McGovern-Dole food for education project, “learning for life” in Guatemala : midterm evaluation [FY 2016]

The project promotes a school feeding program with commodities donated by USDA to complement those purchased with funds from the Ministry of Education of Guatemala. Also, the project promotes the implementation of two literacy methodologies: Jardín de Letras (Kotz"i"j tz’ib" in K"iche" language) to teach reading and writing in both K"iche" and Spanish languages, and Kemom Ch"ab"al, applied throughout primary school (first through sixth grades) to strengthen reading comprehension skills in both languages. The purpose of this midterm evaluation is to assess the progress towards the project goals and to establish a midterm point of comparison between the baseline evaluation (FY 2018) and the final evaluation (FY 2021), covering the first three years of the implementation of phase two of the project. This report answers 12 research questions related to the relevance, efficiency, effectiveness, impact and sustainability of the project, and measures 11 outcome indicators, comparing them to the baseline measurements and midterm goals.