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Partnerships in DFID-Brazil:
Summary Report on Progress and Thinking regarding Monitoring
and Evaluation of Partnerships by Lisa
M Haggart, December 2002
This summary report responds to a need raised at the recent
Joint Review of the DFID-Brazil programme : to capture all
thinking and progress regarding monitoring and evaluation
of partnerships to-date.
Since
conceptualisation of the programme during M and E system development
, partnerships have been highlighted as the key mechanism
through which DFID-Brazil works. The partnership focus has
been strengthened by increased recognition both internationally
and throughout DFID that partnerships are an important consideration.
This is particularly true of policy work in Middle Income
Countries (MICs) where DFID works through supporting the pro-poor
and pro-equity policies and processes of government, other
donor and IFI organisations.
Needs
for M and E concepts and tools for partnerships soon became
apparent as little was yielded from discussions with other
development institutions or through searching international
literature. Workshops, think sessions and various meetings
have led to the formulation within the DFID Brazil programme
of a conceptual framework for partnerships and the more recent
conceptual diagram . Partnership principles have also been
drafted.
The
diagram and principles mark the end of the first conceptual
phase of the partnerships work: giving a framework of partnership
typologies, criteria and processes, and hence also the basis
of tools and methodologies for monitoring and evaluating.
The next planned phase of work in DFID-Brazil is to practically
test and develop these tools and methodologies with actual
programme partners.
The partnerships work in DFID-Brazil is anticipated to be
of use to many across DFID and beyond as the international
arena increasingly recognises the key role that partnerships
play in international development.
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