heifer international tanzania organizational

HEIFER INTERNATIONAL TANZANIA
ORGANIZATIONAL IMPACT ASSESSMENT
PRESENTATION
AT INTERACTION EVALUATIVE THINKING WORKSHOP
HELD IN ACCRA, GHANA, DECEMBER 10- 12, 2013
By
Msangya Msangya
Planning, Monitoring & Evaluation Manager
Heifer International Tanzania
Presentation Outline
Brief on Heifer International Tanzania
What it does
Livestock enterprise portfolios
Livestock enterprises benefits
Strategies and Action Plan
Theory of Change/categories of Impact
Measures
• How Heifer assesses it impacts
• Categories of Impact Measures in Heifer
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Brief on Heifer International Tanzania
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• HITz is a registered INGO in Tanzania affiliated with Heifer Project
International in the United States of America (USA).
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Vision: Communities living together in peace and equitably sharing
the resources of a healthy planet.
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Mission: To work with communities to end hunger and poverty and
care for the earth.
• Purpose: Works with vulnerable families and communities in
partnership with relevant stakeholders to improve food and
nutrition security, increase income and assets by sharing
knowledge, livestock and other resources, empowering women and
ensuring environmental sustainability.
• Therefore, HITz, enables resource-poor farm families to build
resilience and sustainable livelihoods to overcome abject poverty.
What Heifer Tanzania does
• Implements programs/projects using a
sustainable
livelihoods
approach
in
supporting diverse, socially appropriate and
economically viable, integrated, livestock
farming enterprises portfolios that enable
resource-poor farm families to build resilience
and sustainable livelihoods to overcome
abject poverty.
Livestock enterprises portfolios
Sample
Direct benefits to smallholder farmers
• Benefits
Direct benefits Cont…
Camel milking: Halima Jumanne, one the Kipashe & Ruvu Camel Groups members
milking a camel. The groups collect a total of 100 liters per day from the 10 camels
they are milking.
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Heifer’s Strategy and Action Plan
Ends – Define What results Heifer will achieve
Heifer’s Strategy & Action Plan for Impact – Defines How Heifer works
Key Results
Growth, Mobilization
and Stewardship – a
growing and diverse
financial portfolio
with engaged donors
and financiers
Measured by:
1. Increase in funds
2. Donor acquisition
retention
3. Deepening donor
experience and
engagement
4. Percent change
in components of
funding portfolio
1. Scale-up Program
Impact
PROJECT
2. Growth and
Diversification
of Support and
Revenue
3. Strengthen
Core Global
Operating
Systems
Key Results
Hunger and poverty ended for millions
of smallholder farmers. Measured by:
1. Number of families above the
poverty line+
2. Deeper impact in dimensions of
theory of change
3. Smallholders engaged in value
chains significant enough to lift
smallholders out of poverty
4. Systemic change and impact
beyond household level
Key Results
Quality, performance excellence,
accountability.
