Jindra Cekan PhD Valuing Voices at CEKAN CONSULTING LLC 2014 Simple idea Measure the sustainable impact of development projects AFTER they are completed 210 years out Ask communities what worked ID: 657057
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Valuing Voices:
Sustainable Solutions for Excellent Impact
Jindra Cekan, PhD
Valuing Voices at CEKAN CONSULTING LLC
2014Slide2
Simple ideaSlide3
Measure the sustainable impact of development projects
AFTER they are completed(2-10 years out)Slide4
Ask communities what worked
(or didn’t)Slide5
Over $1.6 trillion has been spent on international development since 2000, with almost no knowledge of long-term sustained impact after projects end much less Slide6
Details:
$1.4 trillion spent on international development by the EU since 2000$277 billion spent on development projects by USAID since 2000 $ 50 billion spent on Measurement & Evaluation during projects (3% average of total) Less than $1.6 million spent on Measurement & Evaluation 2-10 years after project (under .1%)Slide7
$100 billion dollars and
euros were spent in 2014 alone…still without knowing what sustained impacts these development projects will have. Slide8
Project Project
Launch EndMid-pointEvaluationDevelopment Project Life CycleTypical Measurement & Evaluation
1-5 years
Final Evaluation
IMPLEMENTATION
BaselineSlide9
Project Project
Launch EndMid-pointM&EDevelopment Project Life CycleValuing Voices’ Measurement & EvaluationPost
Project
M&E
(fraction)
6 mo-2 yrs
Valuing Voices
2-10 yrs
Baseline
…we must feed learning to future projects…Slide10
Valuing Voices will:
Create a methodology and technology platform for measuring long-term impact and sustainability of development interventions Maintain and share learning from nationally-based databases for globally sustainable design Feed back self-sustainability learning to new projects coming on… increasing successSlide11
The Valuing Voices platform will create a database of self-sustained outcomes and impacts (activities communities self-sustained) across a range of development projects, launching food security/ livelihoods firstSlide12
Data from the Valuing Voices platform will
benefit individual project implementers and national counterpartsHelping them understand how they can improve project design and delivery, learn from unexpected results and help communities become free of foreign aidSlide13
The way in which data is collected (Empowerment Evaluation, Outcome Harvesting, Appreciative Inquiry) will empower communities to share their strengths
National evaluators will lead, local policymakers will learn as will we foreigners. It puts development back where it belongs, in the hands of the countries themselves.Slide14
Data from the Valuing Voices platform will
benefit project funders (foreign donors) and national governmentsHelping them understand where their limited resources can best be deployed, and building national capacity to support communities themselvesSlide15
Don’t we want to do the
very best work that helps us ‘graduate’ participants completely?Don’t we want to see the sustained Return on Investment – for our funds, for the participants themselves?The time is now.www.ValuingVoices.com