Transcript LogFrames - Food and Nutrition Technical Assistance III Project

Food for Peace Monitoring and Evaluation Workshop for
FFP Development Food Assistance Projects
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Food and Nutrition Technical Assistance III Project (FANTA)
FHI 360 1825 Connecticut Ave., NW Washington, DC 20009
Tel: 202-884-8000 Fax: 202-884-8432 Email: [email protected] Website: www.fantaproject.org
Session Objectives
By the end of this session, participants will have:
• Explained what their project’s LogFrame
communicates and how it supports their particular
project’s M&E plan and system
• Defined the key components of a LogFrame and how
each component relates to each other
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LogFrame
Narrative
Summary
Goal
Project
Purpose
Sub-purpose
Immediate
Outcome
Output
Input
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Indicators
Data Sources
Assumptions
Language Equivalence
RESULTS FRAMEWORK
LOGFRAME (EQUIVALENCE)
Goal
Goal
Strategic Objective (SO)
Project Purpose
Intermediate Result (IR)
Sub-purpose
Sub-IR
Immediate Outcome
Project activities
Output
Input
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Activity 1: Your LogFrame
(5 minutes)
Individually read your project’s LogFrame.
Determine:
• What does your project plan to accomplish?
• How will your project accomplish its purposes and
sub-purposes?
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Activity 2: Describe Your Project
(10 minutes)
Partner with someone from another organization:
• In 5 minutes (in total), describe your projects to each
other, using your LogFrame as a guide. Ask questions
of each other, as needed.
Plenary Discussion (5 min):
• How did the LogFrame help you to explain your
project and answer the questions we asked?
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What Are the Basic Purposes of
LogFrames?
Project
Design/Planning
LogFrame
Purpose
Monitoring and
Evaluation
Communication
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In a good project, the
main objective is
stated as a RESULT:
“House built”
Single objective
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Clear vision
Some projects lack a clear view of their
destination
“If you don’t know
where you’re going, any
road will get you there.”
–Lewis Carroll,
Alice in Wonderland
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Some projects don’t know how to get
where they want to go
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LogFrame: Your project’s Road Map
Narrative
Summary
Goal
Project
Purpose
Sub-purpose
Immediate
Outcome
Output
Input
LogFrames
Indicators
Data Sources
Assumptions
Activity 3: LogFrames
Key Definitions
Narrative
Summary
Goal
Project
Purpose
Sub-purpose
Immediate
Outcome
Output
Input
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Indicators
Data Sources
Assumptions
Critical Assumptions and Risks
Specific and measurable (if
possible)
Verify validity
Assess importance
Evaluate risk
Mitigate risk
Monitor changes in the status
of the assumption
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Project
Design/Planning
LogFrame
Purpose
Monitoring and
Evaluation
Communication
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Approximate Correlation Between LogFrame
and Indicator Levels
Impact and
Outcome
Indicators
• Goal
• Purpose
Outcome
Indicators
• Sub-purpose
• Immediate outcomes
Output and
Process Indicators
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• Output
• Input
Monitoring at every level helps pinpoint where a
barrier may exist
Goal: Poverty reduced
Household incomes
remained unchanged.
Purpose: Farm
incomes increased
Sub-Purpose: Production of nontraditional crops increased
Immediate Outcome:
Knowledge of how to use new
seeds varieties increased
Outputs/Inputs: We train farmers
from 50 households to use new seeds;
we distribute seeds and fertilizer
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Only 5 of 50 households
produced the new crop.
80% of farmers
remembered what
they learned.
Families had to
eat the seeds during
the hungry months
1 bag of seed and 5 bags of fertilizer
distributed to 50 households; 50 households
trained in cultivation of new crop.
Potential LogFrame Pitfalls
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Potential Pitfall #1:
Unclear Wording
To maximize the capabilities of
professional staff and use taxpayer
resources wisely while engaging in
therapeutic interventions and case
management processes so that
children’s development capacities
are unencumbered by adverse
environmental circumstances of
experiences.
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VS.
Children safe from
abuse and neglect.
