sylvain [user:field_middlename] LIMBISA

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• Posted on 12 Jan 2023

  How to define and identify lessons learned?

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    sylvain LIMBISA

    Expert en Recherche, Suivi-Evaluation et Redevabilité Centre de Recherche pour le Développement Integral CREDI

    Democratic Republic of the Congo

    Hello everyone!

    Dear Emilia, I come to give my contribution on the very important point: how to define and identify lessons learned? Indeed, lessons learned are defined as a reasonable approach that serves to discover mistakes and strengths during the process of implementing activities, with the aim of using them as a reference in order to appropriate by correcting, adapting and adopting the same activities for the achievement of the objectives. To achieve this, there is an identification process that I use during evaluations and project management:

    1. Use of quarterly implementation fidelity assessments "FMO": This is a unit of measurement to assess the ToC designed on the basis of project effect, outcome, activities, outputs etc. whereby this assessment measures if the planned activities are able to achieve the outputs quarterly. Thus, the monthly MEAL report will be drafted in the form of a dashboard to demonstrate the quarterly progress of the implementation of activities.

    2. Quarterly workshop organization: this activity is very important in which the overall result on weakness and strength will be shared with all departments (technical, logistics, grant, finance..) to identify the mistakes or strengths making the activities have effectively achieved the outputs or have not achieved the outputs as planned in order to draw an effective model.

    3. Organise focus groups during the workshop: this last step brings together the managers of different departments to reflect on the weakness or strength, the real cause on which each department has contributed to the success or failure in order to to provide a solution, which will be taken as a lesson to launch the next quarter of activities.
    These steps are taken into account during the impact evaluation as well to ensure that all lessons are included in the report for the next project.

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• Posted on 22 Nov 2022

  Developing effective, inclusive and gender responsive MEAL systems

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    sylvain LIMBISA

    Expert en Recherche, Suivi-Evaluation et Redevabilité Centre de Recherche pour le Développement Integral CREDI

    Democratic Republic of the Congo

    Hello dear experts!

    Thank you also for your contributions, and I bring my share of knowledge in the more specific sense of "gender in the food sector - agriculture". Without repeating the contributions of others, it is important that everything is clear, in terms of:

    1. indicators, which must be well specified according to the different groups of food security beneficiaries (pregnant women, people living with disabilities, children, the elderly, female-headed households, polygamous households where women have their own kitchens and are not dependent on their husbands) to facilitate the disaggregation of the specific questionnaires related to them and, above all, the contribution of the activities to meet the indicators. It turns out that the specification of the indicators will also allow the questions to be determined according to the role of the different beneficiary groups to enable the reporting of information on these indicators according to the different groups.

    2. Baseline or initial assessment: to control and identify preliminary issues in order to define the indicators it is necessary to specify the households that cultivate, the households that own arable land etc...., the categories of people that cultivate etc.

    3. Project theory of change: This will define the activities, outputs, and outcomes in order to monitor progress and fidelity of the implementation of the activities during the implementation of the project; and to enable quarterly review of the activities. With the objective of adapting the activities, move on to the training of actors in order to plan well, for the achievement of effective results.

    4. CLA (Collaboration, Learning and Adaptation): Adaptation, training and learning on lessons learned from the results, this to bring stakeholders to review activities, re-plan them according to an effective budget and its staff trained in relation to the evaluation result in order to improve the result and meet the indicators.

    Sylvain LIMBISA NAKITUMBA

    [Translated from French]

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