Call for applications: Training on Managing for Impact (M4I),
21 September – 2 October 2009, Bloemfontein, South Africa.
Closing date: 31st July 2009
Course Details| Application form – New.
The Strengthening Managing for Impact Programme (SMIP) is calling for applications to attend a training workshop on Managing for Impact. The purpose of this workshop is to continue with developing and strengthening capacity of individual service providers and practitioners within Eastern & Southern Africa to support pro-poor projects to effectively manage toward impact. Specific objectives of the training workshop include:
- Enhancing the skills and knowledge of service providers and practitioners on what managing for impact means and how to put it into practice; and
- Identifying service providers and practitioners willing to continue to collaborate with one another and pro-poor initiatives beyond the training workshop through a managing for impact network.
This workshop will be held in Bloemfontein, South Africa from 21 September – 2 October 2009. To apply for this training workshop, please complete the application form and participant profile and email the completed form to keneilwe@khanya-aicdd.org or fax to +27 51 430 8322 no later than 31 July 2009.
Strengthening Managing for Impact Programme (SMIP) is an IFAD Funded Capacity Building Programme. Further details about the workshop are available from the link below:
April 21, 2009 at 8:20 am
I am the Head of M&E Department of my organisation; which is a USAID funded Project in Nigeria. We are implementing a value chain development project on agriculture; with objectives of increasing crop productivity, increasing sales of beneficiaries and creating new jobs epecially amongst youths.
We will like to know more about imapact assessment of projects with baseline and without baseline data- suggestion on a good approach and methodology.
Thanks,
Emmanuel,
How do we carry out a good impact asseessment with qualitative data/inforamation?
April 23, 2009 at 2:33 pm
Iam Simon Ochieng, an M&E Officer working in IFAD funded project in Kenya, namely Small Holder Horticulture Marketing Programme. I am very much interested in applying for this course, yet I cannot fill your application form because it is locked by a password. Please can you advice.
April 29, 2009 at 8:00 am
Dear Simon,
Our sincere apologies about the form. It’s not been ammended and should give you no problems. Another should have also been sent directly to your email. Please do not hesitate to let us know if you have any other problems. Many thanks & regards,
Mine Pabari
April 29, 2009 at 9:38 am
Dear Emmanuel,
Thank you for visiting the blog.
Before responding to your question it may be good to mention something on why we need baseline for impact asessement.
“Impact assessments are most often viewed as a means of judging performance by understanding changes (intended or otherwise) experienced by primary stakeholders as a result of development interventions. They can help distinguish whether a project intervention is in fact achieving its objectives, whether or not these objectives remain relevant over time, and whether or not the best action strategies have been pursued” (Estrella and Gaventa, 1997).
Thrfeore, you need base line in impact assesment, among other things, to know;
1. whether change has occured or not ( can be obtained by comparing with the baseline-to asess before and after) and
2. to know if that change has occured as a result of the intervention ( in addition to the above- with and without- collecting the infomation from control group or non-particpants). Therefore, when conducting the impact asessment you compare before and after the intervention and also you collect from project beneficiaries and non – beneficiaries. This will help you to asceratin whether change has oocured and also if that change is as a result of the intervention.
For more infomation you may also visit.
http://www.worldbank.org/ieg/nonie/guidance.html
To your second question on” How do we carry out a good impact asseessment with qualitative data/inforamation”
The question of the qualitaive infomation is determined
-To understand phenomenon about which little is yet known
-To gain new perspectives on things about which much is already known, or to gain more in-depth information that may be difficult to convey quantitatively
-Appropriate in situations where quantitative measures cannot adequately describe or interpret a situation and/or b) one needs to first identify the variables that might later be tested quantitatively
-Compatible with ‘empowerment’ objective
Thefore, more than anything the contex quantitative )
I would like you see the link below for more infomation:
You may also see the link belwo.
http://www.mande.co.uk/docs/thesis.htm
Moreover, I have also asked my collegues to reply to your email. Thrfeore, you will receive their comments soon.
Elias