Haiti Justice Sector Strengthening Program Monitoring, Evaluation, and Learning Plan

The project is helping to professionalize, make independent, and efficient the Haitian justice sector, advancing core justice system strengthening while building the foundations of judicial reform, fostering political support, and addressing relevant justice issues in the short to medium term. To accomplish this, JSSP has four overarching objectives: (1) improving the legal, policy, and regulatory framework, (2) strengthening the judiciary as an independent, credible, and effective authority, (3) improving access to justice and protection of rights, and (4) strengthening civil society constituencies for reform. The project is targeting the following jurisdictions: Port-au-Prince, Croix-des-Bouquets, Saint-Marc, Cap-Haitien, and Fort-Liberte, with the Case Management Information System (CMIS) being expanded to 6 other jurisdictions in FY2019 and FY2020. The project's logic is demonstrated through its results framework, which directly links the project goal with the USG's foreign assistance objective of governing justly and democratically. The results framework shows the logical, causal relationships between the different levels of anticipated results. The project's development hypothesis is that if the enabling environment for justice is modernized and improved, justice sector institutions are strengthened, pathways to justice services for protection of human rights are expanded, and civil society groups can mobilize constituencies for reform, then Haitian citizens will be more able to access quality justice services. Effective monitoring, evaluation, and learning (MEL) requires that project results and indicators be set early and tracked and analyzed consistently to determine whether goals are being met and, if not, to provide sufficient information to understand why and correct the course of action. The JSSP team will continue to use data collected to determine whether the project is meeting its performance requirements, inform decision-making, and improve management and implementation. The MEL plan describes JSSP's methodology for monitoring and evaluation and will be used to plan and manage the collection of performance data and measure the success of the project in expanding Haitian citizens' access to quality justice services. The performance indicator tracking table (PITT) includes performance indicators, targets, data sources and collection methods, frequency of data collection, and disaggregation. The MEL plan results will be used to regularly update and collaborate with relevant stakeholders, including USAID, to analyze change and learn from data and adapt future activities to ensure achievement of results. Following the contract modification AID-521-TO-16-00005-07 in August 2019, the following changes were made to the MEL plan: Indicator 1 was deleted and replaced by "Number of new penal code that is adopted," targets for FY2020 and FY2021 were reduced from 2 to 1, and some PIRS were modified to better define the indicators, the plan for data collection and data quality issues. Some FY2020 and FY2021 targets were revised following the results achieved in FY2019, the context of implementation, and the critical assumptions of FY2020. In accordance with the USAID/JSSP Mutual Accountability strategy, local stakeholders should be more committed and take greater ownership of the activities as the program goes by, thus JSSP involvement and some indicator targets are decreasing in FY20 and FY21. The Deputy Chief of Party, Mr. Jacques Miguel Sanon, has the responsibility for the implementation of the MEL plan and will continue to supervise the project's MEL activities. The MEL staff structure includes the Deputy Chief of Party, who is responsible for the implementation of the MEL plan, and other staff members who will assist in the collection and analysis of data. The MEL plan will be used to regularly update and collaborate with relevant stakeholders, including USAID, to analyze change and learn from data and adapt future activities to ensure achievement of results.