OUTCOME MAPPING REPORT
Based on the Workshop of
February 20-22, 2008
CENTERING WOMEN IN RECONSTRUCTION AND GOVERNANCE PROJECT
(CWRG) IN SRI LANKA
The Team
Participants:
•Community Women-3 each from Moratuwa and Matara
• NGOs-2 from Siyath Foundation and 1 from Women’s Bank
• CWRG Project Staff-8 Sevanatha Staff and 1 from ICSC
• Government-6 Municipal Council Staff and 1 person from
the Department of Agriculture
Facilitators:
• Sevanatha-K. Jayaratne, Ranjith Samarasingha, Sujith
Mahage
•ICSC-Sumana Wijeratne
Trainer: Heidi Schaeffer of Rhythm Communications, Inc.
Documentation Team
ICSC
WOMEN LEADERS
• Sumana Wijeratne
• J M Niroshini
• Sajeewani Pavitra Peiris
• Chandrika Kumudini
Sevanatha
• Sujith Mahage
Municipal Council
• Cyril Greshan Weerakoon
• Hansani S. Semarawickrama
• Chamila Wickremasingha
• Charuni Karunaratna
• Asoka Dissanayaka
• Mallika Chandraratna
• Chamli Wickramaratna
• Manel Ratnayaka
• Kosala
• T Ranasinghe
What is Outcome Mapping?
Outcome Mapping or OM as
it is popularly known is a Tool
to measure the changed
behaviors, relationships,
activities and actions of
boundary partners of a
program. OM enables the
project team to continuously
monitor and fine tune the
project and reinforce or
modulate changes as part of
successful implementation
of the project.
Traditional lighting of the lamp at the Outcome Mapping Workshop
Workshop objectives
General understanding
about OM
Assess the possibility and
value of using OM in CWRG
project
Build participants’ capacity
to use OM
Vision
Community members meet regularly to determine goals and
actions for improving their living conditions. Working
independently yet actively participating with municipal councils,
regional authorities and international NGOs, the community
members build awareness and support for better sanitation and
environmental sustainability. Communities enjoy nutritional food
through urban agriculture and improve their economies through
better livelihoods, respecting religious values and traditions.
Community Vision Through Art
Vision drawings made by workshop participants
Mission
Through organizing and empowering grass roots women
to build self reliance and environmental stewardship, and
engaging women in improving sanitary and infrastructure
services, the CWRG project will change the attitudes and
behaviors of communities and build the relationship
among women and service providing national and
international, government and non governmental
organizations to improve their knowledge and skills and
net working capabilities aimed at reaching their goals.
Boundary partners
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Women’s society (WS)
Municipal council
Sevanatha /ICSC
Women’s bank
Agriculture dept.
Divisional secretariat
Housing authority
Dept. of health
Religious leaders
Workshop Attendees
Best possible behavioral changes
of boundary partners
Municipal councils (MCs)
Women’s Societies
• Identify objectives of the Women’s
Society (WS) and adopt them.
• Maintain relationship with WS to
help them meet their objectives
• Gather and update information
• Plan, implement and monitor
programs with community
participation (PRA)
• Respond promptly to the requests
of the WS
• Efficiently manage time
• Build relationship among small groups
(Clusters)
• Gain trust of the communities
• Build mutual trust among families
• Build relationship with all community groups
• Engage everybody in planning
• Build trust and mutual understanding
among office bearers
• Organize to resolve issues related to
loneliness.
• Develop awareness about service providers
• Organize against patriarchy
Best possible behavioral changes of
boundary partners
Mobilizers
Sevanatha
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• Improve understanding of
community actions
• Continue building trust among
communities
• Monitor regularly
• Better understanding between
CWRG project staff and regular staff
• Engage community in monitoring
activities
• Respond promptly as needed
Identify community needs
Build trust among communities
Listen to community voices
Participate in community activities
as a community member
• Value communities and their actions
Best possible behavioral changes of
boundary partners
Women present at the MC
meeting
GROOTS
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Provides regular leadership training
Trains communities on livelihood
assessments
Provides training for CRC
management
Gives regular feed back on project
activities
Challenges for
Women’s Society
Organizing women into clusters
• Difficulty in changing community attitudes
• Difficulty of obtaining land rights
• Difficulty in obtaining support from men
• Difficulty in time management due to the involvement of many NGOs
• Difficulty in eradicating drug addiction
• Difficulty in obtaining support from different government organizations
• Difficulty of finding construction materials needed for infrastructure
improvements and resolving differences in viewpoints related to
construction.
Progress markers
for Women’s Society
Expect to see
•Monthly training on home gardening, literacy, animal husbandry and self-employment
•Increase savings of members
•Weekly labor exchange programs
•Regular religious activities
•Improve common herbal garden and herbal plants in home gardens
•Organizing events with programs
•Members of small groups meet weekly and discuss future plans
•Exchange activities on leadership, enterprise development, home gardening and waste
management
Like to see
•Increase members
•Consumer groups exchange activities (seettu)
•Improving participation in cultural activities (street dramas)
Women’s Society Cont….
