Welcome to CENFACS’ Online Diary!
03 July 2019
Post No. 98
The Week’s Contents
• Analytics Month with All-in-one Impact Feedback
• Summer Financial Information Updates: How to Manage Finances in Economic Uncertainty
• Humanitarian Appeal to Africa in a Changing Climate
… and much more!
Key Messages
~ Analytics Month
July is our Analytics month as it is the time during which we conduct the monitoring, evaluation and review of our programmes and projects. Through this exercise, we analyse what we did over the last 345 days, seize the outputs and, if possible, capture the early impacts made.
It is the time we review what worked well, what worked badly and what did not work at all. We do it by bringing all together the programmes and projects as well as activities that made the preceding financial year. This is what we usually call All-in-one Impact Feedback.
It is a feedback because we ask all our stakeholders to give their opinions about our work. We expect them to provide us with their reactions and feelings about our work. This guides us to adjust and redevelops our programmes and projects. In doing so, this gives us the opportunity to rebuild and reconnect with them.
For more on All-in-one Impact Feedback and CENFACS’ Analytics month, go the Main Developments section.
~ Financial Update: How to Manage Finances in Economic Uncertainty
This Financial Update is a financial aspect and part of our Individual Capacity Development programme (ICDP) resources and is meant to help with updated financial information and awareness conducive to reducing the lack of financial information, lack that could be a source of income vulnerability or simply poverty.
The resource provides a basic financial guidance, but not a financial support or funds for multi-dimensionally poor children, young people and families (MDPCYPFs). The 2019 Financial Information Updates resource is on How to Manage Finances in Economic Uncertainty.
What the 2019 Financial Information Updates resource is about
In times of uncertainty like economic indecision due to multiple factors, there is a great need to use all the available skills, knowledge and sources of information in order to manage household finances carefully and prudently.
The 2019 Edition of Financial Updates resource from CENFACS deals with ways of managing well our finances to deal with economic uncertainty or difficult times.
The Edition speaks about the types of scenarios that poor people may face in the context of economic uncertainty.
It then proposes the different alternative ways of managing finances in each type of these kinds of circumstances.
The Edition goes on in highlighting some of the financial techniques that one may need to master as well as the key financial and economic indicators to watch in times of economic uncertainty. This is beyond the economic news given on a regular basis.
The Edition finally covers the financial skills and capacities needed to well manage finances in this particular situation of economic uncertainty. In doing so, the Edition explores ways of customising these skills to the need and demand of the poor people.
More on these Updates will be released soon.
~ Humanitarian Appeal to Africa in a Changing Climate
We have already kicked off our Summer programmes with Happiness Appeal to support the Victims of the Ebola virus disease in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). We are continuing the implementation of the first part of Summer programmes with a second appeal, which is Summer Humanitarian Appeal to Africa.
Details of this second appeal can be found on the support page of this website at http://cenfacs.org.uk/supporting-us/
Extra Messages
~ Mid-Year Monitoring of “Quadranscentennial” Year and Project (Q Y/P) Activities
As our Q Y/P keeps progressing, we are as well routinely and systematically gathering information on all aspects of this project. Particularly, we are looking at this month the information we have collected and gathered about the activities and three Acts held so far.
In this mid-year process of monitoring or checking, we are studying what the data collected is telling us about what we have done so far as well as the direction of this Q Y/P.
For those who are associated with this Q Y/P as well as those who are following it, they can tell us what they think for the activities organised so far.
Thank you for your participation and help.
~ DRC Happiness Appeal
Our Appeal to help the victims of Ebola virus and those at risk of it to live in happiness continues this week. Living in happiness for them could mean many things. However, we can agree that ending Ebola virus in their lives and communities could be the most wanted relief. The other things are to be happy in achieving the key variables of happiness which are: income, social support, healthy life, freedoms to make life choices, generosity and their perceptions of corruption
You can support this Appeal by working together with CENFACS to deliver happiness to the victims and those at risk of the Ebola in DRC.
~ Happiness Budget for Poor Children, Young People and Families
It is always hard to ask the people who experience poverty, who literally have no income or income below the poverty line, to write a budget about their holidays.
Whether a poor person takes holidays or not, they need a holiday budget or simply a budget to plan their sources of income and ways of meeting their expenses over the Summer holidays.
The holiday accounts help to assess where and how much help is needed. Therefore, they need to do their income sums and build them into their holiday expenses or simply Summer expenses.
To discuss your Summer holiday budget, contact CENFACS.
Main Development
• Monitoring, Evaluation, Review and Analytics
The name of the July game at CENFACS is Monitoring, Evaluation, Review and Analytics. July is the month during which we conduct our monitoring, evaluation, review and analytics of the projects and programmes we delivered during almost last 11 months and 2 weeks.
We have been routinely gathering information on all aspects of these programmes and projects during the above named period. However, in July this monitoring exercise becomes more intense.
In July, we also assess what these programmes and projects have achieved in relation to the overall objectives we set up for them. The results of this evaluation fed back to improve these programmes and projects.
Still in July, we critically examine, reappraise or reconsider our objectives and policies to achievements, and see if there is any progress or set back. This review enables us to improve.
Throughout the year, we work to finding out, interpret and communicate patterns in data in a meaningful way to the work of CENFACS. We apply those patterns in our decision making process. In July, we put extra emphasis on this analytics which becomes very pronounced.
Briefly, July is the time we do our Summer tracking by reconsidering the value and relevancy of our work, let one the overall state of our charitable work. It is in this period of the year that we carry out what we call All-in-One Impact Feedback. In other words, we try to track or capture the impacts of our work by considering all the pieces together as one.
One of the tools we use to do our analysis is CENFACS Analytics Dashboard.
~ What is CENFACS Analytics Dashboard?
CENFACS Analytics Dashboard is an information management tool that tracks, analyses and displays key performance indicators, poverty relief metrics, CENFACS’ poverty relief league, etc.
It monitors the health of CENFACS in terms of the relationships of support received to outputs and outcomes generated.
It provides as well charts and summaries about some of the campaigns conducted.
It finally helps to retrieve information from CENFACS repository about the resources to help users and supporters.
For more on CENFACS Analytics Dashboard, please contact CENFACS.
~ All-in-one Impact Feedback
Like last year, this year’s All-in-One Impact Feedback will be extended to include our XX236.3F programme as we are in the month of Monitoring and Evaluation.
XX236.3F is our 2020 to 2030 to 2063 Follow up Programme. We are following the implementation of the International Climate Change Agreement (or the Paris Treaty), the Istanbul Declaration, the United Nations 2030 Agenda and Sustainable Development Goals, and Africa’s Agenda 2063. The four of them make up our XX236.3F programme.
In brief, we shall conduct a follow-up and examination, look back and analyse data on the overall projects and programmes delivered during the above stated period, while keeping implementing our XX236.3F programme.
We shall publish soon the progammes and projects making this year’s Analytics. In meantime, for any enquiries about the Analytics month, please contact CENFACS.
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With many thanks
