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Global Team MeetingAll Staff Briefing
Sarah Degnan KambouNovember 4, 2010
Global Team Meeting 2010
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Overview
1. Goals & objectives
2. Facts, figures & implications
3. The essentials: Synergies, partners & performance
4. Next steps
Overview
1. Goals & objectives
2. Facts, figures & implications
3. The essentials: Synergies, partners & performance
4. Next steps
Our goals & objectives for GTM were straightforward, but ambitious….
1. Reconnect & share ideas
2. Explore in greater depth planks of the platform
3. Develop 3 year goals for each portfolio:
GVR
STIGMA
Gender & HIV
ECON
Population
ARO
The 2011-2014 strategic plan will:
• Cover a 3 year time frame
• Focus on institutional impact
• Four strategic goals: research & programs; communications & advocacy; operations; UR fundraising
• Framework and format of the last plan
• Relevant VPs will lead development of struts
3 year goals ofeach portfolio
Objectives reflect elements of five planks
in new platform
Research & Programs
How to raise visibility and impact of
research findings?
How should programsIntersect with
advocacy?
What marketing support is needed ?
Communications & Advocacy
What global support services are necessary
to ensure seamlessoperations?
What resources willbe required for success?
What infrastructure needs to be in place?
Operations
What tactics and
relationships need to be built to develop a
reliable pool of unrestricted
funds?
UR Fundraising
….and designed to set up our strategic planning exercise.
Overview
1. Goals & objectives
2. Facts, figures & implications
3. The essentials: Synergies, partners & performance
4. Next steps
PROGRAM OF RESEARCH
The platform
STRONGER FOCUS ON PARTNERS
GLOBAL PRESENCE
SITES FOR INTENSIVE LEARNING & ACTION
RESEARCH = PROCESS OF SOCIAL CHANGE
Ties learningto impact
Every piece of work we undertake has to contribute to our mission, be guided by portfolio focus, explore the constraints women & girls face, and offer solutions to improve their lives
We will be selective about whom we work with, deepening relation-ships that are beneficial in terms of influence, impact & learning
Mumbai is the model. We want to identify 2 other locations and begin to build a pipeline of work that will allow us to commit to those communities
We’ll deepen our existing footprint so that our current investments are consoli-dated before developingmore markets
At ICRW, research is pre-dominantly a participatory process, conducted in close collaboration with people and communities, seeking to build understanding and an evidence base to address barriers to gender equality and social and economic development.
Maximizes the contribution of each portfolio
Builds on our history
Deepens our rootsIn communities
Allows us to catch our breath
Significant change in ICRW’s By-laws
Approved by the Board of Directors on October 29, 2010:
Article III Purposes
In furtherance of these purposes, the Corporation will perform the following functions relating primarily to improving the productivity and incomes of poor women and otherwise broadening women’s opportunities worldwide: development assistance, including technical assistance in fields such as agriculture, nutrition, education and training, small enterprise development, and housing, among others; policy research that investigates women’s participation in national development; and public education that improves the understanding of women’s contribution to development.
Asia Regional Office
FY2005-FY2010
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500
1,000
1,500
2,000
2,500
3,000
3,500
FY2005 FY 2006 FY 2007 FY 2008 FY 2009 FY 2010 FY 2011
Program Unrestricted G&A
ARO Econ GVR
Gender & HIV
RI2 Stigma
Current projects by regional office/portfolio and donor type
A large proportion of our total portfolio consist of projects less than $50k
3 4 %
3 4 %
2 9 %
2 9 %
3 9 %
1 9 %
3 4 %
1 2 %
2 0%
1 1 %
1 6 %
9 %
2 9 %
2 0%
2 8 %
1 9 %
1 7 %
2 9 %
2 0%
1 9 %
1 3 %
6 %
1 0%
1 1 %
3 %
0% 2 0% 4 0% 6 0% 8 0% 1 00%
F Y 2 006
F Y 2 007
F Y 2 008
F Y 2 009
F Y 2 01 0
LESS THAN 50k 50=> & <100k 100=> & <200K 200K=> & <500K 500K=> & <1M
Project Size Trends
This needs to be examined
•Create & implement better
solutions
•Mobilize more resources
•Wield power & influence
•Broadcast problems, options,
& solutions
•Develop better knowledge &
evidence
•Support ICRW
• Effective, path breaking
interventions
•Consolidated grassroots
strength/pressure for change
•Increased political & social will & commitment
•More money
•Knowledge or paradigm shift in the
field
•Flourishing ICRW
ICRW produces,
mobilizes, and channels
knowledge, information, and ideas to make gender
and development efforts more
effective
•Implementers, entrepreneurs
•Activists, civil society,
advocates,champions
•Women, men communities
•Funders,influentials,
private sector
•Governments,policymakers,
bilaterals,multilaterals
•Researchers,evaluators
What We DoFor
(and with)Whom
What They/We Do
Leading to Outcome
Who We AreAchieving Final Goal
Improvements to women’s wellbeing,
empowerment, gender
equality, and poverty
reduction
Direct Impact Mostly Indirect Impact
•Provide tools, TA, capacity building
•Provide strategy, advice, analysis
•Design & develop programs
• Generate findings, results, evidence
•Disseminate, convene,
communicate
• Participate in networks,
partnerships
•Sustain and build ICRW
Modified “theory of change”/Logic Model
Was itsuccessful?How can we do it better?(Evaluation)
How to scale up intervention?
(dissemination,advocacy)
what are the key problems?What are risk factors?
