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What does success look like in a complex programme? Lessons from the Break Free! End-Term Evaluation
How do we assess whether a programme has contributed to meaningful change when outcomes are shaped by multiple actors and contextual factors?
This was one of the questions explored through the Break Free! (BF!) End-Term Evaluation (ETE), commissioned by Plan International Netherlands and conducted by hera across nine countries—Burkina Faso, Ethiopia, Kenya, Malawi, Mali, Mozambique, Niger, Sudan and Zambia—as well as at regional level.
Strengthening access to reproductive health commodities: hera’s evaluation of the Best Practices Grant
From 2020 to 2025, the Clinton Health Access Initiative (CHAI), with funding from the UK’s Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office (FCDO), led a programme entitled “Establishing Best Practices for Government-Led Product Introductions” (referred to as the Best Practices Grant)—an ambitious £40 million initiative aimed at improving access to Reproductive Health (RH) commodities across several low- and middle-income countries.
hera was contracted by CHAI to conduct the final external evaluation of the BPG, with a mandate to capture lessons, assess results, and generate insights to inform both the FCDO’s final Programme Completion Review and future investments in RH market shaping.
Local production of therapeutic and supplementary food in Zambia
Market assessment of local production of ready to use therapeutic food (RUTF) and ready to use supplementary food (RUSF)
Gender, HIV and Youth Mainstreaming Strategy of the Seed Knowledge Initiative (SKI)
SKI is comprised of 16 partner organisations in Malawi, Zambia, Zimbabwe and South Africa with the aim of improving farmer-led seed knowledge systems and helping smallholder farmers to become more seed, food and nutritionally secure.
SADC Feasibility Study on Regional Manufacturing of Medicines and Health Commodities
Assess the feasibility of the local production of essential medicines especially those related to the three communicable diseases, namely HIV and AIDS, TB and Malaria as well as the production of health commodities for the three diseases.