Between accountability and learning, the planning, evaluation, monitoring and capitalization of projects and programs contribute to their continuous improvement. All these learning practices allow us to draw concrete lessons from experience and to understand the processes of change driven and experienced by the organizations we accompany.
Cota initiates and facilitates organizational learning processes for social change actors.
Our 3 areas of expertise
Evaluation & Monitoring
Training
In order to strengthen the quality and impact of change agents’ interventions, we offer training modules in project cycle management (PCM), results-based management (RBM), change-oriented approaches (COA), evaluation process management and monitoring and evaluation management. We also offer other methodological trainings on demand.
We develop action-research approaches on major issues of interest to social change actors. These approaches are based on methodological experiments and exchanges between peers, giving rise to publications (articles, reports, studies) and tools (analytical grids, frameworks, games). The content of our consulting missions is continuously fed into this knowledge production.
Experimentation and knowledge
Our 3 areas of expertise
Evaluation & Monitoring
Between accountability and learning, the planning, evaluation, monitoring and capitalization of projects and programs contribute to their continuous improvement. All these learning practices allow us to draw concrete lessons from experience and to understand the processes of change driven and experienced by the organizations we accompany.
Training
In order to strengthen the quality and impact of change agents’ interventions, we offer training modules in project cycle management (PCM), results-based management (RBM), change-oriented approaches (COA), evaluation process management and monitoring and evaluation management. We also offer other methodological trainings on demand.
Experimentation and knowledge
We develop action-research approaches on major issues of interest to social change actors. These approaches are based on methodological experiments and exchanges between peers, giving rise to publications (articles, reports, studies) and tools (analytical grids, frameworks, games). The content of our consulting missions is continuously fed into this knowledge production.
Our 2 thematic fields
Citizenship dynamics
The strengthening of active and responsible citizenship is a central issue in the development of our societies. Alongside institutions and decision-makers, citizens play a key role in the processes of change. A large part of our missions and projects are based on the analysis, reinforcement or enhancement of citizenship dynamics. This translates into support for actors in the field of education for global citizenship and solidarity (ECMS).
Territorial governance and public policies
The territorial approach is an essential lever in the elaboration and implementation of viable and sustainable development projects. Faced with the complexity of local and global territorial issues, public policies represent an essential tool for initiating and supporting sustainable development dynamics. Most of our missions and projects are situated in a perspective of analysis, reinforcement or valorization of territorial governance and related public policies.
OUR RECENT MISSIONS AND PROJECTS
Fondation Chrétiens pour le Sahel – Support for the development of the pluriannual strategy
The main objective of this mission is to support the development of the Foundation’s 2024-2027 pluriannual strategy, through the structuring and animation of a collective and participatory work process that should allows to develop a general logical framework as well as the related narrative.
Implementation period: November 2022 – January 2023
Enabel – Final evaluation of the project of support for institution building in the agricultural sector in Benin (ARISA-B)
The specific objective of the ARISA-B project is to facilitate the process of transition and operationalization of the sharing of functions between actors in the context of agricultural sector reforms in Benin. The implementation strategy combines targeted training processes for actors according to a Skills Acquisition Path (CAP) approach, with facilitation intended to support the implementation of skills and consultation and coordination with actors. The function of the journal is to:
- Support steering;
- Contribute to learning by analyzing the development process;
- Ensure accountability to the donor, partner and internal stakeholders by providing an external assessment of the progress made and the results achieved;
- Analyze the impact and sustainability of the investments made and their potential for sustainability by national partners.
Implementation period: July to November 2022
Agence française de développement (AFD) – Support for monitoring and evaluation and transversal and continuous capitalization of projects financed by the “FISONG social, economic and civic reintegration of young school dropouts”
Through FISONG, AFD supports the testing of interventions specifically targeting out-of-school youth. The activation of this instrument allows NGOs to propose new ways of approaching the issue of the integration of these young people, through conceptual, methodological and organizational innovations. The Cota service aims to contribute to:
- Consolidate the approaches of NGOs by strengthening the methodological tools for project management and efficiency;
- Support their anchoring in the local ecosystem by facilitating reflexivity on the conditions of sustainability and institutional articulation;
- Facilitate intersectoral dialogue between NGOs and AFD;
- Bring out useful lessons for the strategic and programmatic reflections of stakeholders.
Implementation period: September to July 2024
Dynamiques de citoyenneté
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