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Can
you suggest a case study that might form part of a series
on monitoring impact on livelihoods? If so, please contact
Liz Drake (l-drake@dfid.gov.uk).
The Department for International Development (DFID) is committed
to the International Development Targets (IDTs). DFID aims
to meet these targets by working with partners through a variety
of means, including sustainable livelihoods approaches. The
impacts of DFID interventions on livelihoods need to be monitored
and evaluated at all levels (project, programme, and country
level) and their contribution to IDTs assessed.
The Sustainable Livelihoods Support Office (SLSO) wants to
draw together a series of case studies of monitoring impact
on livelihoods. The case studies will be drawn from different
countries and sectors, relate to different themes (these themes
will enable case studies to illustrate monitoring of livelihoods
at project, programme, and country level), and will aim to
assess contributions to IDTs. Case studies will also be selected
to maximise diversity in approaches to livelihoods monitoring.
The initial audience would be development practitioners within
DFID, but the lessons from the work should also be drawn from,
and applicable to, a wider audience, e.g. partner organisations
such as NGOs or Government. The material will be presented
in a 'user-friendly' format and will be available for editing.
It will in the first instance go in the Sustainable Livelihoods
Guidance Sheet folder and on the Livelihoods Connect website,
and may also form part of a separate publication.
The purpose of the case studies will be to:
-
identify best practice and disseminate lessons learned about
how to monitor and assess impact on sustainable livelihoods;
- identify
tools, techniques and a menu of indicators used to elicit
information on impacts on livelihoods at project, programme
and country level;
- demonstrate
how monitoring livelihoods complements or differs from other
forms of monitoring (e.g. 'poverty monitoring'; PRSP monitoring;
Project monitoring etc…);
- demonstrate
how livelihoods monitoring has contributed to poverty elimination
and achieving the IDTs.
The
outputs will be:
- one
or more case studies (maximum 6 pages each), including illustrations
and text.
Scope
The case studies could address themes relating to the following
(or make suggestions for new themes):
1. Monitoring to ensure work is poverty focused.
2. Monitoring to assess the scaling up of impact from project
to programme to IDT level.
3. Monitoring to assess pro-poor policy and institutional
change.
4. Monitoring for lesson learning, reflection and information
feedback during project implementation.
5. Monitoring impacts on livelihoods of participants and to
identify how intervention should be adapted to fit better
with participants.
6. Monitoring access of the poor to different productive assets
and trade-offs between them and asset change over time.
7. Monitoring changes in response to 'vulnerability'.
Details on the suggested format
for case studies are available.
(Liz Drake)
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