Title:
Development of PACS Monitoring and Evaluation Systems for the DFID Supported Poorest Areas Civil Society Programme (PACS)
Development of PACS Monitoring and Evaluation Systems for the DFID Supported Poorest Areas Civil Society Programme (PACS)
Start Date:
August 2011
August 2011
Completion Date:
January 2012
January 2012
Client(s):
DFID
DFID
Funder(s):
DFID
DFID
Location:
India, Southern Asia
India, Southern Asia
Key Contact:
Tom Newton-Lewis
Tom Newton-Lewis
Summary:
The PACS aims to increase the uptake of rights and entitlements by socially excluded groups in 120 of India’s poorest districts in the seven states of Bihar, Jharkhand, Madhya Pradesh, Chhattisgarh, Uttar Pradesh, Orissa, and West Bengal.
The PACS programme operates through providing grants and support to a range of civil society organisations (CSOs) working on issues faced by socially excluded groups (scheduled castes, scheduled tribes, Muslims, people with disabilities and women). The CSO interventions aim to improve the uptake by socially excluded groups of basic services (health, nutrition, and education) or livelihood options (Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme, land rights and common property resources, and access to resources for livelihood diversification).
OPM New Delhi has recently been engaged to design and build a Monitoring and Evaluation System for DFID’s Poorest Areas Civil Society (PACS) programme. OPM will be training and supporting CSOs to collect primary data, report quarterly on their implementation progress and annually on the impacts of their activities, using a Value for Money framework. The idea is to generate real time information to enable CSOs to improve their own performance whilst delivering insights on operational and strategic best practice. OPM have been tasked with developing tools, training CSO’s on their application, building a web based Management Information System as a platform for the M&E system and providing ongoing support and guidance to the CSOs.
The PACS aims to increase the uptake of rights and entitlements by socially excluded groups in 120 of India’s poorest districts in the seven states of Bihar, Jharkhand, Madhya Pradesh, Chhattisgarh, Uttar Pradesh, Orissa, and West Bengal.
The PACS programme operates through providing grants and support to a range of civil society organisations (CSOs) working on issues faced by socially excluded groups (scheduled castes, scheduled tribes, Muslims, people with disabilities and women). The CSO interventions aim to improve the uptake by socially excluded groups of basic services (health, nutrition, and education) or livelihood options (Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme, land rights and common property resources, and access to resources for livelihood diversification).
OPM New Delhi has recently been engaged to design and build a Monitoring and Evaluation System for DFID’s Poorest Areas Civil Society (PACS) programme. OPM will be training and supporting CSOs to collect primary data, report quarterly on their implementation progress and annually on the impacts of their activities, using a Value for Money framework. The idea is to generate real time information to enable CSOs to improve their own performance whilst delivering insights on operational and strategic best practice. OPM have been tasked with developing tools, training CSO’s on their application, building a web based Management Information System as a platform for the M&E system and providing ongoing support and guidance to the CSOs.