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Presentation given at IRC about the communication and monitoring aspects of the RiPPLE programme
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RiPPLE Comms M&E
Making ducks and drakes
& Measuring the effects
Overview
• Background information
• Communication
• M&E
Background information
Background information
• The RiPPLE riddle• The RiPPLE gospel• Ripples of comms and
monitoring riddles:– The liquid consortium– 10 = 1+3+3*2– And a sea of audiences
Communication
Comms: context
• 10% budget
• A team
• A local face
• A communication strategy
Comms (2): Objectives
1. Enhance learning process within/ between LPA platforms
2. Share knowledge to influence policy and implementation
3. Develop capacities for comms in the sector
Comms (3): Activities
1. Learning
2. Sharing
3. Enabling
Comms (4): results
• Good reviews
• Wide visibility
• Comms matters (they understood)
• Good backstopping? Certainly good enough for a career move!
Comms (5): challenges
• Turnover... to our neighbours• Promoting outputs• Coordinating Comms & research
Comms (6): Good ideas & lessons learnt• Thank you • Early strategic birds• The team rocks and is a rock• RiPPLE look and feel, pubs• Intranet & bulletin• Wiki’ed up• Having the coordinator in the
team
Monitoring (and learning)
M&E: context
• A logframe
• No M&E
• Starting the works (1 year later!)
• The : : accountability & learning
M&E (2): Objectives
• Monitor– LPAs– Research– Capacity– Comms
• Outputs / Outcomes (Impact)
• M & E go their way, so does R
Defined as OVIs/ examples MoVOutputs: Outputs are the tangible deliverables
(products or services) that programme activities provide directly, based on inputs (time and money).
Case studies and papers written, website published, networks established, training courses provided etc.
Measured through Logframe.
Outcomes Outcomes are understood as intermediate results from the activities that are beyond the direct control of the programme. In RiPPLE they are related to the three strategic objectives of the programme.
Changes in policy and practice, increasing cooperative attitudes between practitioners, improved transparency in financing flows to the sector.
Measured through additional tools such as outcome mapping, network analysis etc.
Impacts Impacts are understood as the indirect and longer-term results related to the overall goal of the programme.
Increased WASH coverage, and WASH facilities implemented are sustainable and affect the living conditions of the poor in the long run.
Not measured by RiPPLE.
M&E (3): Activities
• From logical to monitoring framework
• Methods• Data collection• Compilation
• Mid-term review & evaluation
M&E (4): results
• First report June 09• Good tools for LPA facilitators • Narrative power• Evidence-based
recommendations (YES)• Capacity built
M&E (5): challenges
• Turnover• Lack of support / interest
in M&E?• Critical thinking culture?• It takes 2 to tango and a lot
more to monitor
M&E (6): Good ideas & lessons learnt
• The team again• OM: Overly manageable• The method mix: Pick and choose• Ownership of M&E?• Coordination with director and
office manager;• Narratives / stories of change • The soft effect of process doc