MOST SIGNIFICANT CHANGE Youth Focused Monitoring and Evaluation System

Monitoring and Evaluation What? How?

Key Types of M&E in YMF project Impacts Outcomes Most Significant change, Satisfaction ranking, rolling baseline, financial diary and evaluations Results Monitoring and Evaluation for program effectiveness Outputs Inputs Activities -Group quality tools -MIS -Satisfaction ranking Implementation, Progress/process Monitoring (Means and Strategies

M&E for youth Promoting true participation Giving youth voice to define and measure their own impact Making it fun for youth rather than making it theoretical and difficult Baseline survey needs to be adapted to capture youth related data i.e. floating youth, youth’s income pattern, youth poverty dynamics, support to the family etc. Adaptation is the key to measure…

Most Significant Change is… a form of participatory monitoring and evaluation a way to collects stories that represent meaningful and profound changes a systematic process that analyzes and selects the “most significant” story from ones collected from the field

When is MSC an appropriate tool? Projects that are… complex and produce diverse outcomes has numerous organizational layers focused on social changes that may not be tangible participatory in ethos designed with repeated contact between field staff and participants

Ten Steps to Implementing MSC Raising interest and getting buy-in Defining domains of change Defining the reporting period Collecting SC stories Selecting the most significant of the stories Feeding back results of selection process Verifying the stories Quantifying the stories Using secondary analysis and meta- monitoring Revising the system

Story telling… …is different from report writing! Beginning Turning point Resolution

Why is MSC useful? Provides a richer picture of what’s happening Encourages analysis Helps to focus on the key impact Uses a bottom-up approach without externally predefined outcomes Tells us about unexpected change Gets different perspectives of what has changed Specify domains to reflect changes in gender equity Self-identified by the story-tellers

Logical Framework ActivitiesExpected outcomes Actual Results Emergent outcomes story Reflection Process Revise Logic

Change Domains in YMF Quality of youth lives Leadership, participation and social status Sustainability of the groups as a collective force Other changes i.e. negative change or change not captured in other domain. In your opinion… …what was the most significant… …change that took place… …in the quality of your ‘change domain` …over the last three months? In your opinion… …what was the most significant… …change that took place… …in the quality of your ‘change domain` …over the last three months?

MSC cycle for YMF project 225 stories for 3 countries YSL groups 90 stories selected Field Agent 60 stories selected Youth Advisory Board 30 stories per year (10 stories for each country) Project Steering committee Feedback to the groups

Satisfaction Ranking PRA based tool increases high level of participation due to nature of the tool Measures both level of knowledge and satisfaction Youth identify the attributes by the degree of importance and level of satisfaction The tool provides youth perspectives on actions against gaps and helps youth to do self evaluation.

SATISFACTION WITH YSL FEATURES Attributes deemed most important to youth – Loans – Savings – FA/ CV support – Group meetings and rules – Social Fund High level of satisfaction with key features of the model and able to save and take credit. Some dissatisfaction (but isolated) with – Some CV’s performance – Amount of Social Fund contribution (decision making) – Lack of rules on penalties (discipline)

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