Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR)
Posted on 10/12/2024
Dear Hezekiah,
Thank you for the feedback and follow up questions.
Since the project's interventions focus more on influencing planning than on direct implementation, my pervious explanation (engaged stakeholders in participatory processes and fostered strong multi-stakeholder collaborations for co-designing) are essential to ensure that the approach has a real impact. While we have not yet conducted an independent evaluation for this project, the stories of change have helped us self-assess the project's impact to some extent. Stories of Change (SoC) document successful practices and challenges as a reference for replication in other contexts, while supporting evidence-based evaluation of strategy effectiveness. (will be published soon)
The metrics established to track progress include: (1) process monitoring to track the accomplishment of output-level targets, (2) measurement of progress indicators for outcome-level targets, and (3) Stories of Change to describe the project's impact on individual stakeholders or institutions.
I would expect an evaluator assessing participatory processes and stakeholder collaboration to pay attention to representation and inclusiveness of all groups, including the vulnerable, ensuring participation is substantive with meaningful input, transparency and fairness, synergies to align goals, and collaborative outcomes that reflect shared consensus in the form of outputs or action plans.
RE: Evaluating Scaling Efforts: Measuring What Matters
Indonesia
Monica Azzahra
MELIA Specialist
Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR)
Posted on 10/12/2024
Dear Hezekiah,
Thank you for the feedback and follow up questions.
Since the project's interventions focus more on influencing planning than on direct implementation, my pervious explanation (engaged stakeholders in participatory processes and fostered strong multi-stakeholder collaborations for co-designing) are essential to ensure that the approach has a real impact. While we have not yet conducted an independent evaluation for this project, the stories of change have helped us self-assess the project's impact to some extent. Stories of Change (SoC) document successful practices and challenges as a reference for replication in other contexts, while supporting evidence-based evaluation of strategy effectiveness. (will be published soon)
The metrics established to track progress include: (1) process monitoring to track the accomplishment of output-level targets, (2) measurement of progress indicators for outcome-level targets, and (3) Stories of Change to describe the project's impact on individual stakeholders or institutions.
I would expect an evaluator assessing participatory processes and stakeholder collaboration to pay attention to representation and inclusiveness of all groups, including the vulnerable, ensuring participation is substantive with meaningful input, transparency and fairness, synergies to align goals, and collaborative outcomes that reflect shared consensus in the form of outputs or action plans.
Anyone who would like to have a look at the projects outputs and our knowledge products can access them through the following link: https://www.cifor-icraf.org/project/scaling-JA-palmoil/#home