CAPITALIZATION PROCESS

Maputo, 7-11 may 2012

Different phases of capitalization

Planning

Analysis

Formatting results

Characterisation

Description

Sharing

Knowledge management

M&E-Data collection

Facilitation of capitalization process

Facilitation is crucial for the capitalization process

What type of facilitation is more convenient for a capitalization process ?

What are advantages and disadvantages of internal or external facilitation ?

Facilitation of capitalisation process

Type of facilitator Advantages Disadvantages

Internal: team/implementation partner

•Knowledge of the issues and of the challenges•Learning and ownership

•Too much proximity and links to the object of capitalization•Level of mastery of the process•Additional work

External: Consultant/ associate partners

•Mastering the process•Distanced look over the subject

•Weak absortion of the challenges and of the issues•Time availability•Cost

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Gathering of Information

Critical and fundamental element Continuous and iterative process Identification of type and sources of

information (reliability and accuracy) Means and tools to collect information

Carriers (Porteurs): actors and testimony of the experience

Documents: reports, aide-mémoires from supervisory missions, evaluations, studies, press articles, project documents, research, iconographies (photos, images, etc.)…

Digital files: data bases, web sites, intranet

Sources of information

Text information: reports, press articles, thesis, law texts

Audiovisual information: films documentaries, videos, television broadcasts, radio broadcasts

Graphique Information: photos, dessins

Numerical Information: data-bases, statistiques, electronic platforms, alerts

Types of information

Life stories / gathering of testimonies

Surveys (interviews, individual and collective meetings, questionnaires, focus group) o Review the contents relative 1 themeo From those contents, extract the relevant

parts regarding the themeo Reference all elements selected, generating a

bibliograpgy according to the normes chosen

Data collection instruments

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Conditions to achieve a good data collection

Mobilize the actors: awareness raising about the challenges of capitalization, set up a mechanism and a circuit for the transmission of information, existence of a motivation system

Take into consideration the time available, the area of interest covered, and the level of resources available

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