Global Team MeetingAll Staff Briefing

Sarah Degnan KambouNovember 4, 2010

Global Team Meeting 2010

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Overview

1. Goals & objectives

2. Facts, figures & implications

3. The essentials: Synergies, partners & performance

4. Next steps

Overview

1. Goals & objectives

2. Facts, figures & implications

3. The essentials: Synergies, partners & performance

4. Next steps

Our goals & objectives for GTM were straightforward, but ambitious….

1. Reconnect & share ideas

2. Explore in greater depth planks of the platform

3. Develop 3 year goals for each portfolio:

GVR

STIGMA

Gender & HIV

ECON

Population

ARO

The 2011-2014 strategic plan will:

• Cover a 3 year time frame

• Focus on institutional impact

• Four strategic goals: research & programs; communications & advocacy; operations; UR fundraising

• Framework and format of the last plan

• Relevant VPs will lead development of struts

3 year goals ofeach portfolio

Objectives reflect elements of five planks

in new platform

Research & Programs

How to raise visibility and impact of

research findings?

How should programsIntersect with

advocacy?

What marketing support is needed ?

Communications & Advocacy

What global support services are necessary

to ensure seamlessoperations?

What resources willbe required for success?

What infrastructure needs to be in place?

Operations

What tactics and

relationships need to be built to develop a

reliable pool of unrestricted

funds?

UR Fundraising

….and designed to set up our strategic planning exercise.

Overview

1. Goals & objectives

2. Facts, figures & implications

3. The essentials: Synergies, partners & performance

4. Next steps

PROGRAM OF RESEARCH

The platform

STRONGER FOCUS ON PARTNERS

GLOBAL PRESENCE

SITES FOR INTENSIVE LEARNING & ACTION

RESEARCH = PROCESS OF SOCIAL CHANGE

Ties learningto impact

Every piece of work we undertake has to contribute to our mission, be guided by portfolio focus, explore the constraints women & girls face, and offer solutions to improve their lives

We will be selective about whom we work with, deepening relation-ships that are beneficial in terms of influence, impact & learning

Mumbai is the model. We want to identify 2 other locations and begin to build a pipeline of work that will allow us to commit to those communities

We’ll deepen our existing footprint so that our current investments are consoli-dated before developingmore markets

At ICRW, research is pre-dominantly a participatory process, conducted in close collaboration with people and communities, seeking to build understanding and an evidence base to address barriers to gender equality and social and economic development.

Maximizes the contribution of each portfolio

Builds on our history

Deepens our rootsIn communities

Allows us to catch our breath

Significant change in ICRW’s By-laws

Approved by the Board of Directors on October 29, 2010:

Article III Purposes

In furtherance of these purposes, the Corporation will perform the following functions relating primarily to improving the productivity and incomes of poor women and otherwise broadening women’s opportunities worldwide: development assistance, including technical assistance in fields such as agriculture, nutrition, education and training, small enterprise development, and housing, among others; policy research that investigates women’s participation in national development; and public education that improves the understanding of women’s contribution to development.

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FY2005-FY2010

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FY2005 FY 2006 FY 2007 FY 2008 FY 2009 FY 2010 FY 2011

Program Unrestricted G&A

ARO Econ GVR

Gender & HIV

RI2 Stigma

Current projects by regional office/portfolio and donor type

A large proportion of our total portfolio consist of projects less than $50k

3 4 %

3 4 %

2 9 %

2 9 %

3 9 %

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3 4 %

1 2 %

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LESS THAN 50k 50=> & <100k 100=> & <200K 200K=> & <500K 500K=> & <1M

Project Size Trends

This needs to be examined

•Create & implement better

solutions

•Mobilize more resources

•Wield power & influence

•Broadcast problems, options,

& solutions

•Develop better knowledge &

evidence

•Support ICRW

• Effective, path breaking

interventions

•Consolidated grassroots

strength/pressure for change

•Increased political & social will & commitment

•More money

•Knowledge or paradigm shift in the

field

•Flourishing ICRW

ICRW produces,

mobilizes, and channels

knowledge, information, and ideas to make gender

and development efforts more

effective

•Implementers, entrepreneurs

•Activists, civil society,

advocates,champions

•Women, men communities

•Funders,influentials,

private sector

•Governments,policymakers,

bilaterals,multilaterals

•Researchers,evaluators

What We DoFor

(and with)Whom

What They/We Do

Leading to Outcome

Who We AreAchieving Final Goal

Improvements to women’s wellbeing,

empowerment, gender

equality, and poverty

reduction

Direct Impact Mostly Indirect Impact

•Provide tools, TA, capacity building

•Provide strategy, advice, analysis

•Design & develop programs

• Generate findings, results, evidence

•Disseminate, convene,

communicate

• Participate in networks,

partnerships

•Sustain and build ICRW

Modified “theory of change”/Logic Model

Was itsuccessful?How can we do it better?(Evaluation)

How to scale up intervention?

(dissemination,advocacy)

what are the key problems?What are risk factors?

(Critical issues analysis)

Possible solutions?How will we measure

success?(Program design)

How is the work going?Are we reaching our goals?

