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Purpose:To refine and select the best and most useful indicators for a project or programme
Participants:4-8, 9
Participants should be made up of all or key members of the team working with the project, management should ideally also be included.

Time: At least 2hrs, more time might be necessary (depending on the nature of the programme).

Materials:Indicator tables (see here) for the results chain
Handout "Developing indicators"
Flipcharts
Marker pens
Notebooks and pens
Process:1. If necessary, remind participants of the achievements in indicator development so far. Distribute the indicator tables that list all ideas for indicators from the "How will we see that the results are obtained?" activity. The goal for this session is to refine the indicators and select the best of them - according to criteria for good indicators.

2. Ask participants to repeat individually what criteria for good indicators are (with the help of the handout "Developing indicators"). After some minutes, collect criteria on a flipchart in plenary.

3. Now it is time to look at the indicator tables, keeping these criteria in mind. Take one table at a time and in a facilitated group process, think about such questions as:
  • Do the indicators listed fulfill the criterias for good indicators? Are they good lenses to see change happening in project/programme reality?
  • Is there a need to refine some of the indicators?
  • Are some more useful than others? Which ones are the best?
In order to select the best, a voting process can be used after the group discussion, where points from 1 to 5 have to be given to indicators (1 - not useful at all, 2 - only useful to a certain extent, 3 - neutral, 4 - quite useful, 5 - very useful). Then for instance only the indicators with the three highest scores are selected.

When doing this, it would be good to already reflect now, which forms of data collection could be used to measure the indicators selected.

4. Continue this process for all results. Make sure that there are sufficient breaks in between.

Note:

Handout(s): Indicator tables (see here) for the results chain
"Developing indicators"

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