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Results-based Climate Change Leadership. Where are we going from here?. Julius Nyangaga. Right Track Africa. Projects start with a Theory of Change. What is a Theory of Change?. Problem. Change. Intervention. Projects start with a Theory of Change. What is a Theory of Change?.
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Results-based Climate Change Leadership Where are we going from here? Julius Nyangaga Right Track Africa
Projects start with a Theory of Change What is a Theory of Change? Problem Change Intervention
Projects start with a Theory of Change What is a Theory of Change?
Projects start with a Theory of Change What is a Theory of Change? A famous ToC cartoon by Sidney Harris
Projects start with a Theory of Change What is a Theory of Change?
Projects start with a Theory of Change What is a Theory of Change? Pre-outcome A1 Pre-outcome A2 • A comprehensive description and illustration of how and why a desired change is expected to happen in a particular context. • Defining all of the necessary and sufficient conditions required to bring about a given long term outcome Outcome A Long term goal Outcome B Source: Centre of Theory of Change (Theory of Change Community)
Projects start with a Theory of Change What is a Theory of Change? Pre-outcome A1 Pre-outcome A2 Pre-outcome C2 Pre-outcome C1 Pre-outcome A11 Pre-outcome B1 Pre-outcome B2 Pre-outcome B21 Pre-outcome C11 Pre-outcome C21 Pre-outcome B22 Pre-outcome B11 Outputs for A11 Outcome A Outputs for C21 Outputs for B11 Outputs for B21 Outputs for B22 Outputs for C11 Long term goal Outcome B Outcome C
Theory of Change Determines Project Intervention Pre-outcome A1 Pre-outcome A2 Pre-outcome C2 Pre-outcome C1 Pre-outcome A11 Pre-outcome B1 Pre-outcome B2 Pre-outcome B21 Pre-outcome C21 Pre-outcome C11 Pre-outcome B11 Pre-outcome B22 Outputs for A11 Outcome A Outputs for B22 Outputs for C21 Outputs for C11 Outputs for B11 Outputs for B21 Long term goal Outcome B Outcome C
Theory of Change Determines Project Intervention What are YOUR Climate Change project goals and objectives? knowledge?
Theory of Change Determines Project Intervention What are YOUR Climate Change project goals and objectives? tools? module
Theory of Change Determines Project Intervention What are YOUR Climate Change project goals and objectives? practices?
Theory of Change Determines Project Intervention What are YOUR Climate Change project goals and objectives? systems?
The project intervention presents the target Results Framework Ann-Murray Brown... accessed at Tools4Dev http://www.tools4dev.org/resources/theory-of- change-vs-logical-framework-whats-the-difference-in-practice/
Results Framework Template to be used research training awareness forums brokering views advocacy
Interventions require effective and strategic leadership Consider the Core CC leadership requirements from the Nganga (2019) report: (Quoting Meijerink & Stiller (2013)): Political Administrative Function Dissemination Function Enabling Function Connective Function Adaptive Function
Interventions require effective and strategic leadership Recommended Leadership Skills: Based on experiences and lessons from various R&D and CC programs: System definition and promotion • Regular definition and description of the CC system being addressed or supported. • Promoting engagement and encouraging support • Internally project members see roles and value of team-work. • Externally to recruit more members, missing capacity and resources.
Interventions require effective and strategic leadership Recommended Leadership Skills: System Administration and Management • Resource (financial) budgeting and management. • Reporting to resource providers (donors) or whole platform on system progress
Interventions require effective and strategic leadership Recommended Leadership Skills: Visioning, Scoping and Strategic networking • Defining and describing the direction of aspiration from the current status. • Can be for the whole system or for specific functions or CC actors.
Interventions require effective and strategic leadership Recommended Leadership Skills: Financing, Linking, Mediation and Brokering • Resource mobilization • Stimulating and assisting processes between interacting actors. • Mediation in response to potential or actual conflict between system members • Addressing concerns • Developing trust and understanding.
Interventions require effective and strategic leadership Recommended Leadership Skills: Capacity Building, Technical backstopping • Providing technical advise. OR … Linking actors to thematic specialists. • Carrying out research and providing timely feedback • Technical themes. • Capacity in multi-stakeholder interactions, group dynamics and management
Interventions require effective and strategic leadership Recommended Leadership Skills: Advocacy and Championing • Influencing policy makers for the necessary policy reform. • Motivating stakeholders within the system and/or from those outside. • Catalyzing interactions to keep the businesses active. • Encouraging all actors to join and stay with the CC system managed.
Interventions require effective and strategic leadership Recommended Leadership Skills: Monitoring, Evaluation, Documentation and Learning • What has worked? What has not?Why or why not? • … case studies; using success stories to motivate and build support. • What should be done differently to continuously improve performance? • Lessons for innovation diffusion.
Results Framework Individual and Group Work Not just how high up the results chain (“AUDACITY vs ACCOUNTABILIY”) … But TO WHAT LEVEL? … from baseline…