Measured by:
1. Program quality
2. Donor satisfaction
3. Employee engagement
4. Negative overhead growth
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Theory of Change- Categories of Impact Measures
From Vulnerability to Sustainability. Heifer believes that it significantly contributes to feeding the world and securing sustainable
livelihoods, by enhancing the capacity of vulnerable and smallholder farmers especially women. These accompanied by strong social
capital and women’s empowerment will have multiplier effects and result in a sustainable reduction in world hunger and poverty
Factors contributing to poverty and hunger:
Marginalization, gender discrimination, lack of access to resources and services, lack of diversified livelihood opportunities, vulnerability, low income, and environmental
degradation
Core Indicators:
Dimensions:
Categories of
Impact
Goal: Improved global sustainable livelihoods
Food
Security and
Nutrition
Increase in
Income and
Assets
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Income
Assets
Expenditures
• Percent change of
families' monthly
average gross
income
• Percent change of
families owning
basic productive
assets
• Percent change of
families owning
basic nonproductive assets
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Availability
Accessibility
Utilization
• Percent change in project
related livestock
productivity
• Percent change in project
related crop productivity
• Average Number of Meals
per day
• Percent change in
Household Dietary
Diversity Score
• Percent change in Months
of Adequate Household
Food Provisioning
Women
Empowerment
Environment
• Agro-ecological
Production practices
• Natural Resources
Management
• Waste Management
Social Capital
• Agency
• Structure
• Relations
• Structural
• Cognitive
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• Percent change of
families
implementing agroecological practices
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Percent change of participants
reporting women control of
productive assets, own education,
own labor and freedom of
movement
Percent change of participants
reporting women decision making
power over household
expenditures, children education,
fertility and group participation
Percent change of participants
reporting women having an
enabling environment
Percent change of participants
reporting women active
participation at community level
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Percent change of families reporting
participation in community organizations
Percent change of families reporting
participation in informal community
networks
Percent change of families reporting equal
participation in the community of society’s
diverse groups
Percent change of families reporting
community members equality of access to
utilities and services
Percent change of families reporting trust
among community members
Percent change of families reporting
solidarity and cooperation among
community members
Percent change of families reporting
positive perception of PoG's
Percent of families reporting commitment
to participate in PoG
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How Heifer assesses overall organizational impacts
Organizational level (annual):
• Finance audits (internal & external)
• Staff performance appraisal
• Identified programs/project evaluations
• Leadership performance management
assessment
How HITz assess overall organizational impacts cont..
Project level:
• Annual Implementation Plans
• Sustainable livelihoods assessments
• Baseline surveys
• Outcome mapping
• Impact project’s monitoring during
implementation, NOT at the end
• Success stories for learning
• Participatory self-review and planning
• Joint stakeholder review meetings
Why HITz decided to assess organizational impact?
• Need for triple accountability
• Need to get informed and transform
• Need to document lesson learned for replicating
and/or scaling up
• Need to be a fundamental lead in reducing hunger
and poverty through integrated livestock
enterprises
Note:
Inform is getting relevant, reliable and accurate information .
Transform is using the information to facilitate positive changes.
Who are involved in collecting/analyzing data?
• Project staff at field levels
• Monitoring and Evaluation Project Officers
• Clusters’ (Regional) Managers
• Project Planning, Monitoring, Evaluation & Learning
Manager at country Office
• Identified consultants (periodically)
How results can be achieved
-Through intensive integrated livestock husbandry
improvement theoretical and practical training
-Through placement of genetic potential livestock
spices suiting specific environment
- Adequate extension services to farmers by either
government or Private Public Partnership
- Through readiness (able and willingness) of
smallholder farmers to attitudinal change for
adopting new skills and technologies
How information is shared
-Shared at country Senior Management Team level
then with staff to inform and or transform
- Shared with partners including donors in joint
review meeting or special report
- Documented for lesson learned that are used for
new intervention replication or scaling up
Note: Partners are implementing stakeholders (i.e., state and
non-state actors), while donors are funders.
Process put in place to ensure use of information
• There is a strong M&E system in place from
project level to headquarters to ensure the
use of the following information
Field visit reporting system
 Quarterly joint meetings to update on the progress
and challenges
Project reporting (financial and narrative ) systems,
Web-based program information (PPMIS)
Web-based financial systems (AGRESSO)
Web-based project success story systems
How results can be improved in the future
• More friendly information system for local
partner level to access is needed.
• Country specific information server is needed.
• More public reporting to inform and enable
their attitudinal change (to transform) is
fundamental.
• More sharing what Heifer is doing with other
organizations is critical for improvement.
The use of information
-Helps in planning new interventions, based on
experience and lesson learned
-Helps in designing interventions and
operationalizing the scaling up of interventions
-Helps to improve daily ways of doing things, and
NOT taking work as usual
-Leads to improved funding opportunities from
institutional donors
-Creates more trust and transparency of the
organization for outsiders (donors)
Challenges being encountered in doing assessment
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Time consuming
Very costly
Qualified personnel needed all the time
Need appropriate technology for data base
(collation, analysis and storage)
Broader lessons learned from the experience
- Planning for impact monitoring during
implementation, and not waiting to do it at
the end of the intervention, is informative,
educative and helps to transform.
-Doing monitoring based on donor
requirements alone does not have benefits for
the organization and beneficiaries.
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