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MOST SIGNIFICANT CHANGE. Youth Focused Monitoring and Evaluation System. Monitoring and Evaluation. What? How?. Results Monitoring and Evaluation for program effectiveness. Impacts. Most Significant change , Satisfaction ranking , rolling baseline, financial diary and evaluations.
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MOST SIGNIFICANT CHANGE Youth Focused Monitoring and Evaluation System
Monitoring and Evaluation • What? • How?
Results Monitoring and Evaluation for program effectiveness Impacts Most Significant change , Satisfaction ranking , rolling baseline, financial diary and evaluations Outcomes Outputs Implementation, Progress/process Monitoring (Means and Strategies • Group quality tools • MIS • Satisfaction ranking Activities Inputs Key Types of M&E in YMF project
M&E for youth • Promoting true participation • Giving youth voice to define and measure their own impact • Making it fun for youth rather than making it theoretical and difficult • Baseline survey needs to be adapted to capture youth related data i.e. floating youth, youth’s income pattern, youth poverty dynamics, support to the family etc. • Adaptation is the key to measure…
Most Significant Change is… • a form of participatory monitoring and evaluation • a way to collects stories that represent meaningful and profound changes • a systematic process that analyzes and selects the “most significant” story from ones collected from the field
When is MSC an appropriate tool? Projects that are… • complex and produce diverse outcomes • has numerous organizational layers • focused on social changes that may not be tangible • participatory in ethos • designed with repeated contact between field staff and participants
Story telling… …is different from report writing!
Why is MSC useful? • Provides a richer picture of what’s happening • Encourages analysis • Helps to focus on the key impact • Uses a bottom-up approach without externally predefined outcomes • Tells us about unexpected change • Gets different perspectives of what has changed • Specify domains to reflect changes in gender equity • Self-identified by the story-tellers
Reflection Process Revise Logic
Change Domains in YMF • Quality of youth lives • Leadership, participation and social status • Sustainability of the groups as a collective force • Other changes i.e. negative change or change not captured in other domain. In your opinion… …what was the most significant… …change that took place… …in the quality of your ‘change domain` …over the last three months?
MSC cycle for YMF project Feedback to the groups
Satisfaction Ranking • PRA based tool increases high level of participation due to nature of the tool • Measures both level of knowledge and satisfaction • Youth identify the attributes by the degree of importance and level of satisfaction • The tool provides youth perspectives on actions against gaps and helps youth to do self evaluation.
SATISFACTION WITH YSL FEATURES • Attributes deemed most important to youth • Loans • Savings • FA/ CV support • Group meetings and rules • Social Fund • High level of satisfaction with key features of the model and able to save and take credit. • Some dissatisfaction (but isolated) with • Some CV’s performance • Amount of Social Fund contribution (decision making) • Lack of rules on penalties (discipline)
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