CSRBox
Social Impact Management Trainings
Partner/Client
CSRBox
Sector
Social Business
Location
Pan-India
KEY HIGHLIGHTS
- 4th Wheel Social Impact conducted a virtual Masterclass on “Social Impact Measurement and Management” in collaboration with CSRBox to build participants’ capacities to plan better, implement projects more effectively, facilitate accountability, support stakeholder communication, and guide the allocation of resources.
- 4 batches of the Masterclass were held, with an average of 75 participants in each batch.
- Each Masterclass was spread over 4 days with 3 hours of sessions on each day.
APPROACH
- The definitions and principles of M&E, types of evaluation design, research tools with a specific focus on participatory evaluation methods/ statistics, and the utilisation of M&E results, were covered during the Masterclass.
- The sessions consisted of presentations which were a mix of concept explanations as well as case study reviews. Question and Answer sessions were held frequently to clarify queries.
- Sessions were delivered using interactive and engaging pedagogy. Tools such as Scoping Exercises, Think-Pair- Share, Post-it brainstorming, Worksheets, and Breakout Rooms were utilised to encourage participation and active learning during sessions.
INSIGHTS AND FINDINGS
- Participants learned and explored the Theory and Concepts of Results-based Management and Social Impact Management, fundamentals that would equip them to measure what difference their projects achieved and inform course-corrective actions.
- Specific insights on framing High-level Questions such that an evaluation could comprehensively address the OECD- DAC criteria of relevance, efficiency, effectiveness, impact, sustainability, and coherence, were shared.
- Other associated integral elements such as types of Study Design (needs assessment, baseline, midline evaluation, endline evaluation, post-project study, annual self evaluation) and their variations were explored.
- Sampling or the selection of a subset of individuals from within a statistical population to estimate characteristics of the whole population, its various types and methods, and sampling challenges were introduced. This was accompanied by a sampling exercise to ensure that learning could be applied.
- Participatory Methods or research methods that involve community stakeholders in understanding and solving community problems were delved into. These included cooperative interviewing, temperature gauge, priority ranking, card sorting, dotmocracy, role plays, body mapping, visual archive, and participatory videos, most significant change, community mapping, venn diagrams, matrix scoring, and story theatre.
- Insights on Indicator Development and Indicator Tracking Tables were shared. The former covered the parts of an indicator(population, target, timeline, and threshold), types of indicators (counts, thresholds, percentages, rates, and ratios, index, composite measures, predetermined levels), and best practices on indicator development.
- Participants learned the fundamental concept, tools, and processes that built a Theory of Change and designed a description and illustration of how and why a desired change is expected to happen in a particular context.
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