Welcome to CENFACS’ Online Diary!
10 July 2024
Post No. 360
The Week’s Contents
• July 2024 All-in-one Impact Feedback and Assessment (Level 1): Impact Monitoring and Evaluation of 2023-2024 Programmes, Projects and Activities
• Data Insight and Analytics of User-generated Content
• Coming this July 2024: Summer Festival of Thoughts and Actions with a Focus on Lack of Economic Opportunity
… And much more!
Key Messages
• July 2024 All-in-one Impact Feedback and Assessment (Level 1): Impact Monitoring and Evaluation of 2023-2024 Programmes, Projects and Activities
The first level of work regarding our Analytics and Impact Month 2024 is All-in-one Impact Feedback and Assessment. As mentioned last week in our July 2024 analytics and impact working plan, we shall have three activities within our July 2024 All-in-one Impact Feedback and Assessment; activities which are:
a) Impact Monitoring and Evaluation of 2023-2024 Programmes, Projects and Activities (Activity 1)
b) Impact Assessment of CENFACS’ Programme of Building Forward Better Together to a Greener, Cleaner, Safer, Inclusive and Climate-Resilient Future (Activity 2)
c) Impact Feedback of XX236.3 F Programme (Activity 3).
This week, we are kicking off the first activity. In this first activity, we have already started with Impact Feedbacks. These feedbacks are part of the level one of our July 2024 All-in-one Impact Feedback and Assessment. They feedbacks are about carrying out tasks in order to get the early results or impacts of the programmes and projects we ran during the financial year 2023-2024. But, what are feedbacks?
• • Understanding Feedback
Perhaps, the best way of looking at impact feedbacks is to define the word ‘feedback’ itself. To clarify it, we would like to refer to the quotation of ‘imperial.ac.uk’ (1). The latter quotes Carless (2015, p.192) saying this:
“Feedback is a dialogic process in which learners make sense of information from varied sources and use it to enhance the quality of their work or learning strategies”.
Although Carless speaks about learners, we are instead dealing with project users or beneficiaries. The feedback here is a process, a conversation between CENFACS and project users/beneficiaries. It is also information or indicative tool telling how we are doing in our efforts to reach the goals of reducing poverty and enhancing sustainable development. This information or tool will help to measure or get the impact of our work with project users/beneficiaries (for example, the number of people reached or served by CENFACS‘ programmes and projects).
• • Impact Feedbacks
We are holding two types of feedback: one from individuals as project supporters, beneficiaries and users; and another one from organisations, particularly Africa-based Sister Organisations.
1) Project Supporters’, Beneficiaries’ and Users’ Experiences (Feedback I)
This week’s Say by Project Supporters, Beneficiaries and Users will continue our Analytics and Impact Month 2024. Project Supporters, Beneficiaries and Users can start to tell us the experiences they have had with the programmes and projects we have selected to conduct monitoring, evaluation, review, assurance and analytics.
We are asking Project Supporters, Beneficiaries, Users and other stakeholders to provide their views using their own words rather than we asking them to respond to open or close questions. To facilitate the feedback process, we are using feedback tools or methods, forms and channels below.
~ Feedback tools/methods, forms and channels
To make it easy for them we are using the following user feedback tools or methods: survey, interview, focus group and observation.
To get feedback, we are as well employing the following feedback channels to reach out to them: e-mail, phone, online platforms, and social media (e.g., Twitter).
Their feedback could take one or two of the following forms: a response, an idea, advice (although feedback is not advice), a comment, an opinion, etc.
They can as well rate us and the service we provided, raise awareness of areas of improvement and identify actions to be taken to improve our performance.
To ease the feedback process and plan, we have singled out 12 initiatives from which they can pick and choose to provide their feedback.
They can give us feedbacks (responses and reactions) in the form of rating (numbers), statement (words), sounds (voices) and information graphics (infographics like charts, graphs, etc.). This Say is about how they perceived and interacted with the products and services we presented to them over the last 345 days.
Their Say will help to understand their needs, expectations and preferences while identifying issues, gaps and areas of improvement.
2) Africa-based Sister Organisations’ Voices (Feedback II)
African sustainable development projects (ASDPs) are too initiatives that we ran in the last financial year; initiatives that directly or indirectly aimed at supporting Africa-based Organisations or just advancing poverty reduction causes and sustainable development agendas in Africa.
