Evolving a Standard Schedule for the Evaluation of the Preschool Feeding Programmes

Evaluation of feeding programmes is indispensable to obtain information about how the programmes are functioning with respect to achieving their goals. Devadas and Mohan Ram recommend bulit-in evaluation system with appropriate guidelines for the measurement of the outcomes of the ongoing feeding programmes. Systematic evaluation of any feeding programme operating in thousands of centers calls for a standard schedule using which it should be possible to categories the performance of the centers as 'good' , 'very good' or 'poor'. The criteria evolved and the scores arrived for the criteria for the evaluation of the feeding programmes are presented in this paper.