Like to See (contd)
•Rain water harvesting
•Annual sports events/camp among sports clubs
•Community contracting and regular maintenance of completed projects
•Management of CRC
•Plan and implement activities that help build relationships among families and
small groups
•Tuition classes conducted for children (English , math computer and music)
•Women access service providers and influence them to get the services.
Love to see
•Women run the CRC with a profit margin
•Women get infrastructure contract from MC and other institutions
•Women organize local & international exchange and disseminate lessons
Strategy Map – Women society
Aimed at
boundary
partner
Aimed at
surrounding
environment
CAUSAL
PERSUASIVE
SUPPORTIVE
•CRC construction
•Supply materials
for community
contracts
•Supply equipment
for livelihoods and
urban agriculture
•Supply equipment
for CRC
management
•Training and
awareness building on
AH, UA, livelihoods ,
computer, literacy &
and management
•Exchange visits
•Engaging communities
CRC design
•Community contract
training
•Labor exchanges for
urban agriculture
•Land ownership
•Permanent houses
•CRC management
by women
•Women’s bank
branch
•Legal status for WS
and activities
•Livelihood loans
•Supply sports
equipment for
youth clubs
•Holding mobile
clinic
•Peer exchanges
•Youth participation in
women’s actions
•Training with MCs and
other partners
•Vocational training for
youth
•Registering youth
club
•Networking with
national and
international
(GROOTS, PLUS,
ClAP)
Challenges
for MCs
Difficulty in building better relationship with community
•Difficulty in time management according to community needs.
•Lack of human resources in relation to the responsibilities and the work load (Cadre
issues)
•Difficulty in allocating available funds on priority needs of community due to political
influence.
•Difficulty in gathering accurate information.
•Distrust among communities about municipal councils and their work.
•Lack of policy initiatives of NGO activities/operation in Local authority areas.
•Absence of long term sustainability of donor projects after the end of such projects.
•Absence of inter relationship among service providing institutions.
Progress markers for MCs
Expect to see
•Departments are aware of monitoring and evaluation of community activities.
•Available information is organized
•Ensure community participation in planning
•Hold regular meetings with community based organizations on their activities.
•Exchange and learning from other local municipalities on similar practices.
Like to see
•Council accepts community participation as a policy.
•Maintains and updates accurate information and records.
•Develops procedures for monitoring and evaluating community based activities.
•Adopt participatory process for implementation and monitoring.
Love to see
•Considers women’s CBO objectives as municipal objectives.
•Developing a procedure for holding regular meetings with community based organizations.
•Develops systematic procedure for meeting community needs.
Strategy Map for MCs
CAUSAL
Aimed at
boundary
partner
PERSUASIVE
• Identification of CBO • Engaging women in CRC
leaders and gathering design
information
• Training women in
• Appoint a women
computers
officer from MC
• Training women in CRC
responsible for this
management
project
• Provide computer
facilities for MC at
CRC
• Appoint coordinating
Aimed at
environment officers for CBO
activities
• Consult project
communities at
project design stage
SUPPORTIVE
• Registering WS at MC
• Establishing project
coordinating , monitoring
and evaluating committees
for CBO activities.
• Construction of CRC on MC
land
• Holding PRA/CLAP
• Networking with other
training for MC staff
MC,s to learn best practices
• Computerizing
• Obtaining the membership
information and provide
of PLUS network local
them to community
learning cluster
• Training on municipal staff
on project objectives
Challenges for Sevanatha
Difficulties in organizing communities
• Lack of interdepartmental relationship within Sevanatha
• Difficulty of changing dependency mentality of communities
• Short project implementation period
• Difficulty of building trust among community about Sevanatha
• Lack of understanding in reporting
• Difficulty in working simultaneously with two different communities
• Difficulty in implementing community requests falling beyond the project’s
spatial scope.
• Lack if office equipment.
• Inadequate power delegation and delays in implementation
Progress Markers - Sevanatha
Expect to see
• Identifies new leaders, trains and encourages existing leaders on regular
basis
• Conducts weekly and monthly monitoring meetings
• Allocates multiple tasks and resources over limited time
• Formulates different strategies according to the contextual issues
• Acquires CRC equipment for project work
Like to see
• Conducts interdepartmental field visits and review meetings at communities
• Provides training for feedback/reports expected from higher level officers
• Encourages women society to provide such support on regular basis
Love to see
• Delegates decision-making powers and responsibilities and regular
monitoring
• Develops as a gender sensitive organization with a long term vision
Follow up work
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Sujith will meet with the team and show them the progress markers journals of
the Sri Lanka Urban Greening Project
Hansani will assist Amila to type the Sinhalese version of this document
Hansani will also help Amila to type progress markers for all partners (WS. M.C.
and Sevanatha) into journals and arrange meeting with Sujith on November 1
Next review meeting will be held in May/June together with Sumana’s trip
ICSC will explore the possibility of getting additional funding for OM training for
Matara/Moratuwa MC staff and cluster cities
Participants/documentation team will fill the journals for the next review
meeting
Outcome of OM Training
Built relationship among
partners
The group reflects on changes and expectations
Women as resources
Workshop attendees