These initiatives (ASDPs) were in the form of humanitarian appeals, fundraising and campaigns, advocacy work, project planning and advice, discussions under CENFACS‘ be.Africa Forum, guidance on not-for-profit investments and impact investing in Africa, responses to global crises (like the earthquake in Morocco, floods in Libya, conflicts in north-eastern parts of the Democratic Republic of Congo, the cost-of-living crisis, climate crisis, and polycrises), etc.
~ What we want to hear
We would like to hear the voices of Africa-based Organisations that interacted with our programme and project deliverables, especially the voiceless ones, so that we can know where things went well and where they did not. This will enable us to reflect their needs in future programmes and projects development, while improving the way in which we are working with them in general and tackling the poverty issue in Africa in particular.
~ Why it is important to hear their voices
Their voices are important to us since we can only help to reduce poverty and enhance sustainable development unless those who are concerned with these issues own the process by telling us what kind of help they need and how they perceive their own problems rather than we telling them what is good for them.
Like for individuals responding to our request, organisations do not need specific questions to provide their feelings about our work. They can freely give their feedback in numerical, textual, voiced and information graphic statements.
To facilitate this feedback process, we have selected 9 initiatives from which they can pick and choose to provide their feedback.
The selected 2023-2024 programmes and projects for the purpose of feedback making our Impact Monitoring, Evaluation, Review, Reporting, Assurance and Analytics are given in the Main Development section of this post.
• Data Insight and Analytics of User-generated Content
As explained last week, there will be three activities of insight and analytics, which we are:
a) Data Insight and Analytics of User-generated Content (Activity 1)
b) Data Insight and Analytics for CENFACS’ Programme of Building Forward Better Together to a Greener, Cleaner, Safer, Inclusive and Climate-Resilient Future (Activity 2)
c) 2023-2024 Data Insight and Analytics (Activity 3).
Let us start with the first activity of data insight and analytics.
• • Data Insight and Analytics of User-generated Content
This is about the analysis of raw and semi-structured data provided or generated by users and other vested parties involved in the delivery of 2023-2024 programmes and projects. This type of insight and analytics requires the use of data literacy and methodology as well as analytical skills. As scheduled, this analytics has started today the 10th of July 2024.
Before going any further in this presentation, let us briefly explain user-generated content, data insight, data analytics and what we are going to do or are doing in this respect.
• • • Brief understanding of User-generated Content
To explain User-generated Content, we are going to refer to Jose Angelo Gallagos’ online article. Gallagos (2) argues that
“User-generated content is any content that has been created, published and/or submitted by users of a brand”.
The content that Gallagos is arguing about can be in the form of images, tweets, videos, texts, audios, social media posts, reviews, comments, blog posts, testimonials, feedbacks, etc.
As far as CENFACS is concerned, we are going to carry out the insight and analytics of user-generated content during their journey to poverty reduction with us. In this respect, we are going to analytically process the content provided by CENFACS’ users, beneficiaries, fans, enthusiasts and audience to support CENFACS‘ brand or as they navigate the road to poverty reduction.
• • • Data insights
Data insights refer to the deep understanding an individual or organisation gains from analysing information on a particular issue. To add value on what we are saying, the website ‘datarobot.com’ (3) argues that
“Data insights are the knowledge gained through analysing data, generating conclusions from data that can benefit your business. Data are the input. Insights are the output”.
In our case, we are trying to gain knowledge through the analysis of data provided by or collected from programmes and projects users/beneficiaries. To do that, we are going to use data insight skills.
• • • Meaning of data analytics
To make things easily understandable for our readers and supporters, we have selected the following definition from ‘Master’s in Data Science’ (4) which states that
“Data analytics is the process of analysing raw data to find trends and answer questions”.
According to ‘Master’s in Data Science’,
“A successful data analytics initiative will provide a clear picture of where you are, where you have been and where you should go”.
‘Master’s in Data Science’ also distinguishes four primary types of data analytics, which are: descriptive, diagnostic, predictive and prescriptive.
We are going to turn to the above mentioned definition, primary types and other notions read within the literature survey about the concept of ‘data analytics’ in order to conduct the analytics of data or content generated by users of our programmes, projects and activities.
