Intermediate Effectiveness Study
Partners of the Gender Development Project in both Kenya and Indonesia have been participating in GDP review workshops last summer in which we focused on the needs of the organisations and the impact the GDP having so far. Furthermore, all participating organisations filled in questionnaires about the lessons learned in the GDP so far. The survey gave an insight in the key concerns and perceptions of various aspects of the GDP, from its strategy to its management.
With the workshops and the survey, we wanted to analyze how effective the GDP has been in the last year. Effectiveness, in this context, refers to the extent the strategies, structures, methods, and activities of the GDP contributed towards the achievement of the main goal of the Project.
Proposal Process 2009-2010
The organisations in the GDP are working on proposals to follow up on their GDP activities in 2009-2010. This second phase of the GDP should be building from what has already been accomplished and learned in 2006-2008. It should not be a mere repetition of what the groups have been doing before. Proposals should focus on specific activities that strengthen good approaches or address problems, gaps or questions that emerged in the first phase of the GDP.
Research
Kenya
STOP AIDS NOW! has integrated a research initiative to help determine the impact of the Project on the women and girls benefiting from the local activities the Project supports. The baseline report has previously been posted on the website. Impact Research and Development Organisation, a research-oriented non-governmental organisation from Western Kenya, who we commissioned to carry out the research, will start the endline data collection in the beginning of 2009.
Indonesia
The baseline report for Indonesia is also completed, but final editing is still necessary. When that is completed we will share the report with you. Endah Triwijati, who is leading the research initiative for the GDP in Java, has in the meantime facilitated a refresher research training in October in anticipation of the endline data collection, which has in the meantime started.
IEC materials
Indonesia – Papua
Groups have made it clear they need more support for educating the community on the themes of the GDP in an integrated fashion. In Papua, Foker and MDM have taken the lead in developing a manual/toolkit that groups can use with their beneficiaries. The challenge is going to be how to ensure the manual is sensitive enough to the different cultures of Papua to be useful. Once the manual is developed, it is our hope that we will be able to adapt it to use in Java and in Kenya.
