Planning, Implementation and Follow up of a Participative Monitoring Workshop in Davao City / Philippines
AWO International e.V. is the international expert unit of the German Social Welfare Organization AWO. It was founded in 1998 as a professional association for humanitarian aid and development cooperation in order to professionalize AWO’s decade long engagement in Development Cooperation and its commitment to Humanitarian Aid.
AWO International aims to create and strengthen awareness about the need for international collaboration and advocate development work in the area of welfare provision to working people. AWO International is committed to work towards the betterment of socially and economically marginalized communities such as women, children, youth, the rural population, ethnic minorities, and indigenous people, refugees, and displaced people. It aims at enabling and initiating development processes in their own capacities. It, therefore, supports collaborative development projects which are engaged in improving the livelihood and promoting the empowerment of those affected by the humanitarian crisis in urban and rural areas. Special emphasis is given to the promotion of women as gender equality and children development.
The program is funded by the German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development and carried out in close collaboration with local partner NGOs. Within this program the Southeast Asia office of AWO International in Yogyakarta is extending financial and technical support to a number of partner organizations in Indonesia and the Philippines. Our strong commitment is to support the implementation of Social Justice and Ecological Sustainable Economic Development.
AWO INTERNATIONAL IN SOUTH-EAST ASIA
The program in Southeast Asia focuses on community development activities at present in part of Indonesia and the Philippines. Gradually, the scope of development cooperation widened in number and nature with project-based support to partners working on issues ranging from community development, organic farming, trafficking to child labor. At present, they are two partners in Indonesia working on project in Aceh and West-Java regions and three partners in the Mindanao region of the Philippines. With the year 2011 a 3-year phase in the cooperation with all the partners ended and a new three-year phase will be starting on 1 January 2012 and runs until 31 December 2014
AWO International in Southeast Asia and its partner organization apply the following project interventions as part of an integrated approach:
- Strengthening of Livelihood: Sustainable Development through Sustainable Agriculture, Strengthening of livelihood activities to promote local/natural resources; training to promote an increase in productivity and improvement of market access; activities to improve basic infrastructure.
- Child Development and Community Health: Empowering communities to take in active role in their children health and education as well as their own. Improvement of access to better nutrition, sanitation, health awareness, and medical services by providing these services through schools, clinics, and community centers.
- Protected Children Development and Education: Supporting equal opportunity to marginalized groups of children, women, and minorities through self-development. Encouraging to become stronger individuals by improving their skills and expanding their knowledge, thus reducing the vulnerability towards child trafficking, child labor, and child prostitution.
- Strengthening of social structure: Activities (capacity building and institutional support) to strengthen the organizational development of partner organization and to promote community-based organization.
- Support for the participation in decision-making structures: the creation of thematically coherent civil society networks and linking marginalized sections of society with government agencies/schemes (advocacy and lobbying).
AWO International in the Philippines
The Southeast Asia Office in Yogyakarta is currently working with the following three partner organization based in Davao del Norte, Mindanao City, largely in the field of trafficking and child labor.
TALIKALA focuses on the reduction of trafficking in women and children for sexual exploitation in the densely populated neighborhoods on the outskirts of Davao City. Talika provides consulting and training for children and young people (mostly girls and women), training for the prevention of child trafficking, as well as construction of child protection council.
KAUGMAON CENTER FOR CHILDREN CONCERN FOUNDATION support families with very low income, working children, parents, and children through providing education, training, and workshop on child rights and healthy development of children. The activity aims to reduce the involvement of children in heavy and hazardous work in Davao City and its neighboring village.
CHILD ALERT MINDANAO focuses on assisting local communities in establishing child protection networks and support mechanisms for victims of exploitation and abuse as well as develops capacities of children and service providers (GO-NGO) on issues of child labor, trafficking, and existing legal provisions.
OBJECTIVES OF THE CONSULTANCY
Each partner had worked out a detailed impact-oriented log frame for a 3-year phase starting January 2012. For the indicators in this log frame, they developed the necessary baseline data. To monitor more effectively the progress of their projects, based on the activities in line with the indicators in the log frame, a trainer will be required to design and implement a suitable workshop, based on the special needs of the participants. He/she also has to coordinate as a follow up the monitoring activities by an advisory service for the above-mentioned partner organizations.
CONTENT AND METHODOLOGY
A relevant aspect of the workshop exercises with the participants on different monitoring tools and instruments, as they are common for NGOs, applying participative methods. The tools and instruments should be presented, explained, and exercised. In workgroups advice should be given on the monitoring plans, based on the indicators in the log frames of each organization. All participants should have useful handouts at the end of the workshop for their monitoring activities in their projects.
EXPECTED OUTPUTS
At the end of the workshop, the participants will have the capability to draft a comprehensive monitoring plan for their program area. For this they will be qualified on how to create effective questionnaires, validate, analyze, evaluate and utilize monitoring data and how to produce an appropriate monitoring report based on the indicators in their logframe using participative monitoring tools. All partners will have worked out their own monitoring plan adapted to their needs and the specific project, partly with guidance from the consultant, partly by their own.
TIMEFRAME
The service is expected to be in two parts:
Part 1: Training Workshop
The Monitoring Training workshop will be carried out in Davao City/ Philippines. The timeframe is 4 days and will be realized from 18 until 21 March. Within these 4 days, knowledge transfer, exercising groups, practice sessions, and exchange of experiences among the participants are welcomed. From each partner organization around 3-4 participants are expected to take part. The total number of participants will be around 12.
Part 2: Supervised Monitoring (1 day for each partner organization)
Monitoring in the field with guidance of the consultant on Friday 22 March. Each partner organization will select his example area and will carry out its task with its individual monitoring with supervision by the consultant.
QUALIFICATIONS
- Post-graduate degree or relevant fields – development studies, education, or science.
- Experiences in project management, monitoring and evaluation in the framework of community development and social structure improvement
- Demonstrated experience in all aspects of project management
- Relevant working experiences with International NGO.
- Experience living or working in rural communities.
- Commitment to continuous improvement and quality standards.
- Willingness to work independently or to work in a team.
- Ability to take a learning approach to continuously improve.
- Commitment to maintaining the highest standards of confidentially at all times.
- Local context knowledge is a condition
The AWO Southeast Asia office expects offers the latest until 8 February 2013. The offer shall include a workshop concept and program based on the methodology described above, a list of monitoring tools and instruments including a sample monitoring plan in a matrix, the time needed in days including preparation and reporting as well as the honorary calculated per day. The offer should be sent to the following Email address: yunika@awointernational.de
