Back to Basics: Everything You Wanted to Know About Managing for Development Results

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Permalink Reply by Hannah J Cooper on October 28, 2009 at 2:24pm

Dear Colleagues,

I wanted to keep you posted on the discussion that Nuha and I have been having on developing an M&E framework for her voters' education project. If you have any input and thoughts, please reply to the ediscussion! We thought it would be interesting to share the process with you! (Please note that I have removed references to maintain privacy, etc).

"Dear Hannah,

As a response to your questions, I understood that you need to know the answers in regard to the whole advisory program going away from focusing only on the voters education. I will write the question followed by its respective answer then I make sure I covered your inquiries

1. How long this project is?
The CSOs advisory office was established in the late 80ies and early 90ties... the clear concept for capacity development has been worked out in 2008 after I joined the project.

2. What kind or resources we are looking for?
Our program provides small grants to support capacity development activities, we give around 7.500 US$ to 15.000 US$ per organization. We do annual planning for the project, currently we have 11 partners in Khartoum, so our annual expenditure for the project varies between 110.000 US$ to 150.000 US$ per year. In the Northern part of Sudan we have 2 offices, means double what I wrote to cover both. One office can be run by 2 local experts so in the other part of Sudan we have 4 local experts (3 other in a addition to me) but we used to have an international counterparts one in Khartoum and one in El Obied but they left now.

3. The ultimate goal of the project
You have explained the impact we are expecting, but we have some outcome indicators that we examine by the end of every support period:

Indicator 1:
Financial sustainability is increased for the partners of the CSOs advisory by the end of support period
This indicator means: the organizations has better access to donors through proposals and requests, are accountable, improved skills in financial management, gained trust and apply better networking and skills. these indicator is verified upon achieving the subsequent ones

Indicator 2:
Each one of the partners of the CSOs advisory office are enabled to develop, implement and maintain systems for: financial and knowledge management, M&E, inventory and filing systems by the end of support period

Indicator 3:
Partners of the CSOs advisory office Improved communication and networking with donors and other organizations through improved language and computer skills

Indicator 4:
Partners of the CSOs advisory office have clear plans for the phasing out from the support provided by the CSOs advisory office through increased communication with donors and internal resource mobilization, and this should be as an outcome for the support provided by the CSOs advisory office

4. How many beneficiaries?
in Khartoum we have the average of 11 beneficiaries per year, although we receive many requests reached to more than 20 per year but we have to consider the capacity of the staff verses the expected services and its quality

5. Who is involved in the implementation?

A wide range of orgnaizations.


Regards,

Nuha"

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Permalink Reply by neo matsena on October 30, 2009 at 6:52am

this will be quite helpful, we are in a process of developing an M&E framework and we wait in anticipation for what will be discussed on the matter

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Permalink Reply by Hannah J Cooper on November 6, 2009 at 1:12pm

Dear Colleagues,

We have reviewed the main components of Managing for Development Results. We have explored the origins of the concepts, definitions of key terms, how to develop a results chain, and an M&E Framework. Our next ediscussion will focus on the software of Managing for Results: how to be a change agent in your organization – what you as an individual can do to bring about a results mindset in your organization; how can we move from building individual to institutional capacity for Results Management.

This new ediscussion will be launched on Monday, November 9th. In the interim I am going to leave you with this model of a Results Framework that I use for developing my projects - which you may find useful for your own work.

If you have any additional questions or comments please feel free to email me at hjcooper12@gmail.com

Thank you all for your incredible comments, feedback, and input throughout this discussion!

See you online again on Monday.

Many thanks and kind regards,

Hannah

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Permalink Reply by kiven matiza on November 9, 2009 at 12:46am

Its a pleasure having it. looking forward to great things out it. thanks.

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Permalink Reply by Bimerew Alemu on November 9, 2009 at 6:00am

Dear friends

My greetings

In the first place I want to forward my appreciation that this important topic, which Managing for Development Results (MfDR) members have earlier discussed is repeated. I suppose these discussions have been designed having the community members in mind. This means about participatory development planning. We need to identify the role and problems; then comes objective analysis that precedes program formulation and selection based on criteria. The implementation and monitoring and evaluation follow the logical flow. So now we are able to design the goal, purpose, outputs/results and inputs/activities. On the other hand performance indicators to measure different targets at different levels and at different time and location are accordingly designed.

Best regards

Bimerew Alemu

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