Monday, 18 - July

 

08:30-09:00

 

Registration and Information

 

 

09:00-09:15

Welcome and agenda overview

 

Objectives:

 

- Setting the tone for the workshop.

 

- Clarify the convening objectives and expectations from the convening from the perspective of organizers.

 

- Giving an overview of the agenda and introducing workshop principles.

 

 

09:15-10:00

Participant Introductions

 

 

Objectives:

 

- To establish an environment conducive to participation and openness in a relaxed but engaging setting.

 

- To mutually familiarize participants and their organizations.

 

 

10:00-11:15

Sharing community monitoring experiences from the field - Plenary Presentations

 

Objectives:

 

- To launch reflection and begin to develop a shared understanding of what we do using three community monitoring experiences that are varied, diverse and long standing.

 

 

- Introduce key terms of reference, key elements of our work and key lessons from a practical standpoint.

 

 

11:15-11:45

 

Tea Break

11:45-12:15

Sharing community monitoring experiences from the field - Marketplace

Presentations

 

Objective:

 

To provide a platform for practitioners to share their work to facilitate appreciation of diversity, generate interest and start dialogues among participants

 

 

12:15-13:15

Building a shared language/collective glossary

 

Objective:

 

- To explore what we mean of key working terms and develop a shared understanding to inform and facilitate future discussions.

 

 

13:15-14:15

Lunch Break

 

 

14:15–16:00

Community monitoring for social accountability – Basic concepts

 

Objective:

 

- To explore the importance of some of the basic concepts that define our work in terms of how they have influenced and continue to influence the contours of our community monitoring work.

 

 

16:00–16:30

Tea Break

 

 

16:30-18:15

Community monitoring for accountability – The road map for change

 

Objectives:

 

- To understand how the organizations define the change they want to see from their work and the pathways they follow to achieve the desired change.

 

- To understand the destinations of progress and the routes to travel on the way to achieving progress.

 

- To understand the assumptions, such as the final destination (the ultimate change), the context for the map, the processes to engage in during the journey and the belief system that underlies the importance of traveling in a particular way.

 

- To develop a shared understanding of the value of having a conceptual framework to plan and execute a successful transformational strategy.

 

 

18:15-18:30

Review of Day One 

 

 

Tuesday, 19 - July

 

 

8:30–8:45

Announcements and addressing logistical issues

 

8:45–9:00

Sharing community monitoring experiences from the field - Marketplace Presentations

 

Objective:

 

- To provide a platform for practitioners to share their work to facilitate appreciation of diversity, generate interest and start dialogues among participants

 

 

9:00–10.15

Community Monitoring tools, methods and practical approaches – Group Work

 

Objectives:

 

- To develop clarity about key factors of community monitoring, the types of work undertaken by organizations implementing community monitoring projects as well as the challenges they face.

 

- To lay the foundations of a shared understanding of the work we do, its basis, scope and limitations.

 

- To develop awareness about of the broad diversity of approaches, and the tools used by different approaches for enabling community monitoring.

 

- To explore common challenges and strategic responses.

 

 

10:15–10:45

Tea Break

 

 

10:45–12:45

Community Monitoring tools, methods and practical approaches - Plenary Presentations

 

 

12:45–13:45

Lunch Break

 

 

13:45–15:15

 

Context matters: Understanding how context influences strategy and identifying successful implementation strategies in challenging contexts

 

Objectives:

 

- To explore how contextual factors affect the perspective of community work on the ground, and develop a shared understanding of how organizations adapt to meet specific challenges.

 

- To develop a nuanced understanding of how convening participants develop and adjust their strategy in challenging environments, on the basis of their diverse and distinct experiences.

 

 

15:15–15:45

Tea Break

 

 

15:45–17:30

 

Measuring success? Identifying results and tracking progress in community monitoring strategies

 

Objectives:

 

- To explore in detail how participants understand success, how they understand and assess progress, and how they adjust to track it, and learn to monitor institutionally.

 

- To understand how experienced and successful practitioners monitor results and track progress in different contexts, facing diverse challenges.

 

- To explore what value, if any, institutional learning processes, monitoring and evaluation schemes add to community monitoring work.

 

 

17:30–17:45

Review of Day Two

 

 

Wednesday, 20 - July

 

 

8:30–8:45

Announcements and addressing logistical issues

 

 

8:45-9:15

Sharing community monitoring experiences from the field - Marketplace Presentations

 

Objective:

 

- To provide a platform for practitioners to share their work to facilitate appreciation of diversity, generate interest and start dialogues among participants.

 

 

9.15–10.00

Mapping of available resources

 

Objectives:

 

- To explore what knowledge and technical assistance resources are available to participants, and develop an initial reference list.

 

- To assess needs met by existing resources as well as gaps.

 

- To jointly explore the value of support for learning and assistance, and discuss alternatives for creating a learning community.

 

 

10:00-10:30

Summaries of collective experience, strengths, weaknesses and gaps

 

Objectives:

 

- To take stock of the discussions in the last two days and assess its usefulness for the practice.

 

- To deepen our shared understanding regarding the features, commonalities, strengths and gaps.

 

- To draw out key common lessons to inform and strengthen our practice.

 

 

10:30–11:00

Tea Break

 

 

11:00–12:05

Strengthening community monitoring practice – Group Discussion in a World Café

 

Objectives:

 

- To identify actions that can strengthen the practice

 

- To develop a shared understanding of the value of learning process for improving our work

 

- To explore the value of participating in a horizontal community of practice

 

 

12:05–12:45

Strengthening community monitoring practice – Plenary Presentation

 

 

12:45–13:00

Next steps and concluding remarks