Prior to the start of Phase II of the Shabake programme, ITAR Consultants was mobilised to draw lessons from Phase I and to redefine the programme’s monitoring and evaluation system accordingly.
The revision of the monitoring and evaluation system had to be carried out at several levels:
- At the level of the overall program; and
- At the level of grants funding actions implemented local NGOs (60 actions funded).
The logical framework therefore had to include meta-indicators that could be both specific enough for the evaluation of the project, but also broad enough to be able to be informed through the indicators/data collected on each project in different sectors.
The needs assessment was established through a desk review of the interim and final evaluations of Phase I of the programme, as well as through a series of interviews and workshops with the project team.
The M&E and Learning Plan includes several processes for M&E, but also to offer agile learning through the facilitation of a community of practice mobilizing the 60 funded projects.
The monitoring tools offered to Expertise France have been designed to minimize the workload of the teams also responsible for monitoring donations on projects. A semi-automated Excel dashboard has been developed and delivered for the monitoring of indicators (see photos below). The end of the mission concluded with a series of trainings.
