Evaluating Global and Regional Partnership Programs

IEG Week 2011

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GRPP Evaluated

• Cities Alliance• Association for the Development of Education in

Africa (ADEA)• Global Facility for Disaster Reduction and Recovery• Water and Sanitation Program• Global Facility for Disaster Reduction and Recovery

(GFDRR)• The International Land Coalition• Global Road Safety Facility (GRSF)• Global Donor Platform for Rural Development• infoDev

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ISSUES WITH TERMS OF REFERENCE

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Terms of Reference

• Scope and focus comparable: relevance, efficacy, efficiency, sustainability, Management.

• Limited links between evaluation questions and program maturity

• Strong focus of relevance of objectives – less on relevance of design

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Terms of Reference

• Efficacy– Clear questions and appropriate

resources allocated to evaluate inputs, progress of activities and outputs

– Questions on outcomes tend to downplay outcomes multiplier, downstream effects , unintended effects, boundaries of effects

– In general unsuficcient resources allocated to evaluating outcomes

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Terms of Reference

• GRPP include efficiency questions – they are difficult to answer– Changing scale and scope of GRPP– Absence of benchmark

• Cost-effectiveness questions more difficult to answer often due to an absence of alternatives

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ISSUES IN THE CONDUCT OF THE EVALUATION

GRPP Members

• Diversity and multiplicity– More consultation, more participation,

increased time requirements – Diverse expectations about the deliverables

• Power shifts– Participation of large Foundations creates a

new dynamics amongst the membership– Need to ensure that actual inbalance is not

reflected in the evaluation• Effects of turnover

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GRPP Members

• Reporting evaluation results to members who are– Host– Member– Donor– Partner– Beneficiary

• Potential conflict of roles, or goal displacement?

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GOVERNANC E ISSUES: FRAMEWORKS UNDERLYING GRPP EVALUATIONS

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Structural Complexity of the GRPPs

• The GRPPs represent various forms of networks:– Association– Facility– Coalition– Platform– Program– Partnership

• Yet, evaluation of GRPPs draws significantly on organizational analysis literature

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What Do We Know About Network Evaluation?

• The literature on evaluation of networks and inter-organizational networking indicates that research has centered on the driving forces behind networks rather than on effectiveness of networks.

• Effective GRPP governance should perhaps be examined through variables and indicators from the network literature or the team literature

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• Assesses team effectiveness through several predictors of team performance – Cohesiveness– Size– Leadership– Motivation– Goal group– Composition

Team Literature

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• Assesses the effects of networks using several variables:– Social influence– Power– Social exchange– Knowledge Management– Social Capital

Social Network Analysis

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Conclusions

• Additional tools are required for practitioners

• Evaluations of GRPP requires sector expertise and experts familiar with organization, teams and network dynamics

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