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Development Effectiveness
Experience sharing from the Czech National Platform for TRIALOG V strategy meeting
Vienna, Dec 4, 2012
Jana Miléřová, FoRS
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Code on Effectiveness
www.fors.cz/user_files/fors_code_on_effectiveness_en.pdf
1. Grassroots knowledge
2. Transparency and accountability
3. Partnership
4. Respect to human rights and gender equality
5. Accountability for impacts and their sustainability
Self-assessment 2012
44 % members and observers made self-assessment according to the Code in 2012
Strongest areas of indicators by members:
•Respect to Human Rights and Gender Equality
•Accountability for Impacts and their Sustainability
•Transparency and accountability
Weakest areas:
•Partnership – e.g. insufficient mutual information exchange among partners on cooperation with other stakeholders
•Some aspects of grassroots knowledge
Actions to be taken forward
What FoRS should to for members to improve the areas:
•FoRS Working groups on specific topic to experience sharing – set up general Terms of Reference and communication among WGs
•„Summer School“ from members and other stakeholders on actual issues in development and CSOs
•Further capacity building on evaluation, monitoring, participatory planning, Most Significant Change, evidence-based analysis etc.
Examples of actions in Dev. Eff.
• How to make assessment more objective?
• How to build capacities of CSOs besides workshops?
• How to enhance sharing expertise of the platform members?
• How to involve small, volunteer-based organisations, with highly limited resources?
• How to promote the guidelines beyond the platform?
• … And how to do it with minimum costs?
Development Coffee
Peer Reviews
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DevelopmentCoffee.org
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DevelopmentCoffee.org
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DevelopmentCoffee.org
Themes:•How can NGOs and companies work together on poverty reduction around the world? •What are the stereotypes in development cooperation? •How to ensure positive impacts of projects?•What are the new trends in development cooperation? (social media)
Speakers:•Leading Czech development CSOs•Business Platform for Development Cooperation•Vodafone Foundation Czech Republic or •Globalisation Monitor from Hongkong
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DevelopmentCoffee.org
Key features:•Democratic themes proposal and selection (crowdsourcing)•Use of social media, but regular meetings are essential•Different hosting organisations•Informal debate in an atmosphere of trust•Concrete stories of good / bad practice•Enhanced networking among CSOs, government officials, students, private sector
Challenges:•Ownership of the process after both co-founders left•Need for outputs for wider dissemination •Need for evaluation of outcomes
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Peer Reviews
Peer 1
Peer 2ToR
FoRS Code of Effectiveness
Self-assessment
Interested Peers
Briefing
WG1
WG2
WG3
Final workshop
& report
Peer 3
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Peer Reviews
Key features:•Concrete objectives •Based on a framework (FoRS Code on Effectiveness)•But focusing on what the organisation is good at•Voluntary (focus, peers selection)•Trusted peers with versatile background•Platform facilitating the process and networking
Challenges:•Realistic objectives•Buy-in and dedication across organisational hierarchy •Sufficient time to discuss the evidence of principles and reach set objectives.•„New“ priorities during the peer review process
Conclusions and Challenges
CSOs (and others!) are interested in sharing and
evaluating their effectiveness, provided they:
• see benefits for their work,• have a clear framework with
specific, meaningful indicators,
• own the process, • have sufficient resources to
reflect and • are systematically
supported (FoRS Working Group and Secretariat).
DevelopmentCoffee.org and
Peer Reviews• transform the FoRS Code to a
capacity building rather than repression tool,
• use the wide expertise of the FoRS membership,
• use tools that are quick, easy & cheap to set-up and run,
• use social media, but do not replace personal contacts,
• are fully driven by target groups.
Thank you for your attention!
Inka Píbilová[email protected]
Daniel [email protected]
Jana Miléřová[email protected]