Potential Pitfall #2:
Not Using “If…Then” Causal Logic
Narrative
Summary
Goal
Project
Purpose
We think this will
be the outcome
If we do these
activities
and use these
resources
Sub-purpose
Immediate
Outcome
Output
Input
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Indicators
Data Sources
Assumptions
Goal: Poverty reduced
Purpose: Farm
incomes increased
Sub-Purpose: Production of nontraditional crops increased
Immediate Outcome:
Knowledge of how to use new
seeds varieties increased
Outputs/Inputs: We train farmers to
use new seeds; we distribute seeds
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Assumptions
Goal: Poverty reduced
Purpose: Farm
incomes increased
Sub-Purpose: Production of nontraditional crops increased
Immediate Outcome:
Knowledge of how to use new
seeds varieties increased
Outputs/Inputs: We train farmers to
use new seeds; we distribute seeds
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Assumptions
Potential Pitfall #3:
Causality versus Definition
Healthier Families
(Purpose)
Healthier Families
(Purpose)
Healthy
Healthy
Healthy
Moms
Dads
Children
(SP1)
(SP2)
(SP3)
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Potential Pitfall #3:
Causality versus Definition
Healthier Families
(Purpose)
Improved
Quality of
Health
Services
(SP1)
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Increased
Access to
Health
Services
(SP2)
Improved
Health
Practices in
Household
(SP3)
Potential Pitfall #4:
Purpose and Sub-Purpose Say the Same Thing
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Purpose
• Human health, related to
nutrition, potable water, and
health education improved
Subpurpose
• Health and nutritional status of
children less than 5 years of age
and women of reproductive age
improved
Potential Pitfall #5:
Purpose and Sub-Purpose in Reverse Order
Purpose 1: Increased crop production
SP1.1 Food security of resettled households is protected
SP1.2 Improved MOA agricultural extension services to target households
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Potential Pitfall #6:
Two Levels in One Results Statement
PROJECT A’s Purpose:
Community capacity
and early warning
systems strengthened to
reduce risk and
vulnerability
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PROJECT B’s Purpose:
Enhance and protect
livelihood strategies
through sustainable
improvements in
agriculture, animal
husbandry and NRM
practices
PROJECT C’s Purpose:
Reduce vulnerability to
risk and shocks by
diversifying household
income earning
opportunities
Potential Pitfall #7: “Capacity building” is
usually not a result, but a step in the process
Purpose
Sub-purpose
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• The capacity of communities to
manage risks and cope with
shocks resulting from
vulnerability will be strengthened
• The capacities of food security
committees in the prevention of
risks and shocks is reinforced
Potential Pitfall #8:
Indicators do not measure the result
statement
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Potential Pitfall #9:
Not Integrating Gender into the
LogFrame
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Potential Pitfall #10:
Not Integrating Environmental
Considerations into the LogFrame
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Final Words of Wisdom About LogFrames
• The most important thing is for there to be a clear
shared understanding of what the project is trying to
accomplish and how it is doing that.
– The LogFrame is an ideal tool for communicating
that idea.
• Avoid getting bogged down in the LogFrame.
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Summary
What to Look for in a LogFrame
• LogFrame should follow causal logic
– If…then, why, and how
• Results statements should be:
– Clear
– Meaningful
– Specific
– Measurable
– Feasible
• Results statements should be uni-dimensional: different
levels should not be crammed into one result (by,
through, to, in order to, so that, via)
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Summary
What to Look for in a LogFrame
• Results should cause the level above, not define it
• LogFrame should not state the same thing in the subpurpose as is said in the purpose
– Remember, the purpose should describe the final end
condition the project wants to achieve
• The purpose, sub-purposes and immediate outcomes
should not be in reverse positions
– Remember, the lower level causes the upper level to
happen
• Capacity building is a means to an end; that end is what
should appear in purposes and sub-purposes, not
capacity building (with some exceptions)
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Summary
What to Look for in a LogFrame
• Indicators should measure the results statements
• Assumptions need to be specific and measurable (if
possible), valid, relevant, and be monitored
• Risks must be assessed and mitigated
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Resources
• Excerpt from ADS (Automated Directives System)
Chapter 201: Planning
• USAID Technical Note: The Logical Framework
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This presentation is made possible by the generous support of the
American people through the support of the Office of Health,
Infectious Diseases and Nutrition, Bureau for Global Health, and
Office of Food for Peace, Bureau for Democracy, Conflict and
Humanitarian Assistance, United States Agency for International
Development (USAID) under terms of Cooperative Agreement No.
AID-OAA-A-12-00005, through the Food and Nutrition Technical
Assistance III Project (FANTA), managed by FHI 360. The contents are
the responsibility of FHI 360 and do not necessarily reflect the views
of USAID or the United States Government.
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