(monitoring)

Research and action are part of the same process

Transformations in Gender Relations:(shifts in gendered institutions and norms)

•Societal shifts in control of sexuality and reproduction •Changes in the labor force structure, economic systems•Shifts in marriage family functions, roles, power relations

•Changes in political systems

Women’s Empowerment:(agency on strategic life choices)•Self-confidence & self-efficacy

•Access to and control over household resources & life events

•Access to employment and income generation opportunities

Well-Being:(welfare outcomes)•Health, nutrition, income, life span

Measuring our impact

BENEFITS TO WOMEN

Transformations in Gender Relations:(shifts in gendered institutions and norms)

Societal shifts in control of sexuality and reproduction Changes in the labor force structure, economic systemsShifts in marriage family functions, roles, power relations

Changes in political systems

Women’s Empowerment:(agency on strategic life choices)

Self-confidence & self-efficacyAccess to and control over household

resources & life eventsAccess to employment and

income generation opportunities

Well-Being:(welfare outcomes)

health, nutrition,income,life span

BENEFITS TO WOMEN

Mission?

Institutional Impact?

Thematic Impact?

An ecological framework for understandingand achieving impact

IndividualRelationship

CommunitySociety

“Less is more.”

Project Activities

Non project Activities

ICRW’s projects and activities are housed within diamonds; streams of work emerge as cross-institutional themes.

Project Activities

Non project Activities

To achieve institutional impact, we need to consolidate our program of research, focusing resources on essential research and advocacy that will advance ICRW’s mission.

Overview

1. Goals & objectives

2. Facts, figures & implications

3. The essentials: Synergies, partners & performance

4. Next steps

Addressing how to increase intra-institutional synergies

• Synergies between programs and operations

• Synergies between programs and ERG

• Synergies among portfolios and regional programs

Partners are critical to ICRW’s work, however the organization lacks a coherent and consistent approach for managing partnerships

Most partnerships to date are transactional, focused on specific

project needs

• Most partnerships with funders are driven by financial realities• Most partnerships with implementing organizations are focused

on specific deliverables essential to impact• There are some examples of broadening the relationship into

other avenues of impact (e.g. access to decision makers and influencers) that offer lessons on how ICRW can more proactively leverage its relationships with funders to achieve transformational change

The word partnership means many different things to different

people throughout ICRW

• For some partnership = funder, for others partnership = sub contractor to conduct research and for still others partnership = like-minded org with shared mission

• A common vocabulary will go a long way towards creating a more coherent view of how to better cultivate partnerships

ICRW has some nascent tools that could be the base infrastructure for a more proactive approach to

partnerships

• Portfolio strategies specify critical partnerships• Project database updates are improving the quality of

information about partners• Recently established Donor Liaison function creates more formal

roles and ownership for relationships with critical funders• This working group has created a forum for identifying options

that allows the conversation about partnerships to be organization-wide

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Portfolio: Gender & HIV

Main Objective: The mission of the Gender and HIV Portfolio is to reduce the spread of HIV and mitigate the epidemic’s impact among women and girls in low and middle-income countries.

Specific objective 1 (theme): Integrating gender into current HIV programs and policies

Outcomes Indicator Inputs Risks/assumptions

1) Conduct diagnostic analyses of HIV programs, policies, funding strategies and outcomes to assess their responsiveness to the needs of women and girls.

Completion of 5 country “audits” of UNICEF programs in high HIV prevalence countries to diagnose extent to which they are gender aware/responsive

Depth/breadth of staff expertise

ICRW reputation—UNICEF came to us, could have hired a consultant but saw our institution as a resource

Ability to hire good consultants in Southern Africa

“Research for hire?” Do we want to do more of this sort of thing?

2) Create and disseminate a knowledge base of promising practices to help programmers and funders understand how to operationally integrate gender into HIV programs

Completion and dissemination of compendium and case studies of HIV programs in sub-Saharan Africa that use two or more “gender strategies.”

Fickleness of USG funding—commissioned under Bush admin, completed under Obama. Dissemination, mobilization of knowledge stalled from OGAC

3) Strengthen the capacity of donors, governments and civil society to integrate gender into existing funding portfolios, guidelines, policies and programs

Conduct a Webinar for UNICEF country staff on how to diagnose gender responsiveness in HIV programs for children and better integrate gender into existing programs

Impact contingent on how well UNICEF follows through—possibility of more work with them.

We made a strong start down the path!

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Strategic Planning

Overview

1. Goals & objectives

2. Facts, figures & implications

3. The essentials: Synergies, partners & performance

4. Next steps

Next Steps• Finalize our “theory of change”• Advance our institutional M&E• Tackle ‘less is more’ proactively • Produce and apply project

budgeting guidelines• Organize task groups for

strategic planning process• Draft program & research strut

for Strategic Plan• Move forward with building the

struts of the Strategic Plan:– Comms/Advocacy– Operations– Unrestricted Fundraising

• Take partnership discussion to the diamonds

• Engage staff in SILA conversation during next Global All Staff Video Conference

APPENDIX

ARO13%

GVR53%

Stigma20%

RI27%

G&HIV0%

ECON7%

ECON34%

G&HIV33%

RI233%

ARO0%

GVR0%

Stigma0%

FY2010 awards less than $50k(by portfolio)

FY2010 awards $50-100k(by portfolio)

A few portfolios are “living” on small budgets