(Critical issues analysis)
Possible solutions?How will we measure
success?(Program design)
How is the work going?Are we reaching our goals?
(monitoring)
Research and action are part of the same process
Transformations in Gender Relations:(shifts in gendered institutions and norms)
•Societal shifts in control of sexuality and reproduction •Changes in the labor force structure, economic systems•Shifts in marriage family functions, roles, power relations
•Changes in political systems
Women’s Empowerment:(agency on strategic life choices)•Self-confidence & self-efficacy
•Access to and control over household resources & life events
•Access to employment and income generation opportunities
Well-Being:(welfare outcomes)•Health, nutrition, income, life span
Measuring our impact
BENEFITS TO WOMEN
Transformations in Gender Relations:(shifts in gendered institutions and norms)
Societal shifts in control of sexuality and reproduction Changes in the labor force structure, economic systemsShifts in marriage family functions, roles, power relations
Changes in political systems
Women’s Empowerment:(agency on strategic life choices)
Self-confidence & self-efficacyAccess to and control over household
resources & life eventsAccess to employment and
income generation opportunities
Well-Being:(welfare outcomes)
health, nutrition,income,life span
BENEFITS TO WOMEN
Mission?
Institutional Impact?
Thematic Impact?
An ecological framework for understandingand achieving impact
IndividualRelationship
CommunitySociety
“Less is more.”
Project Activities
Non project Activities
ICRW’s projects and activities are housed within diamonds; streams of work emerge as cross-institutional themes.
Project Activities
Non project Activities
To achieve institutional impact, we need to consolidate our program of research, focusing resources on essential research and advocacy that will advance ICRW’s mission.
Overview
1. Goals & objectives
2. Facts, figures & implications
3. The essentials: Synergies, partners & performance
4. Next steps
Addressing how to increase intra-institutional synergies
• Synergies between programs and operations
• Synergies between programs and ERG
• Synergies among portfolios and regional programs
Partners are critical to ICRW’s work, however the organization lacks a coherent and consistent approach for managing partnerships
Most partnerships to date are transactional, focused on specific
project needs
• Most partnerships with funders are driven by financial realities• Most partnerships with implementing organizations are focused
on specific deliverables essential to impact• There are some examples of broadening the relationship into
other avenues of impact (e.g. access to decision makers and influencers) that offer lessons on how ICRW can more proactively leverage its relationships with funders to achieve transformational change
The word partnership means many different things to different
people throughout ICRW
• For some partnership = funder, for others partnership = sub contractor to conduct research and for still others partnership = like-minded org with shared mission
• A common vocabulary will go a long way towards creating a more coherent view of how to better cultivate partnerships
ICRW has some nascent tools that could be the base infrastructure for a more proactive approach to
partnerships
• Portfolio strategies specify critical partnerships• Project database updates are improving the quality of
information about partners• Recently established Donor Liaison function creates more formal
roles and ownership for relationships with critical funders• This working group has created a forum for identifying options
that allows the conversation about partnerships to be organization-wide
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Portfolio: Gender & HIV
Main Objective: The mission of the Gender and HIV Portfolio is to reduce the spread of HIV and mitigate the epidemic’s impact among women and girls in low and middle-income countries.
Specific objective 1 (theme): Integrating gender into current HIV programs and policies
Outcomes Indicator Inputs Risks/assumptions
1) Conduct diagnostic analyses of HIV programs, policies, funding strategies and outcomes to assess their responsiveness to the needs of women and girls.
Completion of 5 country “audits” of UNICEF programs in high HIV prevalence countries to diagnose extent to which they are gender aware/responsive
Depth/breadth of staff expertise
ICRW reputation—UNICEF came to us, could have hired a consultant but saw our institution as a resource
Ability to hire good consultants in Southern Africa
“Research for hire?” Do we want to do more of this sort of thing?
2) Create and disseminate a knowledge base of promising practices to help programmers and funders understand how to operationally integrate gender into HIV programs
Completion and dissemination of compendium and case studies of HIV programs in sub-Saharan Africa that use two or more “gender strategies.”
Fickleness of USG funding—commissioned under Bush admin, completed under Obama. Dissemination, mobilization of knowledge stalled from OGAC
3) Strengthen the capacity of donors, governments and civil society to integrate gender into existing funding portfolios, guidelines, policies and programs
Conduct a Webinar for UNICEF country staff on how to diagnose gender responsiveness in HIV programs for children and better integrate gender into existing programs
Impact contingent on how well UNICEF follows through—possibility of more work with them.
We made a strong start down the path!
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Strategic Planning
Overview
1. Goals & objectives
2. Facts, figures & implications
3. The essentials: Synergies, partners & performance
4. Next steps
Next Steps• Finalize our “theory of change”• Advance our institutional M&E• Tackle ‘less is more’ proactively • Produce and apply project
budgeting guidelines• Organize task groups for
strategic planning process• Draft program & research strut
for Strategic Plan• Move forward with building the
struts of the Strategic Plan:– Comms/Advocacy– Operations– Unrestricted Fundraising
• Take partnership discussion to the diamonds
• Engage staff in SILA conversation during next Global All Staff Video Conference
APPENDIX
ARO13%
GVR53%
Stigma20%
RI27%
G&HIV0%
ECON7%
ECON34%
G&HIV33%
RI233%
ARO0%
GVR0%
Stigma0%
FY2010 awards less than $50k(by portfolio)
FY2010 awards $50-100k(by portfolio)
A few portfolios are “living” on small budgets
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