For example, we can use predictive analytics for data analytics projects relating to households making the CENFACS Community to intervene in appropriate time. We can as well employ data analytics tool like Microsoft Excel for data wrangling and reporting.
• • Data Analytics in Practice and Progress
We are going to combine information technology, statistics and the life of CENFACS over 2023-2024 to discover meaningful patterns in data. In doing so, this will help us to improve performance in terms of the kind of work we do in order to help reduce poverty and enhance sustainable development.
In our data analytics process, we are going to undertake the following tasks:
(a) Data mining: extraction of data from unstructured data sources
(b) Data management: creation and management of databases
(c) Statistical analysis: creation of insights from data
(d) Data presentation: sharing of insights with stakeholders through data visualisation tools.
Where necessary and possible, we may involve online affordable analytics programmes to help in this exercise. For instance, we may consider the possibility of using some qualitative data analysis tools (like NVIVO, MAXQDA, etc.) to conduct this data analysis work.
For those users who did not yet respond to our previous requests regarding any of the projects or events they took part or came across, this is the opportunity to share their content and provide their SAY or content or even data so that they can fit it into our analytics work.
For example, the users of Triple Value Initiatives (or All Year Round Projects) can inform us about the progress they have made so far. They can as well share results of collaborations and synergies across these projects. This information or data can be fitted into our Data Analytics Dashboard.
To sum up, user-generated content or data insight and analytics will help to provide actionable data insights and user trend analysis. It will help to review deliveries and analyse the end-of-financial year performance regarding work undertaken with users. The result of this insight and analytics will feed and align with the contents of our annual review 2023-2024.
To give and share your SAY or content or even data to help us in this insight and analytics, please contact CENFACS.
• Coming this July 2024: Summer Festival of Thoughts and Actions with a Focus on the Lack of Economic Opportunity
The focus for our Summer 2024 Festival, which is the 16th Event of this kind, will be on the Lack of Economic Opportunity.
Poor people have less economic opportunities than others to achieve various outcomes in their life. CENFACS’ Summer 2024 Festival will look at the state of economic opportunity and concentrate on how to expand economic opportunities and possibilities with and for poor people. To do that one may need to understand economic opportunity.
• • What is Economic Opportunity?
According to ‘economics11.com’ (5),
“Economic opportunity is the situation that makes it possible to achieve something desired or necessary, or the possibility of doing so”.
From this definition, it can be argued that people experienced lack of economic opportunity are those undergoing the following situations:
no access to labour market; no resources and technologies to improve their lives; no means to develop new skills and competencies; being financially excluded; no gender equality; no equal access to economic opportunities for women; no access to credit, assets, productive resources and digital technologies; etc.
CENFACS’ Summer 2024 Festival will discuss the above-mentioned situations, in particular it will try to look at what can be done to enable economic achievements for the people in need, to improve the link between equality in economic opportunity and economic mobility. To be effective, the festival will raise issues and explore solutions surrounding the topic of the Lack of Economic Opportunity.
• • Dealing with Problems and Exploring Solutions Together
CENFACS’ Summer 2024 Festival will deal with the following problems that the people in need face:
~ persistent barriers to the realisation of economic potential and security for those in need
~ a number of issues (like the ones named above) linked the lack of economic opportunity for them/all
~ how pressing economic and societal risks are contributing to the lack of opportunity for those in need.
CENFACS’ Summer 2024 Festival will as well try to explore solutions to the lack of opportunity, in particular it will
~ prospect ways of turning this lack to the creation of economic opportunities for the poor
~ investigate situations that make things possible to achieve desired or planned outcomes for and by those in need
~ look at together whether or not poor people’s goals and needs are aligned with economic achievements of the time and if not, how to make this alignment possible.
Briefly speaking, our Summer 2024 Festival will focus on problems and solutions surrounding poverty as a lack of economic opportunity by exploring ways of reducing it and enhancing sustainable development. Therefore, this festival will also be of equality of economic opportunities.
This above is the theme of our Seven Days of Development in July 2024 or Summer 2024 Festival of Thoughts, Actions, Tweets, Shares and Spreads.
• • What Are the Seven Days of Development in July 2024?
