OUTCOME MAPPING REPORT Based on the Workshop of

OUTCOME MAPPING REPORT Based on the Workshop of February 20 -22, 2008 CENTERING WOMEN IN RECONSTRUCTION AND GOVERNANCE PROJECT (CWRG) IN SRI LANKA

The Team Participants: • Community Women-3 each from Moratuwa and Matara • NGOs-2 from Siyath Foundation and 1 from Women’s Bank • CWRG Project Staff-8 Sevanatha Staff and 1 from ICSC • Government-6 Municipal Council Staff and 1 person from the Department of Agriculture Facilitators: • Sevanatha-K. Jayaratne, Ranjith Samarasingha, Sujith Mahage • ICSC-Sumana Wijeratne Trainer: Heidi Schaeffer of Rhythm Communications, Inc.

Documentation Team ICSC • Sumana Wijeratne WOMEN LEADERS • J M Niroshini • Sajeewani Pavitra Peiris • Chandrika Kumudini Sevanatha • Sujith Mahage Municipal Council • Cyril Greshan Weerakoon • Hansani S. Semarawickrama • Chamila Wickremasingha • Charuni Karunaratna • Asoka Dissanayaka • Mallika Chandraratna • Chamli Wickramaratna • Manel Ratnayaka • Kosala • T Ranasinghe

What is Outcome Mapping? Outcome Mapping or OM as it is popularly known is a Tool to measure the changed behaviors, relationships, activities and actions of boundary partners of a program. OM enables the project team to continuously monitor and fine tune the project and reinforce or modulate changes as part of successful implementation of the project. Traditional lighting of the lamp at the Outcome Mapping Workshop

Workshop objectives General understanding about OM Assess the possibility and value of using OM in CWRG project Build participants’ capacity to use OM

Vision Community members meet regularly to determine goals and actions for improving their living conditions. Working independently yet actively participating with municipal councils, regional authorities and international NGOs, the community members build awareness and support for better sanitation and environmental sustainability. Communities enjoy nutritional food through urban agriculture and improve their economies through better livelihoods, respecting religious values and traditions.

Community Vision Through Art Vision drawings made by workshop participants

Mission Through organizing and empowering grass roots women to build self reliance and environmental stewardship, and engaging women in improving sanitary and infrastructure services, the CWRG project will change the attitudes and behaviors of communities and build the relationship among women and service providing national and international, government and non governmental organizations to improve their knowledge and skills and net working capabilities aimed at reaching their goals.

Boundary partners • • • Women’s society (WS) Municipal council Sevanatha /ICSC Women’s bank Agriculture dept. Divisional secretariat Housing authority Dept. of health Religious leaders Workshop Attendees

Best possible behavioral changes of boundary partners Municipal councils (MCs) Women’s Societies • Identify objectives of the Women’s Society (WS) and adopt them. • Maintain relationship with WS to help them meet their objectives • Gather and update information • Plan, implement and monitor programs with community participation (PRA) • Respond promptly to the requests of the WS • Efficiently manage time • Build relationship among small groups (Clusters) • Gain trust of the communities • Build mutual trust among families • Build relationship with all community groups • Engage everybody in planning • Build trust and mutual understanding among office bearers • Organize to resolve issues related to loneliness. • Develop awareness about service providers • Organize against patriarchy

Best possible behavioral changes of boundary partners Mobilizers Sevanatha Identify community needs Build trust among communities Listen to community voices Participate in community activities as a community member • Value communities and their actions • Improve understanding of community actions • Continue building trust among communities • Monitor regularly • Better understanding between CWRG project staff and regular staff • Engage community in monitoring activities • Respond promptly as needed • •

Best possible behavioral changes of boundary partners Women present at the MC meeting GROOTS • • Provides regular leadership training Trains communities on livelihood assessments Provides training for CRC management Gives regular feed back on project activities

Challenges for Women’s Society Organizing women into clusters • Difficulty in changing community attitudes • Difficulty of obtaining land rights • Difficulty in obtaining support from men • Difficulty in time management due to the involvement of many NGOs • Difficulty in eradicating drug addiction • Difficulty in obtaining support from different government organizations • Difficulty of finding construction materials needed for infrastructure improvements and resolving differences in viewpoints related to construction.

