Regional Workshop East Africa
18/11/2009
NGOs in these sectors will work out lists of sector-specific goals that can be suggested to community groups who intend to measure change around them. The sector disability & inclusive development particularly sees the need to intensively work on new goals and tools. Development of tools is mostly planned for the first quarter 2010. Finalised results will be shared on this website.
The NGOs from the three sectors have reflected not only on NGO-IDEAs. They have also thought about what else they have in common and what they could do together. That created a special bond.
Regional Workshop Philippines
18/11/2009
Participants worked out action plans how they will implement the NGO-IDEAs tools over the next year. They agreed on cooperation in sectors, will cooperate in training their staff on the tools and will develop sector-specific goals together.
Participants discussed a guide for Lifeline, a PRA tool revised so that a community reflects about the change brought about by development organisations, but also other factors.
Participants agreed to use this tool to reflect overall change in communities they work with.
New Impact Toolbox version online
18/11/2009
The version 1.1 of 2007 is completely revised, the tools are described in more details and in a more "generic", internationally acceptable version. Previous drafts were discussed by international experts, the international NGO-IDEAs workshop in September
2009 in Coimbatore, India, and the regional workshop East Africa in October in Mombasa, Kenya. Further feedback will be incorporated soon.
Participation Guidelines
15/10/2009
Participants at the International NGO-IDEAs Workshop in Coimbatore agreed on Sept 30 on participation guidelines. They commit themselves to involve communities in the development of impact monitoring tools, explain their purpose, use them only upon mutual agreement and seek feedback on the application of the toolbox. The tools themselves shall be used for the benefit of the people, not just for the benefit of NGOs or for reporting to funders. All NGO-IDEAs tools should lead to reflection by the communities. And communities should be empowered to use monitoring tools on their own, without help from external NGOs.
The NGO-IDEAs participation guidelines were accepted by the participants as something that will guide their action during the development and application for tools of participatory monitoring of change that has been brought about by development interventions. All NGO- IDEAs tools are designed for the empowerment of people who will take more control of their lives when they get the chance to reflect on changes they experience.
Download Participation Guidelines
Website Re-launch
28/07/2009
The new NGO-IDEAs.net is online. With a new design, the website now offers an internal area for NGO-IDEAs partners with discussion board, a download area, and contact addresses of partners involved.
Two persons per partner organisation will get access to the internal area to share their experience with participatory impact assessment and discuss issues. documents for discussion will be made available and every partner is invited to share tools and examples of their practice.
The public part of NGO-IDEAs.net will contain the newly developed version of the toolbox, many different tools for impact assessment and guidelines for implementation that will be region and sector specific. These resources will be added over time.