programme evaluations
insideout
has conducted a range of programme evaluations including
process and outcome evaluations. These evaluations have
been conducted in the following areas:
- Crime prevention
- Youth at risk
- HIV/AIDS
- Gender issues
- Civil Society
- Rural poor
- Income generation
- Training programmes
- Local government
- Alliances and partnerships
- Advocacy and lobbying
- Aid effectiveness
- Grant making strategy
development of monitoring frameworks
insideout
has assisted several organisations with the development
of their own indicators and monitoring plans in a participatory
and empowering manner within the following fields:
- HIV and AIDS related stigma
- Orphaned and vulnerable children
- School based care and support
- Gender issues
- Advocacy and lobbying
- Government Service Delivery
- Criminal justice system
web-based business performance monitoring
insideout together with its partner
Knowledge Dimension offers a web based software
solution aimed at assisting organisations to take their
programmes and operational plans out of the drawer and
electronically embed them into the organisation, in
such a way that all activities and tasks are successfully
aligned to the organisation’s programmes. All stakeholders
are proactively informed of the progress via real time
activity scorecards and KPI dashboards. Information
in the system is kept in context with the relevant programmes.
curriculum development
insideout has developed a number of tailor-made training curriculum,
materials and tools including:
- South African Management Development Institute (SAMDI):
- Developed and piloted the official
Orientation to Monitoring and Evaluation
course for roll out to thousands of government
officials as part of the capacity development
component of the Government Wide Monitoring
and Evaluation System (GWMES).
- Train the Trainer workshops
for future M&E trainers in the public sector.
- Introduction to Monitoring and Evaluation
for senior officials and parliamentarians,
Strategic Management and Monitoring
and Evaluation for senior managers.
- Firelight Foundation:
- Developed and piloted a course in
Monitoring for Development
and conducted the training in Malawi, Lesotho
and Zambia.
- Design a follow-up training
workshop in Research Methods for Monitoring
to assist organisations in developing appropriate
and relevant monitoring tools to collect data.
training
As of June 2008 insideout
has conducted M&E training for participants from a variety of African organisation including:
- 57 non profit organisations
- 12 funding organisations
- 6 research institutions
- 54 workshops for government departments reaching
over a thousand public sector officials
In addition to conducting training in monitoring and
evaluations, many evaluations have included a training
or capacity building component in monitoring.
