This Terms of Reference is developed for an Evaluability Assessment (EA) which aims to look at the extent to which national child care reforms in Europe and Central Asia region (ECAR) with a strong focus on de-institutionalization (DI), including in particular for children with disabilities, are evaluable and can be evaluated in a reliable and credible fashion. The overall purpose of the EA is to inform the timing of an evaluation and to improve the prospects for an evaluation producing useful results. Its subsequent objective is to determine, as systematically and objectively as possible, the present state of evaluability of the child care reforms with a focus on deinstitutionalization programme for children with disabilities, improve the evaluability of such reforms from the design, monitoring and evaluation and data point of view and suggest further actions on what type of evaluation to take place in 2022. Therefore, EA is to be conducted with the view of (i) improving the quality and usefulness of the evaluation of the national child care reform initiatives with a strong focus on deinstitutionalization, including in particular for children with disabilities and (ii) improving the quality and effectiveness of the reforms themselves.
