KM4Dev Learning and Monitoring news

Dear all,

First of all, I would like to thank you all very much for responding to the KM4Dev survey we sent around a while back. We received 141 responses, which is about 10% of this community (at least looking at the amount of mailing list members).

With this email I also wanted to update you on the activities regarding Learning and Monitoring (L&M), as we kindly asked for your participation in some groups related to this work. For the record: The IFAD-supported plan of activities for KM4Dev 2012-2013 includes monitoring and evaluation, formulated as 'Learning and Monitoring' (L&M) to emphasise the importance of learning from the activities funded, for the KM4Dev community, IFAD and beyond.

So what's happening?

We are currently processing survey results and should come back to you in the next 2 to 3 weeks with some analysis report introducing the results and some recommendations for KM4Dev;
We asked if anyone would like to join our advisory 'tiger team' and four people stepped up (Valerie Brown, Melissa Bator, Brenda Bucelli and Peter Bury) - we suggest you simply join our Learning and Monitoring team and will send you a separate email about this;
We asked if anyone would like to join our baseline focus group and one person stepped up (Mark Hammersley) - we decided, in our L&M group, to not have a focus group and rather carry out another survey like the one you recently filled in the first quarter of next year;
Perhaps we missed some interest among you - then please let us know in the next 2-3 days as we need to move on with this work;
From now on, we will basically review the planned work that is carried out under the IFAD-funded programme and will conduct short after-action reviews and analyses of activities with the people that instigated these activities. As and when, we might carry out additional L&M activities but we aim at keeping it simple and manageable for all of us.
We will document all our activities in a transparent way on the KM4Dev wiki: http://wiki.km4dev.org/Documenting_the_L%26M_work

We hope this informs you sufficiently about our plans - you can always come back to us for further information about any issue related to learning and monitoring work.

Cheers,

Bertha, Ewen, Simone, Sophie, Willem (the current L&M group)