Performance Measurement Frameworks

Purpose

Inner logic (rationale)

Diagram

Visual representation of the tool (not always available, but we should see…)

Inputs

Resources and skills needed

Outputs

References

External links to other uses of the tool

Draft:

The purpose of operating within the Performance Measurement Frameworks (PMF) is to assess INSPIRED results and outcomes.

Performance Measurement Frameworks are mainstreamed in Result-based Management in the non-profit sector. This enables stakeholders and donors methodologically following-up the progress of the activities and the social impact they are leading to.

Operating within PMF: initial stages

Along with developing partners members of the Host structures and Donors, practitioners shall develop Logical Framework using relevant indicators to measure the project's performances. Applied to INSPIRED, it involves the use of external indicators which assess the overall impact of the project (such as the ones developed by V-Dem), but also internal indicators assessing the specific outputs of Inspired (see template below).

M&E of INSPIRED projects

INSPIRED M&E methods seek to assess how democratic system-thinking operates, and how change is possible to be achieved. By experience, we figured that the Outcomes' Harvesting method suits best the evaluation of INSPIRED projects, because it focuses on the impact of activities on the overall policy area addressed. When complex and multi-stakeholder processes like INSPIRED are implemented, results can be of different nature, and achieved in informal ways. This mix-method evaluation method gives a large role to stakeholders' testimonies on perceived change, thus enables practitioners how different variables are affected by INSPIRED activities.

Indeed, this method enables stakeholders to collectively evaluate the relations between results and activities, achieving substantive results. The comparative advantage of this methodology is to include narrative reporting into the overall action for change, meaning that further policy-solutions will have better access to evidence-based materials mapping reform process-tracing. This also feeds knowledge on democratic support improvement, as explaining deliverables’ unfulfillment permit further reframing. EPD’s working group on M&E spreads the most recent findings and new approaches in order to maintain EPD’s standards in the field and to develop expertise relevant for different programming activities.

Different tools can be used to implement this M&E strategy throughout (from the very beginning of the process!), such as the multi-entry platform Knack, which has proven to be a successful way to deal with long-term diverse data harvested from INSPIRED activities.

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