Working closely with partners, we invest with a rare mix of resources, deep expertise and on-ground experience, shaping social equity, working across SDG goals.
The Community Engagement team works with the objective to enable social development partners to understand and access local communities to be able to make impactful decisions and deliver services efficiently and effectively.
Their strength lies in their ability to Understand and access communities in different settings within the local ecosystem is key to decisions, interventions, and services; Duration and speed of optimal community engagements vary widely based on needs of stakeholders; and, Appropriate community engagement is a strategic piece in impact; cannot be done by tactical teams contracted on a short-term basis.
The team uses technology (like CommCare, ODK and SurveyCTO, Survey Solutions) to get error free information.
The team takes pride in having the
Highest in People Diversity, Geographical diversity, Data diversity and Domain knowledge.
Rigorous Data Quality Assurance and Control Packs
Pan India presence with more than 1500 network associates
Master Trainers with multiple language and adult training skills
Geographical location covered through project engagement - Pan India, Nepal, Srilanka, Bangladesh, Kenya, Turkey, Jordan and Cambodia.
They have established community level support systems for
Systems, institutions and facilities
Onboarding of people, service providers
Technology deployment
Disaster response
Operational research/ Action research / Proof of Concept
Setting up Projects or Interventions
Community mobilization and Campaigns
Reaching the most vulnerable to increasing access to services, creating demand and scale for interventions.
Identifying and collaborating with local groups, community leaders, partners and organizations for their local community needs.
Mobilizing vulnerable communities including women, children, people with disabilities, elderly or aged people and more.
Training and Capacity building
Certification support
Quantitative and Qualitative Surveys deployment
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Capacity Assessment and Performance Index (CAPI) for Community Organizations (COs)
Why
Internal - To con tinuously assess areas of improvement and strengthen
External - To understand the strengths, weakness and potential of organizations to partner with
What
Measures maturity and performance of Community Organization (CO)
Measures the institutional capacity of the COs in delivering impact and achieve sustainability
Composite score arrived from assessment of critical dimensions of institutional capacity
Scope
Community Organizations – Members, Office bearers
Other Stakeholders – Funding agencies, Banks, Financial Institutions, Business partners, Resource Institutions
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Village-level monitoring can play an important role in fostering knowledge and peer review sharing across villages in the same region (Gram Panchayat, Taluka, Zilla Parishad).
The ADI presents a new method of monitoring village development, because it expands the scope of understanding rural development– going beyond measuring physical infrastructure and livelihoods outcomes in isolation– to embed them within the multi-faceted context of SDGs inspired holistic development. Being able to focus closely on individual dimensions is an important way to find the aspects of village development that need attention, facilitating planning of policies. In other words, at a national level, ADI will provide data for policy planning and intervention.
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Why
Indicators are reinvented, poorly built and ds not stack up to larger goals
What
CMS has collated and categorised 2000 indicators from various sources for the following sector/topics:
Health
Primary Education
HIV
Adolescent Health
Social and Behavioural Change Communication
And others
How it Works
Indicators are organised on - Aspect, type, source, frequency, disaggregation, link to SDGs, ease of collection, cost of collection, numerator, denominator, description.
For Projects/Programmes working in this area, the bank has been used to:
Select indicators for M&E for existing proven bank
Understand how they link up to their RA
15 programmes have used the bank successfully to decide on indicators or modify them. Example in next slide
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We, in collaboration with PRAXIS, developed a self-administrable tool with the objective of enabling community-led organizations to measure progress in community mobilisation and its pathway towards sustainability. The COPI tool helps identify key areas related to administrative, programmatic and financial systems that are required to be strengthened. It applies a five-step process: Assessment, Analysis, Planning, Action and Monitoring.
The participatory characteristics of the COPI tool help Community Organizations in assessing their progress from a basic stage to a vibrant stage, which determines the ability of the community to own programmes and influence outcomes. of HIV prevention and vulnerability reduction. – context before this?
Please reach out to [email protected] for more information.
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'Geographical mapping method' is a method developed by us to understand the most vulnerable population.
Mapping refers to a process of estimating the numbers of particular populations to be addressed by the intervention in a certain geographical area, classifying the subcategories within that population, identifying the locations and availability of each of those subcategories in that particular geographical area, and deriving basic insights.
It employs clearly understandable and verifiable procedures that can reduce potential embarrassment, ensure confidentiality, involve primary stakeholders in the data collection process, and support researchers in securing the trust and cooperation of respondents.The process involves a simple interview methodology to collect data from the key informers (primary, secondary and tertiary key informers)
The key techniques used in the study are:
Clean slate method
Snowballing technique
Reaching saturation point
Triangulation
This methodology has been scaled up and used in over 800 towns and 35,000 villages in India, and across Pakistan and Canada. It has reached 628,424 respondents.
