CARE SRI LANKA PLANTATION PROGRAM DEVELOPMENT PROCESS NOVEMBER 2010

WHY PLANTATION PROGRAM? 1.CARE was rapidly changing due to the changes of global development thinking 2.CARE Sri Lanka become one of the seventh learning labs 3.Changes of public and government perception towards INGOs 4.Critiques of NGO activities and their effectiveness

WE TRIED TO ANSWER BELOW QUESTION “What keeps the estate population poor and marginalized? What factors underlie or explain the poverty, marginalization and exclusion of the population?” 1.What are the changes that we need to make in the lives of plantation community? 2.What did we achieve? 3.What are the failures? 4.Are we cost effective? 5.Can we make this change alone? 6.Do we need to change our approach? CARE Sri Lanka decided to develop plantation as a first program

BACKGROUND TO THE PLANTATION COMMUNITY 1.1 million population who are the poorest of the poor – National poverty is 22%, 32% in the plantations ( Low wages, lack of alternative livelihood opportunities, poor savings ) 2.Violation of basic human rights,discrimination and exclusion from the mainstream 3.Poor infrastructure facilities. 4.Continuation of over hundred year old exploitative management system and yet captive labor force 5.Widening Employer –Employee relationships gap and resultant mistrust,conflicts and unhealthy living environment for the resident population 6.Low level of attainment in education resulting in unemployment in a competitive job market 7.Political exploitation and victimization 8.Poor availability of state and non state services in comparison with rest of the population 9.Plethora of social problems – Alcoholism, indebtedness, GBV, youth unrest, hopelessness, poor community cohesion and poor bargaining power

STEPS ADOPTED TO DEVELOP PLANTATION PROGRAM

Reflecting on programming to date and noting the difference from a program approach 1.Time line exercise to reflect CAREs plantation work from 1956 and its dollar contribution 2.Reflect plantation project contributions for plantation social changes 3.Review current project work with 8 program characteristics Identifying underlying causes of poverty and social injustice for the candidate impact group 1.Deciding impact population based on inclusion, exclusion criteria and their uniqueness identified by the participants 2.Conduct “drivers & Outcome” exercise

Plantation timeline

Agreeing the external assumptions and risks for future programming on this vulnerable group 1.Identify trends, opportunities, constraints and risks projected over the next 15 years 2.Refine and articulate critical risk and assumptions for following areas The tea industry Ethical trade practices (ETP), corporate social responsibility (CSR), and global markets Roles, responsibilities, and initiatives of other actors and allies The development industry, funding and donor environment The socio-political environment CARE’s work to date in the sector (and how it will change in the future) Deciding the impact group and its description; and the vision 1.Impact group: the population group upon which the program (CARE and its partners) aims to have a positive impact 2.Target group (proposed): a group of people who are deliberately engaged in the program as a means for CARE and its partners to achieve impact on the intended impact group 3.Agree on long term program vision 4.Further rationalizing impact group with available statistics and other empirical data

Constructing a theory of change to address the underlying causes of this impact group 1.Identify domains of change based on UCP and other analysis 2.Identify major milestone for each domain 3.Identify the causes and effects of these major milestones 4.Identify breakthroughs for next 15 years 5.Further review and refine above domains, milestones, breakthroughs with the support of CEPA Program dissemination and Implementation 1.Intensive dissemination process 2.Building common understanding among staff and stakeholders 3.Retrofit current work with long term program goal Define Program impact measurement and knowledge management system 1.Program is in a process of developing its Impact measurement and Knowledge management system