Learning, and Amplifier Officers) and the Global Coordination Team members. As these took off, we quickly learned that there was a lot of added value in pulling in other key stakeholders such as representa- tives of country management teams, the Linking and Learning Facilitators as well as opening a space for engagement with grantee partners. These people were then invited to meetings held in quarters 3 and 4 of 2022 for each Voice team. Overall, teams held very robust and infor- mative conversations that helped promote cohesion around a shared understanding of the ongoing de- velopments in line with contextual shifts as well as program imple- mentation with a key emphasis on lessons drawn from the processes. They created opportunities for in- tra-learning and sharing of ideas for enhanced adaptive management. We will continue to work to enhance these platforms and explore other options to further promote learning and reflective action. Mutual ac- countability for mean- ingful part- nerships In line with the commitment to increasing mutual accountability between Voice and grantee partners, a decision was made to undertake annual feedback surveys. The aim of these is to bridge the gaps that currently exist as a lot of information requests are directed towards grant- ee partners, but the information cas- cading back is not always of equal magnitude. They are also supposed to be an avenue to enhance listening
and learning from grantee partners, taking note and actioning recom- mendations to enhance support to grantee partners. The first survey was administered in December 2022 and is set to inform engagements with grantee partners going forward. The analysis is ongoing and fol- low-up actions are envisaged for the year 2023. Collective approach to establish- ing finan- cial rigour The 2022 financial audit report demonstrates considerable improve- ment in our financial management processes, evident in the insignif- icant number of findings for 2022. Following intensive internal capacity building sessions at the Voice annual reflection meeting in July 2022, we introduced quarterly finance work- shops to jointly prepare the financial report. The first such workshop took place in October 2022 and a similar exercise was organised in quarter 1 of 2023 to bring together the annual financial reporting for 2022. The Voice programme officers are also actively participating in the audit process and teams remain on stand- by to respond to any queries arising during the internal and external audit. This intensive way of working has paid off in a positive result for both audit components.
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Rightsholder presenting as part of the Leadership Challenge Project in Niger
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statement development, peer review and feedback received from presentations is helpful in improving outcome descriptions.” PARTICIPANT IN NIGERIA Pausing and reflecting to ensure transforma- tive and re- sponsive en- gagements Quarterly knowledge-sharing re- flection meetings were initiated as a way of enhancing information flows, knowledge generation, and docu- mentation. In their initial design, the conversations were meant to be entirely between Voice teams in- cluding country team members (the Programme leads and the Linking,
ideation of the one campaign, one agenda was also to build the capacities of the Linking, Learning and Amplifier Officers to enhance their coordination and communica- tions skills and worked to reinforce the principle of Nothing About Us Without Us. Participato- ry Monitor- ing and Eval- uation as an integral avenue that promotes local own- ership In 2022, we continued to engage in processes geared towards enhanc- ing the participatory monitoring and
The analysis and finalisation of these statements is ongoing and further statements will be collected throughout 2023. The resulting reflections based on these outcome statements will then be used for in- ternal and external learning as well as amplification. “It’s a great resource to build capacity for partners. It allows us to reflect on the outcome of our work and to effectively show the behavioural change. Very engaging!” PARTICIPANT IN CAMBODIA
evaluation. At the start of the year, planning sessions were organised with all country teams to elaborate plans covering 2022 as well as 2023 to 2024. A key highlight among the activities conducted were the Outcome Harvesting sessions. We facilitated nine write-shops (across eight countries) that were joined by 86 grantee partners (including nine multi-country grantees) who wrote 112 draft outcome Statements. These sessions served both as a capacity-strengthening opportunity as well as an avenue to document implementation progress and key lessons emerging from it. These were highly appreciated by grantee partners, both in terms of better understanding key concepts around measuring change and the skills needed to write outcome statements linked to their work.
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