The Seven Days of Development in July are the days of thoughts and actions against poverty; in this case thoughts and actions about poverty as a lack of economic opportunity.
These Seven Days of Development in July are organised around Seven Themes of Thoughts and Actions. The Seven Themes are not an end of themselves. Instead, they are the entry points in order to stimulate thoughts and actions.
This year’s festival will not make any exception. They will be seven themes for thoughts for seven days, one theme per day, starting from the 22nd to the 28th of July 2024.
We shall soon publish the daily themes and supporting information regarding this year’s Summer Festival of Thoughts, Actions, Tweets, Shares and Spreads.
For further details about our Seven Days of Development in July or Summer 2024 Festival, please contact CENFACS.
Extra Messages
• Data and Insight Skills to Manage Your Household
• Cover Basic Spending for the Distressed Children in Africa This Summer
• Holiday with Restricted Budget
• Data and Insight Skills to Manage Your Household
We are rolling out again our project ‘Data and Insight Skills to Manage Your Household‘. We are offering support about Data Insight and Analytics for Households to households making our community, as part of the Analytics and Impact Month 2024 within CENFACS.
This kind of insight and analytics will help household to better deliver a data user experience for their own wellbeing and wellness. To work with us, each household can agree its own data insight and analytical process.
Many households do this sort of exercises to understand their lives without sometimes knowing they are carrying out data insights and analytics. To better undertake data insights and analytics, it may require some skills. Not everybody has this sort of skills or can do these exercises by themselves.
• • Working Together with Households on Data Insight and Analytics to Run their Households
CENFACS can work with those who need help and support regarding the management of their data so that they can effectively and efficiently run their households. We can work with them on data insight and analytics matters so that they can be in a position to better understand data that run their lives. We can conduct with them basic data insights and analytics using the tools of poverty reduction we have in our box and our analytics and impact dashboard. The dashboard will help them to tell the story of their households through charts and visuals.
• • Extra Support to Households on Data Insight and Analytics to Run Their Households
Where our capacity is limited in comparison to households’ demand or specific needs, we can signpost or refer them to relevant data insight and analytics services or organisations that are available on the market and can be accessible to them.
For those members of our community who will be interested in Data Insight and Analytics to Run their Household, they can contact CENFACS. CENFACS can work with them to enhance the quality of their lives via the Data that Run their Household.
• Cover Basic Spending for the Distressed Children in Africa This Summer
Cover Basic Spending for the Distressed Children, Young People and Families in Africa is one of the Summer Appeal projects making the first part of our Summer Programme, which will be published soon.
The appeal is about supporting children, young people and families (CYPFs), in places in Africa where there is already high level of poverty, particularly in spaces where governments have lost sovereignty or control because of continuing and polarising conflicts and insecurity in some parts of Africa.
Supporting this appeal means helping CYPFs to minimise and mitigate the impacts of continuing conflict and insecurity on them. Your support will help to reduce the risks and impacts that the polarising conflicts and insecurity can make in terms of tragedy, intergenerational poverty, etc. Your assistance is required to respond to CYPFs’ distress signals.
One can think of a child or young person without any dreams and expectations, what will be his/her future, especially in spaces (like north-eastern part of the Democratic Republic of Congo) where there is enduring deterioration of security conditions in conflict-affected areas.
Can you help this child? Yes or No! If you say yes; then you can help…
√ that child to dream and expect a better life and future
√ end polarised conflicts to become a structural constraint and handicap for that child
√ stop endless insecurity to create lifelong adverse impacts on children and young people
√ halt children’s and young people’s lives being reduced back below the poverty line
√ prevent the lost generation of polarised conflicts to happen in Africa.
To make the above happen, support ‘Cover Basic Spending for the Distressed Children, Young People and Families in Africa’.
To support, please contact CENFACS on this website.
• Holiday with Restricted Budget
Need help and/or support to deal with restrictions on your holiday budget? CENFACS can help.
CENFACS can work with the members of its community to find ways of handling restrictions on their holiday budget. We can guide them/you to find help for restrictions removal from their/your holiday budget. We can arrange for them/you to speak to specialists around restricted funding for holiday related to vulnerable people. We can as well signpost them/you to organisations offering holiday funding service to those in need.
