CENTERING WOMEN IN RECONSTRUCTION AND GOVERNANCE CWRG PROJECT IN SRI LANKA

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CENTERING WOMEN IN RECONSTRUCTION AND
GOVERNANCE (CWRG) PROJECT IN SRI LANKA
OUTCOME MAPPING REPORT Based on the Workshop
of February 20-22, 2008
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The Team

• Participants
• Community Women-3 each from Moratuwa and Matara
• NGOs-2 from Siyath Foundation and 1 from Womens
  Bank
• CWRG Project Staff-8 Sevanatha Staff and 1 from
  ICSC
• Government-6 Municipal Council Staff and 1
  person from the Department of Agriculture
• Facilitators
• Sevanatha-K. Jayaratne, Ranjith Samarasingha,
  Sujith Mahage
• ICSC-Sumana Wijeratne
• Trainer Heidi Schaeffer of Rhythm
  Communications, Inc.

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Documentation Team

• ICSC
• Sumana Wijeratne
• WOMEN LEADERS
• J M Niroshini
• Sajeewani Pavitra Peiris
• Chandrika Kumudini

• Sevanatha
• Sujith Mahage
• Hansani S. Semarawickrama
• Chamila Wickremasingha
• Charuni Karunaratna
• Asoka Dissanayaka
• Mallika Chandraratna
• Chamli Wickramaratna
• Municipal Council
• Cyril Greshan Weerakoon
• Manel Ratnayaka
• Kosala
• T Ranasinghe

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What is Outcome Mapping?

• Outcome Mapping or OM as it is popularly known is
  a Tool to measure the changed behaviors,
  relationships, activities and actions of boundary
  partners of a program. OM enables the project
  team to continuously monitor and fine tune the
  project and reinforce or modulate changes as part
  of successful implementation of the project.

Traditional lighting of the lamp at the Outcome
Mapping Workshop
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Workshop objectives
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Vision
Community members meet regularly to determine
goals and actions for improving their living
conditions. Working independently yet actively
participating with municipal councils, regional
authorities and international NGOs, the community
members build awareness and support for better
sanitation and environmental sustainability.
Communities enjoy nutritional food through urban
agriculture and improve their economies through
better livelihoods, respecting religious values
and traditions.
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Community Vision Through Art
Vision drawings made by workshop participants
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Mission
Through organizing and empowering grass roots
women to build self reliance and environmental
stewardship, and engaging women in improving
sanitary and infrastructure services, the CWRG
project will change the attitudes and behaviors
of communities and build the relationship among
women and service providing national and
international, government and non governmental
organizations to improve their knowledge and
skills and net working capabilities aimed at
reaching their goals.
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Boundary partners

• Womens society (WS)
• Municipal council
• Sevanatha /ICSC
• Womens bank
• Agriculture dept.
• Divisional secretariat
• Housing authority
• Dept. of health
• Religious leaders

Workshop Attendees
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Best possible behavioral changes of boundary
partners

• Municipal councils (MCs)

• Womens Societies

• Identify objectives of the Womens Society (WS)
  and adopt them.
• Maintain relationship with WS to help them meet
  their objectives
• Gather and update information
• Plan, implement and monitor programs with
  community participation (PRA)
• Respond promptly to the requests of the WS

• Efficiently manage time
• Build relationship among small groups (Clusters)
• Gain trust of the communities
• Build mutual trust among families
• Build relationship with all community groups
• Engage everybody in planning
• Build trust and mutual understanding among
  office bearers
• Organize to resolve issues related to loneliness.
• Develop awareness about service providers
• Organize against patriarchy

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Best possible behavioral changes of boundary
partners

• Mobilizers

• Sevanatha

• Identify community needs
• Build trust among communities
• Listen to community voices
• Participate in community activities as a
  community member
• Value communities and their actions

• Improve understanding of community actions
• Continue building trust among communities
• Monitor regularly
• Better understanding between CWRG project staff
  and regular staff
• Engage community in monitoring activities
• Respond promptly as needed

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Best possible behavioral changes of boundary
partners

• Women present at the MC meeting

• GROOTS

• Provides regular leadership training
• Trains communities on livelihood assessments
• Provides training for CRC management
• Gives regular feed back on project activities

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Challenges for Womens Society
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Progress markers for Womens Society
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Womens Society Contd.
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Strategy Map Women society
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Challenges for MCs
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Progress markers for MCs
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Strategy Map for MCs
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Challenges for Sevanatha
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Progress Markers - Sevanatha
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Follow up work

• Sujith will meet with the team and show them the
  progress markers journals of the Sri Lanka Urban
  Greening Project
• Hansani will assist Amila to type the Sinhalese
  version of this document
• Hansani will also help Amila to type progress
  markers for all partners (WS. M.C. and Sevanatha)
  into journals and arrange meeting with Sujith on
  November 1
• Next review meeting will be held in May/June
  together with Sumanas trip
• ICSC will explore the possibility of getting
  additional funding for OM training for
  Matara/Moratuwa MC staff and cluster cities
• Participants/documentation team will fill the
  journals for the next review meeting

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Outcome of OM Training

• Built relationship among partners

• Women as resources

Workshop attendees
The group reflects on changes and expectations