Mid-Term Review of the AGIR Programme - Sida

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A N N E X 3 – I N C E P T I O N R E P O R T these change pathways within the AGIR programme and will focus the analysis of the support that is central to the work of capacity strengthening of CSO partners. Evaluation Methodology The approach to the evaluation will require evidence collecting both in Maputo and in the provinces of Mozambique where many of the CSO partners work. The two main sources of evidence in this evaluation used will be the review of programme documentation at the donor, intermediary and CSO partner level and the use of information gathered primarily through interviews with individuals at the donor, intermediary and CSO partner levels. An additional source of evidence will be through the interviewing of individuals or organisations not connected to the AGIR programme, but who work in or have knowledge of the context of AGIR within Mozambique. These ‘second opinions’, or external informants, are important for balancing the information collected through documents and interviews related to the AGIR programme and could play and important role in the triangulation of evidence. These sources can be: Donors not currently involved in the programme, government departments and/or agencies, and local CSOs. Donors with or without interest in joining the AGIR programme including Danida, Other major civil society programmes including MASC, ‘Dialogo’ (DFIDfunded civil society program focusing on five municipalities) Commissions/working groups in the parliament. A primary step in the construction of this evaluative narrative is a review of the documentation produced by and/or associated with the AGIR programme. This process has already begun with documentation collected from Sida and all of the intermediaries. Interviews with the Swedish Embassy/Sida staff and other donors associated with the AGIR programme, as well as those individuals working within the INGOs involved in the programme, have also already begun. The focus of these interviews, while preliminary at this inception stage, has been on unravelling the relationships between the intermediaries and their CSO partner organisations from the perspective of the intermediary. Perhaps the most critical part of the evaluation will be the information collected through semi-structured interviews with selected CSO partner organisations. Examining both the internal and external capacities of the CSO partner organisations and their work in the AGIR programme is crucial to understanding and assessing the progress made so far by the AGIR programme. Semi-structured interviews shall be carried out with a selection of 8 to 10 current AGIR partners. There is no intention to obtain a representative sample among the CSO organisations, which are all very different. Rather, the CSO partners will be selected so as to capture partner diversity, issue-based partner linkages, local, regional, national dimensions and special aspects such as gender or specific rights-based approaches. While the evaluation team will make the final selection of these partner organisations, this selection will be informed through the current ongoing discussions with the intermediary organisations. 101
A N N E X 3 – I N C E P T I O N R E P O R T More specifically, the partners should, as far as possible, be selected using the following criteria: Emphasis will be on core partners, and will include some nursery-funded partners. Represent each of the four thematic clusters of AGIR. Represent each of the above-mentioned partner categories (Human rightsbased CSOs, Natural Resource & Environment CSOs, Broad membership/outreach based CSOs, Investigation and Research CSOs, capacity development and learning, Broad CSO networks, political rights-based CSOs, forums and platforms). Represent the three socioeconomic and geographical main regions of the country: North, Center, South. Illustrate issue-based linkages. Illustrate local, regional, central linkages. In addition to direct CSO partners, a few sub-partner/grassroot organisations shall be interviewed in order to assess the success of the program at the grassroots level, e.g. one of the community radios within the community radio forum (FORCOM), and the farmers union in Tete under the national farmers union for example. While further down the ‘pathway of change’, these downstream outcomes can be crucial to understanding the ‘reach’ of the AGIR programme. In all cases, the relevant TORs evaluation questions will be used to focus and structure the interviews (see section 3.2 above). Work Planning and Travel The original work plan for the mid-term review is still considered realistic. During initial consultations however, the intermediary organisations alerted the team to the fact that the upcoming Frelimo Party Congress takes place during the period from the 20 th of September to the 1 st of October. Based on past experience with this event, there can be serious disturbances to travel (especially air flights). The team will try its best to work around this event by travelling to areas unaffected by the congress. However, some delays in site visits to CSO partners might take place. Please see attached work-plan in Annexes. Utilisation An important component of this evaluation will be the validation of the findings of this evaluation with donors, intermediaries and CSO partners. There are a number of different options on how this consultative process may be undertaken to ensure that learning from the evaluation contributes to the future development of the AGIR programme. Either joint meetings of donor, intermediary and partner organisations can be held or, if necessary, these discussions can be held in smaller more focused groups where the findings of the draft report can be discussed. 102
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