Additionally, there are charities and voluntary organisations that can help around holiday budget matters such as
∝ paying for a holiday via restricted or unrestricted support for holidays
∝ finding the right holiday for families with a member with a chronic condition
∝ finding a break and or respite.
CENFACS can as well work with the members of its community to streamline holiday budget processes and achieve better results in terms of spending by guiding them on the following matters:
∝ what to do with unused holiday funds
∝ how to use unrestricted/unassigned/undesignated/designated fund balance to help balance your holiday budget
∝ how to coordinate your needs of raising funds for your holiday and the necessities of accounting for the holiday money raised to be received
∝ what to do with unspent holiday grants
etc.
For those users who would like to dive into Holiday with Restricted Budget, we can provide them with online and print resources (e.g., a list of organisations providing holidaying support for those in need) relating to Holiday Budget.
For those users who would like information about ways of dealing with Holiday with Restricted Budget, they can contact CENFACS.
For those who would like to support ‘Holiday with Restricted Budget’ as holiday project, they can also communicate with CENFACS.
Message in French (Message en français)
• Compétences en matière de maniement de données et d’informations pour gérer votre ménage
Nous déployons à nouveau notre projet «Compétences en matière de maniement de données et d’informations pour gérer votre ménage». Nous offrons un soutien en matière d’analyse et d’analytique des données pour les ménages aux ménages qui composent notre communauté, dans le cadre du mois de l’analyse et de l’impact 2024 au sein du CENFACS.
Ce type d’informations et d’analyses aidera les ménages à mieux offrir une expérience des utilisateurs de données pour leur propre bien-être. Pour travailler avec nous, chaque ménage peut convenir de son propre processus d’analyse et d’analytique des données.
De nombreux ménages font ce genre d’exercices pour comprendre leur vie sans parfois savoir qu’ils effectuent des analyses de données. Pour mieux entreprendre l’aperçu et l’analyse des données, il peut être nécessaire d’acquérir certaines compétences. Tout le monde n’a pas ce genre de compétences ou ne peut pas faire ces exercices par lui-même.
• • Travailler avec les ménages sur l’aperçu et l’analyse des données pour gérer leur ménage
Le CENFACS peut travailler avec ceux ou celles qui ont besoin d’aide et de soutien concernant la gestion de leurs données afin qu’ils/elles puissent gérer efficacement leurs ménages. Nous pouvons travailler avec eux/elles sur les questions d’aperçu et analyse des données afin qu’ils/elles puissent être en mesure de mieux comprendre les données qui régissent leur vie.
Nous pouvons mener avec eux/elles le maniement des informations et des analyses de données de base en utilisant les outils de réduction de la pauvreté que nous avons dans notre boîte et notre tableau de bord d’analyse et d’impact. Le tableau de bord les aidera à raconter l’histoire de leurs ménages à travers des graphiques et des visuels.
• • Soutien supplémentaire sur l’aperçu et analyse des données pour gérer leur foyer
Lorsque notre capacité est limitée par rapport à leur demande ou à leurs besoins spécifiques, nous pouvons les orienter vers des services ou des organisations d’analyse de données pertinents qui sont disponibles sur le marché et qui peuvent leur être accessibles.
Les membres de notre communauté qui seront intéressés par l’aperçu et analyse des données pour gérer leur ménage peuvent contacter le CENFACS. Le CENFACS peut travailler avec eux pour améliorer leur qualité de vie grâce aux données qui gèrent leur ménage.
Main Development
• July 2024 All-in-one Impact Feedback and Assessment (Level 1)
Activity 1: Impact Monitoring and Evaluation of 2023-2024 Programmes, Projects and Activities
Last week, we said that the name of the July game at CENFACS is Impact Monitoring, Evaluation, Reporting, Assurance, Review and Analytics. In other words, July is the tracking month during which we conduct our Impact monitoring, evaluation, reporting, assurance, review and analytics of the projects and programmes we delivered during almost last 11 months and 2 weeks.
The following is what we have planned to cover this activity 1 of our Analytics and Impact work:
∝ Impact Monitoring, Evaluation, Review, Assurance and Analytics in progress
∝ All-in-One Impact Feedbacks: Tell it in your own words, numbers, voice and info-graphics!
∝ Summer Selection and Collection of 12 Initiatives for Feedback One and 9 for Feedback Two.
