Description
The proposal implied that maternal and child health are influenced by the DOH's activities as well as external factors (e.g. socio-economic conditions). It also indicated that the Department's health programme w.r.t. maternal & child health would be assessed against the WHO "health system building blocks", implying the theory that if
a health system complies with these WHO building blocks, it will have the desired health outcomes. From this it would be possible to construct a theory of change, but it was not stated as such explicitly in the evaluation and it is possible that stakeholders did not fully agree on the theory of change when the evaluation commenced.