Transcript 1 - CSPP

Civil Society Partnerships
Programme: Achievements &
Looking Ahead
CSPP Advisors’ Meeting
15th November 2006
ODI, London
The Programme
• Update
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General (JY)
The Network (Naved)
ODI Communications (Kirsty)
New LF, M&E etc (JY)
• Feedback from Partners’ Meeting
• Lunch
• General Discussion:
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Issues arising from the Partners Meeting
(Financial) Governance
The Long-Term Future
AOB
Progress so far
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> 20 Publications + Website
> 1000 Participants at WS & Seminars
Network established > 20 core members
LA network > 100 members
Demand from international NGOs
↑ ODI communication capacity
2 successful (?) global projects
Phase II approved by DFID
New research
5 ARPs approved
ToT East Africa
Several exchanges
Raised profile in ODI & better collaboration
External advisers more interested
Other donors interested
The Impact Log
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“The [CSO Capacity for Policy Engagement paper] pays attention
to a number of concerns and the responses to them that we face in
our work as Advisors facilitating Capacity Building Services.
Congratulations for this product…” Jyotsna Roy, SPARK-Senior
Advisor Local Governance & Gender, SNV
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“We appreciate our relationship with CSPP and ODI. We receive
capacity building training on research, policy and advocacy work
and newsletters from you. Thank you for all your good work…”
Angel E Musenge Executive Director, Voice of the Youth Project,
Zambia
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“I found the case studies used in the Sri Lanka workshop useful in
a workshop we ran in Uganda recently – to draw lessons on what
makes for successful advocacy.” Adam Platt, Triple Line Consulting
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“I found the August issue of the CSPP E-newsletter a very useful …
Keep up the good work, it seems like you are developing a really
useful information sharing and capacity building network that will a
significant resource for CSOs across the world.” Gideon
Rabinowitz, CUTS International
The Network: Progress
• Lots of activities have taken place (TOT,
Website, Newsletter, Action Research
Projects, Placement, CSPP LA network,
participation in external events, etc)
• Lots of enquiry about the network (IDRC,
Hewlett, AKF, NBD, ICCDA- Inter regional
Co-ordinating Committee for
Development Associations etc)
• Substantial external demand for support:
(CEF), Transparency International,
Infodev
The Network: Issues
• Too early to say whether having big
impact on the work of the partners.
• Still hugely ODI led.
• Interaction among partners been very
limited.
• Do we need to define levels of
network membership?
• Should CD be only for Core partners?
• How do we find the balance between
investing in core partners and in
broader network members?
ODI’s own Communication
• The aim was to build an integrated
approach to communications
• New communications staff recruited
within research groups
• Revamped information products, for
example the Annual Report
• New intranet and ‘How to’ guides
• New website in the pipeline
• Improved meetings service
• Applying RAPID’s tools across ODI
Communication: what next?
• Focus on networks - working with Naved to
build communications advice
• Making more of case studies, stories
• Repackaging existing RAPID/CSPP
materials and marketing them more widely
• Use of CD-Roms, VC, audio, translation,
blogs, opinions
• Dialogue, access, process = participation
• Media networks in the South
• Universities
• M&E – statistics, feedback, listening
Phase II – Revised Log Frame
Not a major change but:
• Recognition of external and
internal objectives (purpose)
• 4 external outputs:
– Facilitating the network
– Capacity development
– Collaborative action-research
projects
– Research
• 3 internal outputs:
– ODI Communication Capacity
– Capacity to work with CSOs
– Orientation towards CSOs
Goal and Purpose
Super-Goal
Poverty reduced in developing countries
Goal
Development policy is more pro-poor
Purpose
• Southern CSOs make more use of
research-based evidence to influence the
establishment of pro-poor policy, and
• ODI engages more effectively with
southern CSOs and other stakeholders to
make more use of ODI’s research-based
evidence to influence the establishment of
pro-poor policy.
Outputs
1. A network to generate and share knowledge
about, and support CSOs in their efforts to use
research-based evidence to influence pro-poor
policy processes.
2. Relevant capacity-building events and products
for network members and other CSOs.
3. Relevant lessons from programme research and
reflection disseminated to CSPP stakeholders.
4. Global policy-advocacy and national actionresearch projects with CSPP network members.
5. ODI knowledge on development policy issues,
policy processes, and how research-based
evidence can influence them is easily accessible
to CSOs.
6. ODI staff use research-based evidence better.
7. ODI as a whole is better able to work with CSOs.
Key Actors and Activities
Key actors:
• Academic and PRIs in North & South
• Internal ODI stakeholders
• Other CSOs (iNGOS, NGOS, GROs,
networks, foundations etc).
High-impact activities:
• Capacity development for CSPP network
members
• Improving the skills of ODI staff
• Ensuring ODI knowledge is accessible to
CSOs
• Ensuring relevant programme lessons are
disseminated
M&E “Products”
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Annual Report.
Annual Report to DFID
DFID Mid-Term Review (late 2007)
Annual Partners' Meeting (November)
Annual Advisors' Meeting (November)
Virtual ½ yearly Advisors' Meeting
SMT Meetings in ODI
CSPP Management Team Meetings.
CSPP Newsletter (quarterly)
Web Site (updated regularly)
Special Products (eg Baseline Survey,
Green Book etc).
Fundraising/Collaboration
Other Programmes:
• CEF
• WB INFODEV
• IDRC
• DFID (LA Trade / C4C / Kenya)
• Abe Lowenthal / GDN / ?
Untied Funds:
• Hewlett
• DFID (PPA / GTF)
• Big Lottery Fund
• Bill & Melinda Gates
The Partners’ Meeting
• Great atmosphere
• Great policy influence stories: much
experience, much common ground.
• CSPPLA / ToT
• Enthusiasm for collaborative work
(GTF, ARPs, New Global Policy
Project, INFODEV, LATrade)
• Nervousness about the Network –
focus, ownership, perspective.
• Name: Bridging Research and Policy
Network
Feedback
• Group 1: How to increase interaction
between the members
• Group 2: Capacity Development – for
whom?
• Group 3: Governance and structure
of the network: how should it evolve
• Group 4: Global & Regional
Collaboration
• Group 5: Funding
Key questions for today
• For Phase 2: Is the programme doing the
right things with the right people in the right
way? Any suggestions for improvements?
• Any suggestions for new directions in
Phase 3?
• Comments / Suggestions in response to
feedback from Partners’ Meeting
• Governance:
– How to develop the roles of the Partners and
Advisors?
– How to avoid becoming a donor and
undermining its role as a partner, mentor and
facilitator
• Any suggestions for new Advisors /
Partners