Let us summarise each of these points of our Analytics and Impact work.
• • Impact Monitoring, Evaluation, Review, Assurance and Analytics in Progress
We are still routinely gathering information on all aspects of these programmes and projects related to the above named period.
Likewise, we are assessing what these programmes and projects have achieved in relation to the overall objectives we set up for them.
Also, we are critically examining, reappraising or reconsidering our objectives and policies to achievements, and figuring out whether there is any progress or set back.
Additionally, we are trying to gain a deep understanding from analysing information on data we have collected so far.
Furthermore, we are making sure that the impact process is independently carried out and can help us to assess the health and viability of programmes and projects delivered.
Besides the above five activities (monitoring, evaluation, data insight, assurance and review), we are working to find out, interpret and communicate patterns in data in a meaningful way to the work of CENFACS, as part of the analytics activity.
Once we have completed the July Impact monitoring, evaluation, assurance, review and analytics; we shall proceed with impact reporting or communicate the findings to our respondents and any vested interested parties (users and supporters).
In meantime, we are inviting supporters and users as well as Africa-based Sister Organisations to engage with us in responding and reacting to the work we carried out together and to our poverty relief work in their own words, voices and numbers.
Their feedback could take one or two of the following forms: a response, an idea, advice (although feedback is not advice), a comment, an opinion, etc.
They can as well rate us and the service we provided or the work we did together, raise awareness of areas of improvement and identify actions to be taken to improve our performance.
They can provide a statement about these programmes and projects. Where possible, they can give information graphics (such as charts, graphs, images, etc.).
• • All-in-One Impact Feedbacks: Tell it in your own words, numbers, voices and info-graphics!
There are many types or models of feedback. In this exercise of feedback about the 2023-2024 programmes and projects, we are referring to impact feedback.
• • • Impact feedback
Impact feedback is about giving responses or reactions from the perspectives of users and African organisations by commenting on the programmes and projects delivered by CENFACS from their points of view. It is an observation or information, but not an evaluation from their part. They could describe the influence or impact these programmes and projects have on them and what they like to be different.
For example, if our users want to know the intergenerational impact of a service we provided to deal with the cost-of-living crisis, they can comment on how our intervention would have affected themselves and other generation or their children. Likewise, if they would like to get cyclical impact of the same service provided, they can provide information about the effects occurring in regular intervals.
From the perspective of impact analysis, we are going to establish a chain of causation or theory from the cost-of-living crisis to impact as well as to measure or describe the changes induced along that chain. Briefly, we are going to refer to cause-and-effect approach and to the theory of change.
We will as well be employing impact metrics and indicators. What are they?
• • • Impact metrics and indicators
According to ‘sopact.com’ (6),
“Impact metrics are a set of measures that help you evaluate the effectiveness of your organisation’s activities, programmes, and projects. They allow you to determine whether or not a project has achieved its desired results”.
The same ‘sopact.com’ (7) argues that
“An impact metric is a measurable variable or metric used to assess the progress and effectiveness of an organisation’s activities in achieving its intended impact. It provides quantitative and qualitative evidence of the outcomes or changes resulting from implementing programmes or initiatives”.
From our All-in-One Impact Feedbacks, we shall generate a number of impact metrics or indicators to help us find out if our programmes and projects have achieved their planned results or outcomes.
For example, we may refer to output metrics (e.g., the number of appeals we launched together with those in need in Africa), outcome metrics (e.g., the quality of life improvement for households that benefited from our Festive Structured Finance Activities), etc.
• • • All-in-One Impact Feedbacks as an opportunity to share and learn
The above-mentioned exercise is meant to enable Supporters and Users (you might be one of them) as well as Africa-based Sister Organisations to share with us and others the outcomes and learning experiences resulting from the use or application of the projects we have chosen from our programmes for feedback purpose.
Please seize this opportunity to provide your own lines of thought and observation for improvement, adjustment and development by sharing with us and others the outcomes and/or experiences resulting from the communications we have had with you and or your use/application or participation/support concerning the programmes and projects below.
We would like to know how helpful, effective and efficient did you find in these programmes and projects, and what lessons, experiences did you learn and what can be done for the development or the future of our poverty relief work in coming years.
