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Engendering Change Mid-Term Learning Review

This report summarizes the mid-term learning review of the Engendering Change Program, a five-year program focused on promoting women's rights and reducing gender inequality. The review evaluates the program's capacity building model and explores how stronger, more gender-just organizations can achieve better programming. The findings from the review have been used to adjust and adapt the program's capacity building approach and improve monitoring and evaluation processes.

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Engendering Change Mid-Term Learning Review

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  1. Engendering Change Mid-Term Learning Review Laura Haylock Kaia Ambrose October 2012

  2. ENGENDERINGCHANGE PROGRAM • A five year program (2009-2014) co-funded with CIDA • Civil society actors are key agents of change • Works with diverse partnership portfolio—36 partners • Ultimate outcome: Women will actively advance their rights, improve their status and reduce gender inequality.

  3. ENGENDERING CHANGE PROGRAM • Based on a Theory of Change: • Partners can become more effective agents of social change at the beneficiary ‘societal’ level when their internal organizational structures, policies, procedures and programming are also more democratic and gender just

  4. COMPLEXITY IN THE ENGENDERING CHANGE PROGRAM

  5. ENGENDERING CHANGE MONITORING AND EVALUATION SYSTEM • Learning system from a feminist lens • Utilization focused • Developmental evaluation, fluid system that is building on the each of the evaluative steps

  6. MID-TERM LEARNING REVIEW • Formative evaluation with partner learning at the centre • Review carried out by Kaia Ambrose, Kevin Kelpin and Terry Smutylo with support of Carol Miller and Laura Haylock Oxfam staff (internal-external combination) • Document review, three experiential learning workshops • Participants from 30 partner organizations.

  7. Guiding Questions: Is our model of Capacity Building effective in the program? If so (not), how and why? What do strong, effective and gender just organizations look like? C. How do stronger, more gender-just organizations do better, more effective programming? • Purpose: • Produce strong and quality data that will provide sufficient evidence to assess the Engendering Change program; • Support and strengthen partners’ ability to identify and monitor changes in organizational capacity on gender equality and women’s rights; • Create an action-oriented, participatory monitoring and evaluation space for partners.

  8. METHODOLOGICAL SYNTHESIS

  9. CONCEPTS USED FROM OUTCOME MAPPING

  10. STEPS USED FROM OUTCOME MAPPING

  11. STORIES OF SIGNIFICANT CHANGE • Gathered in a workshop journal • 94 stories - internal significant change • 83 - societal significant change

  12. 1 Current organizational mission linked to Women’s Rights 6 Identification of challenges and solutions in organizational capacities 3 Actors and Factors that contributed to change 2 Significant change stories related To our partners‘ beneficiaries 5 Ideal organizational mission (women’s rights ) Transformative Leadership 4 Significant change stories in our partners’ internal organizational capacities Internal Processes and Structures Program Design (advocacy and campaigns) External Relations

  13. USE OF FINDINGS FROM THE REVIEW • Integrated use of guiding questions in journals to on-going monitoring of program • Partners using certain techniques for their own purposes • Adjusted and adapted our model of capacity building and supported tool based on findings • Critical enablers as broader indicators for the program

  14. LEARNING FROM THE PROCESS

  15. Report publically available in Spanish and English:http://www.oxfam.ca/ec-mid-term-evaluation

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