Elements and Performance Criteria
- Identify strategic priorities in a development and/or humanitarian assistance context
- Work collaboratively with local and/or international partners to identify priorities which maximise long term development and self reliance of target communities and groups
- Ensure identified priorities maximise cross project efficiencies and build on existing strengths and capacities of stakeholders and local infrastructure
- Ensure identified priorities take into account external influences likely to impact future projects
- Ensure identified priorities reflect and take into consideration application of the concepts and principles of aid effectiveness and community development
- Clarify potential sources of funding that may be available to address identified priorities
- Work collaboratively to design a development and/or humanitarian assistance program
- Consult with partners working in the sector to identify the range and coverage of separate projects planned or operating concurrently in the geographical area and sector
- Identify, capture and maximise efficiency gains from integrating projects
- Identify and document cross sectoral issues in partnership with other organisations and target community or group
- Ensure program design incorporates measures to effectively address cross sectoral issues
- Ensure documentation clearly communicates to personnel the implications of cross sectoral issues
- Ensure program design adheres to organisation policies, procedures and document in line with any accepted formats and proformas
- Ensure program design includes criteria for evaluation of impact and effectiveness and processes for monitoring implementation as a basis for evaluation
- Prepare operational plan
- Prepare operational plan which reflects needs identified during consultation and information gathering stage and conforms to organisation standards
- Submit draft design for review to appropriate personnel, partnering organisations and representatives of the target community or group
- Evaluate feedback and appropriately incorporate into operational plan
- Identify performance indicators in project plan as well as methodology for data collection
- Monitor implementation of program
- Collect program information as outlined in project plan about program activities, outcomes achieved, expenditure and issues arising
- Interview key stakeholders using culture and gender sensitive interview techniques and arrangements
- Seek feedback regarding program activities, program outcomes and impact on the community, personnel behaviour and performance and recommendations for changes or for future programs
- Identify and appropriately investigate unforeseen aspects of program activities
- Actively consider cross sectoral issues in monitoring the project, taking into consideration field constraints
- Evaluate impact of program
- Analyse data and feedback and use as the basis for evaluating the impact of the program and how effectively it is addressing the established criteria
- Identify extent to which program has achieved identified outcomes
- Compare findings from the data and feedback against the established criteria to determine the impact of the program
- Identify and document alternative and unplanned program outcomes and impacts
- Compare program expenditure against budgets and available ongoing funding
- Identify appropriate adjustments to the program
- Prepare relevant documentation to report on the program, including recommendations for changes to address performance variations
- Report on the program evaluation to relevant stakeholders