• • Summer Selection and Collection of 12 Initiatives for Feedback One and 9 for Feedback Two
We would like to inform you that some of the projects selected may have the same title like the year before. However, the focus and contents for this year and each year are completely different. In other words, what matters is not the title of the project or programme, but what is inside them or their insight.
As part of our feedback action plan, we have selected the following programmes and projects for Feedback I and II.
Feedback I: Projects and Programmes for Feedback from Individuals (Supporters and Users’ Experiences)
There are 12 selected initiatives for Feedback I as follows:
1) Summer 2023 Festival with a Focus on Financial Inclusion to Improve the Quality of Poor People’s Lives
2) August 2023 Trending Activities of Following the Direction of Poverty Reduction through Marine and Coastal Ecosystem Services
3) Data and Insight Skills to Manage Your Household
4) Grey Spaces-focused and Spacing Analysis to Reduce Poverty
5) “A la une” Campaign with an Emphasis on the Safeguard of Critically Endangered Insects and Invertebrates
6) Self-efficacy Skills to Refresh Ways of Tackling Crises
7) Financial Controls 2024 for Households
8) Matching Organisation-Investor Programme
9) Tricennium
10) Financial Resilience Programme for Households
11) Systemic Resilience Capacity Rebuilding Project for Households
12) African Children’s Climate, Nature & Sustainable Development Goals with a Focus on Coming out Crises with Children.
Feedback II: Projects and Programmes for Feedback from Organisations (Africa-based Sister Organisations’ Voices)
We have selected 9 initiatives for Feedback II as follows:
1) Libya-Morocco Joint Influence Appeal
2) 2023-2024 Discussions on Africa Matters held within CENFACS’ be.Africa Forum
3) Support Children Impacted by Crisis in Africa
4) Giving Hope for the Humanitarian Needy of the Democratic Republic of Congo in 2024
5) Halving Child Poverty in the G5 Sahel
6) Lighting a Blaze of Hope for the Rain-Hit and Food Insecure in Chad, Congo and the Democratic Republic of Congo
7) Burundi’s Flood Victims Ask for Your Aid
8) Africa Not-for-profit Investment 2024
9) Conflict- and Natural Disaster-related Internally Displaced Persons in Africa Need Your Influence Now!
The above selected 2023-2024 programmes and projects are the result of a difficult arbitration in decision-making about initiatives to retain for both Feedbacks I and II. They may seem a lot for a feedback purpose. However, what we have done is to give to people and organisations the opportunity to choose or pick the one (s) they know or associate with to feedback.
For the effectiveness of the feedback, we suggest that people or organisations to pick only 1 or 2 initiatives to give their feedback. Also, it is better to provide an independent feedback, that is specific, timely, respectful and aligned with the work of poverty reduction that CENFACS does.
• • • How do you provide your feedback?
There are online feedback collection tools (such as survey monkey, visual feedback, type form, online review, etc.). For the simplicity of our Impact Feedback model, we would very much appreciate if you could provide us your feedback…
(a) via e-mail, text, phone, web comments or reviews
(b) in your own words, numbers, voices and information graphics (info-graphics).
Please do it by saying the way in which the above named programmes and projects have affected you or the people you recommended to use them or your organisation or sister organisation.
We would much appreciate if your feedback could be specific, timely, respectful and aligned with CENFACS‘ mission, goals and values.
You could rate (by using numbers or percentages or ratios) these programmes and projects or provide a statement (by using words) or even give a chart or table (as information graphics). You can as well record your voice and run a video or short film. This is aptly up to you.
Please remember, we can only help reduce poverty and do the changes we all want if you tell us what you think; not us only telling you what we do.
Please consider our request for an independent feedback and for your testimonial support.
• • • Need further information about the above programmes and projects before your feedback
Those who have been following the work that CENFACS does will be familiar with the above mentioned projects and programmes. They may not need further details about them.
Those who want to provide feedback and would like to request the details or summaries of the above selected programmes and projects prior to their feedback, they are free to make their request to us.
Thank you for considering our request of an independent feedback and for your testimonial support.
This feedback is due by the END OF JULY 2024.
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• References
(1) https://www.imperial.ac.uk/stuff/educational-development/teaching-toolkit/assessment-and-feedback/introduction-to-assessment-and-feedback/ (accessed in July 2023)
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