to the programme
© Arne Hoel / World Bank

Impact

  • The team was able to make the most out of existing programme data on training to generate new insights to improve VFM

Client Testimonial

  • Lamp Development provided expertise to help shape our VFM Approach. They worked in a collaborative style, built a strong working relationship with staff and produced practical outputs which is exactly what we asked for. The outputs have already been used by our Project Managers to improve how we report VfM within on-going projects and words have also been included to increase our VfM scoring within bids. Thanks for all the help!

    - Practice Lead, Governance and State Building, Crown Agents

  • We worked with LAMP for an evaluation of an adolescent suicide prevention project in Kazakhstan. LAMP were very professional in defining the scope of the cost-effectiveness stream of work, in dealing with the client, and in delivering within a quick time-frame when the data did arrive! We would work with them again. 

    - Health Team Leader, Itad

  • The framework was very well received by the team. The engagement was carried out in a planned, consultative and thorough manner.  LAMP’s communication style, interaction with partners, response timeliness are all excellent.

    - Solar Nigeria Programme (SNP)

  • LAMP’s project objectives were achieved, and we received positive feedback from DFID on the final output. The report led to some interesting discussions with DFID and between partners. The number-crunching and the organization of data was excellent. I think we worked very well together. Jennifer and Susie were always prompt and responsive.

    - Senior manager – M&E, KEEP

  • The analysis LAMP made on the case study was very useful for the implementing partners and for users of the report to see the impact of the interventions in monetary and statistical terms. The benefits of both interventions were clearly seen. LAMP were very proactive in data collection and were flexible with regards to challenges in obtaining required data; they were quick to come up with alternative methods to capture data and were able to make use of the limited data available.

    - Crown Agents

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