Impact
Impact and Success Stories
Share success stories of individuals or communities that have been positively impacted by ACFO’s work.
- Highlight any data or statistics that demonstrate ACFO’s impact.
Discuss any ongoing efforts to measure and evaluate the effectiveness of ACFO’s programs and services.
Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning (MEAL) are an essential part of this project. In pursuit of best practice, the MEAL team was formed to monitor and evaluate program implementation on annual basis and throughout the project cycle. At the beginning of each project implementation phase, a baseline is developed as the basis for the MEAL Framework. The baseline is normally used for collection of timely and accurate information to measure whether or not the project is achieving some progress.
An activity monitoring forms (tools) are developed and filled before and after each activity. The information that will be contained in the activity forms included, among others, the name and nature of the activity, its aim and objectives, the number of participants in the activity, the location Sat which the activity is implemented, what the intended outcome(s) of the activity is/are, successes achieved or challenges encountered, observation and/or lessons learnt.
The activity monitoring forms are compiled on a quarterly basis, to give a preview of the progress that has been made and whether the initiatives undertaken are consistent with the overall objectives of the proposed action.
This will be in addition to enabling monitoring of the use of the funds on activity work and the ratio of funds spend on direct project activities to those spent on administrative/support functions. Through the compilation of the activity monitoring tools on a monthly basis, it is possible to ascertain quite easily whether there is need for any corrective action to be taken, to ensure the intended objectives are realized within the given timeframe. Quarterly reports are normally analyzed further with a view to determining whether the activities are yielding results at higher level, and or if the results produced are contributing towards the realization of the project objectives.
The compilation of the quarterly reports is accompanied by sessions held at the level of the individual programs to explore further the actions that have been implemented, the changes occurring or beginning to occur at the target areas, as a result of the action, challenges encountered and support required to address these challenges.
The feedback session is also identified whether there is need for change in the strategy and if so, the nature and manner of the proposed strategy. The outcome of these discussions will be reported, shared and discussed in the management meeting. The program staff will formally and informally seek feedback from target beneficiaries on the extent to which the interventions being implemented are meeting their expectations and what further action would be necessary to ensure that there is fair balance.
The organization normally puts vulnerable children and communities at the center of the implementation of these proposed actions throughout its programing, we seek in the feedback of every member of the community involved directly or indirectly. During our MEAL sessions, we organized focused group discussions into clusters of the children and Youths, Women with other key stakeholders to ensure that views of all beneficiaries are incorporated.