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Monitoring, evaluation,reporting and improvement

(MERI): ‘people’ perspectives

Keys for Success with the IWRM Training, Hoi An, Vietnam, 18-26 February 2009

By Dr Peter Oliver, Senior Lecturer (Education and Training

(International WaterCentre)



Outline

• What are collaborations and partnerships?

• When should we collaborate or partner?

•

Qualitative and quantitative approaches tomonitoring and evaluation

• Monitoring and evaluating collaboration

•

Most significant change approach• The importance of stories and how they can

lead to improvement



We are all the result of a partnership – however brief !

But we can

still want

things done

our way, or

not at all!



Partnerships and marriage

In Australia -

• 45% of first marriages end in divorce

• 65% of second marriages

• 75% of third marriages

• How can we make partnerships workmore effectively?



Task 1

• Working individually, write down as many

examples as you can of when you have

worked collaboratively or in partnership with

others



Can you give love a number?



Qualitative and quantitative approaches to

monitoring and evaluation – it’s important to

recognise the benefits of both







Task 2

• Can you think of a time when you have

worked collaboratively and it didn’t achieve

the outcome you wanted?

• Why?







DefinitionalcharacteristicsEffectiveness

Shared power

and responsibility

ContextcharacteristicContext is

appropriate

RelationshipcharacteristicsGood social capital

building processes

Good communication

Good processes for

knowledge acquisition,

information exchange and

social learning

Shared relationship values

Shared intent

Shared action orientationand risk-taking

Participantcharacteristics

High levels of motivation

Realistic

expectations

‘Outsider’

perceptioncharacteristic(Etic)Perceived positively

by outsiders

Characteristicsof an effectivepartnership



Definitional

Context Relationship

Participant

‘Outsider

perception’

characteristic

(Etic)

Coordinator viewpoint (Emic) –

Positive factors

Good communicator

Reflective practitioner

Appropriate context, technical

and group process knowledge

and skills

Appropriate time, tenure and

enthusiasm

Develop and sustain personal

relationships with participants

Enjoying and skilled at ‘grey-

area’ work, changing

environments

NRM group viewpoint (Emic) – Positive factors

Range and diversity of participants

Appropriate and effective group processes

Continuity of adequate funding and resources

Continuity of assistance of a skilled, enthusiastic

coordinator

Appropriate administration and information management

systemsBuilding social capital external to the group

Participant viewpoint

(Emic) – Positive

factors

High levels of

motivation in the ‘seed’

stage of the relationship

Nurturing positive

personal relationships

Factorsaffectingpartnership

effectiveness



Our brains are ‘hard-wired’ for

stories• Must make intuitive sense

to the listener

• Must be supported by

evidence

• Must be linked to and be

able to be explained by

relevant theory

• Should give rise to policy

recommendations that

can be implemented to

lead to improvement

(Woolcock, 2000, pers

com)



Most Significant Change Approach

• Qualitative

• Based on stories of ‘significant’ change

•

Developed by Davies (1996) in Bangladesh• Outcomes monitoring tool

• Not an indicator-based approach

• Not to be used stand-alone• http://www.mande.co.uk/docs/MSCGuide.pdf

(look for Davies and Dart – Handbook

available at this address)

http://www.mande.co.uk/docs/MSCGuide.pdf

http://www.mande.co.uk/docs/MSCGuide.pdf



Task 3

• Can you think of ways you might combine

qualitative and quantitative approaches to

monitoring and evaluation for the VGTB

Basin?

• What might be the benefits and difficulties of

doing this?

• What are the implications of this for your own

practice?

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