Progress markers for Women’s Society Expect to see • Monthly training on home gardening, literacy, animal husbandry and self-employment • Increase savings of members • Weekly labor exchange programs • Regular religious activities • Improve common herbal garden and herbal plants in home gardens • Organizing events with programs • Members of small groups meet weekly and discuss future plans • Exchange activities on leadership, enterprise development, home gardening and waste management Like to see • Increase members • Consumer groups exchange activities (seettu) • Improving participation in cultural activities (street dramas)

Women’s Society Cont…. Like to See (contd) • Rain water harvesting • Annual sports events/camp among sports clubs • Community contracting and regular maintenance of completed projects • Management of CRC • Plan and implement activities that help build relationships among families and small groups • Tuition classes conducted for children (English , math computer and music) • Women access service providers and influence them to get the services. Love to see • Women run the CRC with a profit margin • Women get infrastructure contract from MC and other institutions • Women organize local & international exchange and disseminate lessons

Strategy Map – Women society Aimed at boundary partner Aimed at surrounding environment CAUSAL PERSUASIVE SUPPORTIVE • Supply sports equipment for youth clubs • Holding mobile clinic • Peer exchanges • Youth participation in women’s actions • Training with MCs and other partners • Vocational training for youth • Registering youth club • Networking with national and international (GROOTS, PLUS, Cl. AP) • CRC construction • Supply materials for community contracts • Supply equipment for livelihoods and urban agriculture • Supply equipment for CRC management • Training and awareness building on AH, UA, livelihoods , computer, literacy & and management • Exchange visits • Engaging communities CRC design • Community contract training • Labor exchanges for urban agriculture • Land ownership • Permanent houses • CRC management by women • Women’s bank branch • Legal status for WS and activities • Livelihood loans

Challenges for MCs Difficulty in building better relationship with community • Difficulty in time management according to community needs. • Lack of human resources in relation to the responsibilities and the work load (Cadre issues) • Difficulty in allocating available funds on priority needs of community due to political influence. • Difficulty in gathering accurate information. • Distrust among communities about municipal councils and their work. • Lack of policy initiatives of NGO activities/operation in Local authority areas. • Absence of long term sustainability of donor projects after the end of such projects. • Absence of inter relationship among service providing institutions.

Progress markers for MCs Expect to see • Departments are aware of monitoring and evaluation of community activities. • Available information is organized • Ensure community participation in planning • Hold regular meetings with community based organizations on their activities. • Exchange and learning from other local municipalities on similar practices. Like to see • Council accepts community participation as a policy. • Maintains and updates accurate information and records. • Develops procedures for monitoring and evaluating community based activities. • Adopt participatory process for implementation and monitoring. Love to see • Considers women’s CBO objectives as municipal objectives. • Developing a procedure for holding regular meetings with community based organizations. • Develops systematic procedure for meeting community needs.

Strategy Map for MCs CAUSAL Aimed at boundary partner PERSUASIVE • Identification of CBO • Engaging women in CRC leaders and gathering design information • Training women in • Appoint a women computers officer from MC • Training women in CRC responsible for this management project • Provide computer facilities for MC at CRC • Appoint coordinating Aimed at environment officers for CBO activities • Consult project communities at project design stage SUPPORTIVE • Registering WS at MC • Establishing project coordinating , monitoring and evaluating committees for CBO activities. • Construction of CRC on MC land • Holding PRA/CLAP training • Networking with other MC, s for MC staff to learn best practices • Computerizing • Obtaining the membership information and provide of PLUS network local them to community learning cluster • Training on municipal staff on project objectives

Challenges for Sevanatha Difficulties in organizing communities • Lack of interdepartmental relationship within Sevanatha • Difficulty of changing dependency mentality of communities • Short project implementation period • Difficulty of building trust among community about Sevanatha • Lack of understanding in reporting • Difficulty in working simultaneously with two different communities • Difficulty in implementing community requests falling beyond the project’s spatial scope. • Lack if office equipment. • Inadequate power delegation and delays in implementation

Progress Markers - Sevanatha Expect to see • Identifies new leaders, trains and encourages existing leaders on regular basis • Conducts weekly and monthly monitoring meetings • Allocates multiple tasks and resources over limited time • Formulates different strategies according to the contextual issues • Acquires CRC equipment for project work Like to see • Conducts interdepartmental field visits and review meetings at communities • Provides training for feedback/reports expected from higher level officers • Encourages women society to provide such support on regular basis Love to see • Delegates decision-making powers and responsibilities and regular monitoring • Develops as a gender sensitive organization with a long term vision

Follow up work • • • Sujith will meet with the team and show them the progress markers journals of the Sri Lanka Urban Greening Project Hansani will assist Amila to type the Sinhalese version of this document Hansani will also help Amila to type progress markers for all partners (WS. M. C. and Sevanatha) into journals and arrange meeting with Sujith on November 1 Next review meeting will be held in May/June together with Sumana’s trip ICSC will explore the possibility of getting additional funding for OM training for Matara/Moratuwa MC staff and cluster cities Participants/documentation team will fill the journals for the next review meeting

Outcome of OM Training Built relationship among partners The group reflects on changes and expectations Women as resources Workshop attendees