Civil Society Partnerships Programme: Achievements

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Civil Society Partnerships Programme
Achievements Looking Ahead

• CSPP Partners Workshop
• 13th 15th November 2006
• ODI, London

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Overall programme

• Welcome / Introduction to workshop
• Introductions and updates
• General progress
• Storytelling/Case Studies
• The Latin America Network
• The ToT in Africa
• Presentations from Other ODI Groups
• Action Research Global Projects
• Network development
• The New Global Project
• ME and Indicators
• Funding brainstorm
• Launch of Name and Website
• Preparation for the Advisers Meeting
• Presentations to the Advisers

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• General Progress
• (John Young, Naved Chowdhury)

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Progress so far

• gt 20 Publications Website
• gt 1000 Participants at WS Seminars
• Network established gt 20 core members
• LA network gt 100 members
• Demand from international NGOs
• ? ODI communication capacity
• 57 public meetings
• 1.6 million web visitors
• 15,000 subscribers to newsletter.
• 2 successful (?) global projects
• Phase II approved by DFID
• New research.
• 5 ARPs approved
• ToT East Africa
• Several exchanges
• Raised profile in ODI better collaboration
• External advisers more interested
• Other donors interested

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Action!
Field trip to CEF partner project, Bangladesh
Presentation at regional workshop, Malawi
Discussing case studies, Sri Lanka workshop
Field trip to Naamacha Secondary School,
Mozambique, to test context analysis tools
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The Impact Log

• The CSO Capacity for Policy Engagement paper
  pays attention to a number of concerns and the
  responses to them that we face in our work as
  Advisors facilitating Capacity Building Services.
  Congratulations for this product Jyotsna Roy,
  SPARK-Senior Advisor Local Governance Gender,
  SNV
• We appreciate our relationship with CSPP and
  ODI. We receive capacity building training on
  research, policy and advocacy work and
  newsletters from you. Thank you for all your good
  work Angel E Musenge Executive Director, Voice
  of the Youth Project, Zambia
• I found the case studies used in the Sri Lanka
  workshop useful in a workshop we ran in Uganda
  recently to draw lessons on what makes for
  successful advocacy. Adam Platt, Triple Line
  Consulting
• I found the August issue of the CSPP
  E-newsletter a very useful Keep up the good
  work, it seems like you are developing a really
  useful information sharing and capacity building
  network that will a significant resource for CSOs
  across the world. Gideon Rabinowitz, CUTS
  International

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Phase II Revised Log Frame

• Not a major change but
• Recognition of external and internal objectives
  (purpose)
• 4 external outputs
• Facilitating the network
• Capacity development
• Collaborative action-research projects
• Research
• 3 internal outputs
• ODI Communication Capacity
• Capacity to work with CSOs
• Orientation towards CSOs

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Narrative Summary

• Super-Goal
• Poverty reduced in developing countries
• Goal
• Development policy is more pro-poor
• Purpose
• Southern CSOs make more use of research-based
  evidence to influence the establishment of
  pro-poor policy, and
• ODI engages more effectively with southern CSOs
  and other stakeholders to make more use of ODIs
  research-based evidence to influence the
  establishment of pro-poor policy.

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Narrative Summary

• Network
• Interactive community website
• Information and knowledge exchange
• General support
• Capacity-building
• staff exchange,
• visiting fellows to ODI and Southern institutes,
• Southern participants in global policy events
• Training and ToT
• Research (lessons disseminated)
• Ongoing learning
• How to do it guidelines
• New research
• Collaborative projects
• Small-scale ARPs
• Continued support to existing projects
• One new global collaborative project each year

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Narrative Summary

• ODI knowledge easily accessible to CSOs.
• Communications strategy emphasising CSOs
• Improved ODI website and publications
• Meetings and events for CSOs
• Greater engagement with the media
• ODI staff use research-based evidence better.
• Build systems and skills in ODI
• Encourage enhanced networking
• ODI better able to work with CSOs.
• Strengthened ODI focus on policy influence and
  working with CSOs
• Improved incentives for staff
• Greater engagement of the CSPP in ODI
• Inputs to other ODI programmes

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CSPP Network Progress so far

• What was the network expected to do?
• Lots of activities have taken place (TOT,
  Website, Newsletter, Action Research Projects,
  Placement, CSPP LA network, participation in
  external events, etc)
• Lots of enquiry about the network (IDRC, Hewlett,
  AKF, NBD, ICCDA- Inter regional Co-ordinating
  Committee for Development Associations etc)
• Substantial external demand for support (CEF),
  Transparency International, Infodev

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Impact and Governance

• Too early to say whether having big impact on the
  work of the partners.
• Still hugely ODI Led.
• Interaction among partners been very limited.
• Do we need to define levels of network
  membership?
• Should CD be only for Core partners?
• How do we find the balance between investing in
  core partners and in broader network members?

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• Storytelling/Case Studies
• (Ben Ramalingam)

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Stories of change

• Situation
• A change or challenge
• Action
• Result
• Lesson

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Stories of change

• What was the most significant change that has
  come about as a result of your research into
  policy work in the past 12-18 months?
• Changes can be
• positive or negative
• Related to expanded substantive understanding, a
  process / structural change, or a change in
  relationship
• Group or individually focused
• Internal or external

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As pairs then groups

• Think of a specific change to which you made a
  contribution in one of your own projects or
  programmes, past or present
• Reflect and recall the detail before, during and
  after. Write nothing down
• 1 minute
• Find someone who havent worked with yet and take
  it in turns to listen to and tell a story
• Please write nothing down.
• 4 minutes 2 mins each
• Use templates to interview your partner and write
  each story up
• Make sure your images and messages are clear.
• 10 minutes 5 minutes each
• Find another pair and tell your partners story
• 12 minutes 3 minutes each
• In your new groups of 4, ask What are the five
  concrete actions emerging from this? How might we
  apply these?
• 10 minutes per group

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Latin America Network,Vanesa Weyrauch, CIPPEC

• Lessons Learned
• How to Establish them in Africa and Asia?

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TOT in East AfricaVivian Kazi, ESRF

• Lessons Learned
• How to capitalise on them?

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DFIDs Governance and Transparency Fund

• DFIDs White Paper 3 Governance
• The ability of citizens to make their voices
  heard and hold their governments to account is
  fundamental to good governance.
• DFIDs Governance and Transparency Fund designed
  to help citizens hold their governments to
  account, through strengthening the wide range of
  groups that can empower and support them.

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What the Fund is?

• 100 million over five years to start in 2007
• To fund coherent portfolios of projects by
  consortia between 1m and 5m
• Working through local partnerships and networks
• NGOs, faith-based groups, TUs, co-operatives,
  media, democracy promotion
• At least 85 of funds to southern organisations

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The GT Fund, ODI and its CSPP and other
partners

• ODI considering putting in a proposal
• To lead a consortium
• provide management, ME, comparative research,
  cross-case learning, synthesis, and expertise on
  governance/ transparency/ accountability
• Working with southern partners
• Building on the CSPP

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What do you think?

• Of interest to CSPP? Of interest to you?
• What are challenges re governance/ transparency/
  accountability in your country/region?
• What themes or issues would make good entry
  points for enhancing governance by demanding
  accountability?
• Media freedoms
• Budget monitoring
• Parliamentary engagement
• others?
• Questions?
• http//www.dfid.gov.uk/consultations/gtf-guideline
  s.pdf

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• Presentations from ODI Groups