GiveIndia Foundation
Social Impact Management and Measurement Trainings
Partner/Client
GiveIndia Foundation
Sector
NGO
Location
Pan-India
KEY HIGHLIGHTS
- 4th Wheel Social Impact conducted a virtual training program on “Social Impact Management and Measurement ” in collaboration with Give India Foundation to build participants’ capacities to manage, evaluate, and improve the impact achieved by their organisation.
- The interactive workshop was organised over 4 days, with 2 hours of sessions on each day.
APPROACH
- The sessions consisted of a presentation which included concept explanations, case studies, videos, and practical insights, along with reflection exercises, to ensure engaging and interactive pedagogy.
- Question and answer sessions were held at the start and end of each day of training to clarify queries.
- Participants were given exercises to complete- some exercises were to be completed in between the sessions while activity sheets were post-workshop activities.
- The complementary activity sheets enabled participants to simultaneously apply the concepts they were learning about.
INSIGHTS AND FINDINGS
- Participants learned and explored the Concepts of Results-based Management and Social Impact Management and Measurement. Fundamentals such as inputs, outputs, outcomes, and impacts, that would equip them to articulate and measure what difference their projects achieved and inform course-corrective actions, were covered.
- 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.
- 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.
- Participants were taken through the activity of building a sampling frame, covering aspects such as identification of main stakeholders, calculation of sample size, and stratification at various levels (state/partner/urban-rural/ gender/ batch).
- 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 were oriented to Research Tools with their main pros and cons and contextual aspects laid out.
- Participants delved into the key steps and considerations that went into building a Theory of Change (TOC). They also designed a TOC i.e., description and illustration of how and why a desired change was expected to happen in a particular context.
RECOMMENDATIONS / VALUE ADDITION
- Participants were conceptually equipped to initiate and/or improve Monitoring and Evaluation (M&E) processes within their organisations.
- Not only did their knowledge on social program design frameworks improve, their ability to understand, manage, monitor, report, and evaluate social programs was also strengthened.
- In addition to learning the concepts and nuances of M&E, participants had actively worked towards developing the shell of a Monitoring Evaluation and Learning (MEL) framework. This process of active learning entailed that they were better equipped to apply their learnings from the workshop.
