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Results Journal
| Purpose: | To familiarise participants with one specific monitoring tool, the results journal For alternative b: To provide teams with a real life example of monitoring as learning (through actually doing a monitoring session for one of their initiatives) |
| Participants: | 4 to about 20 |
| Time: | about 50. min (Alternative a) about 90 min. (Alternative b) |
| Materials: | Handout "Results Journal" |
| Process: | 1. Introduce the results journal as a self-assessment tool in monitoring to participants. Go through the table together with participants. As some categories of the original results journal will be hard to fill for ongoing peacebuilding initiatives, the results journal includes some adaptions for this exercise in Italics. Explain how the results chain is used - first filled individually and then discussed in the team. All this happens on a regular basis, for instance every 3 months. Alternative a: For groups of individuals from different organisations and contexts. 2. Ask participants to think about a current peacebuilding engagement - a project that they currently engage with. Distribute the results journal template to them (see below). Participants should try to individually complete the results journal for the period of the last three months. The initiative might not have worked with the results chain. Therefore participants can write the initiative's main objectives in the cell for outcomes (see Italics in the results journal below). Give them 20 min. to fill the results journal. 3. Participants get together in pairs and exchange their results journals. They do a Q & A on the results journal in order to reach a better understanding and possibly highlight some elements that would demand more reflection. This should take about 10 min. each participant. 4. Do a feedback round in plenary, discussing the usefulness of the tool. Alternative b: For groups where several staff/representatives from one organisation are participating. 2. Ask participants to get together in their organisations in order to select a current peacebuilding engagement that they are all familiar with (work with it directly or indirectly). Distribute the results journal template to each participant (see below). Participants should first try to individually complete the results journal for the period of the last three months. As the initiative might not have worked with the results chain, participants can write the initiative's main objectives in the cell for outcomes (see Italics in the results journal below). Give 20 min. to fill the results journal. 3. One member of each group - selected by the group or facilitator before hand - receives the results journals of his fellow group members and gets the assignment to reach an overview of the answers. 4. The organisational groups now sit together in "teams" and simulate a monitoring session dealing with the selected peacebuilding initiative. The selected group member takes on the role of facilitator. The aim of this session is to review the results journals, discuss possible differences and focus on what can be learnt from this monitoring round. This includes also what lessons should be learnt and fed back into the management of the project. This session could take 60 min. (or even more). 5. Do a feedback round, discussing the usefulness of the tool and what groups have learned about their peacebuilding initiative by using the tool. |
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| Handout(s): | Results Journal |
| Source(s): | chachabooth@gmail.com |
Results Journal
| Monitoring period (Choose for instance the last 3 months.) | ||
| Contributors to this monitoring update | ||
| Vision of success in the programme: (What was your overall goal?) | ||
| Outcomes (You can here use the main objectives of your initiative.) | Indicators (How will you see achievement of objectives?) | Level of change |
| Low (L) Medium (M) High (H) LMH LMH LMH LMH | ||
| Outputs (What were very concrete achievements in the last months?) | Indicators | Level of change |
| LMH LMH LMH LMH | ||
| Description of the change (in the last 6 months): What happened? How did change happen? Why? | ||
| Who or what contributed to the change? | ||
| Sources of evidence (Where can you see that change happpened?) | ||
| Unanticipated change | ||
| Lessons/ required programme changes/reactions (What could you do better in your initiative?) | ||
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, Aug 26 2009, 3:10 AM EDT
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