Advocacy_Index_Q A.ed.pdf

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USAID/OTI Lebanon Civic Support Initiative (LCSI)

Q&A

OTI

Advocacy

Index

What

OTI

Advocacy

Index?

OTI

Advocacy

Index

evaluation

and

management

tool

developed

OTI‐Lebanon

(Lebanon

Civic

Support

Initiative),

used

building

capacity

OTI

partners

and

grantees

advocate

for

change

local

national

levels.

How

organization

given

OTI

Advocacy

Index?

Each

CSO

youth

group

that

receives

advocacy

grant

from

OTI‐Lebanon

evaluated

for

five

key

competences

necessary

the

implementation

effective

advocacy

initiative.

The

group

assigned

score

between

zero

and

six

for

each

the

competency

areas

and

one

average

score

its

organizational

Advocacy

Index.

Two

such

evaluations

are

undertaken:

one

soon

after

the

grant

agreement

signed

(baseline)

and

the

other

once

the

grant

closed

(post‐evaluation).

What

competency

areas

are

evaluated

the

OTI

Advocacy

Index?

The

five

competency

areas

evaluated

OTI Advocacy Index are: NGO Linkages and Coalition Building; Engagement with Decision

Makers; Outreach; Data Research / Utilization; and Policy Development. Evaluated are experiences and skills in those competency areas, not theoretical knowledge.

Who

evaluates

the

CSO

youth

group

and

what

does

the

evaluation

process

look

like?

The

CSO/youth

group

representatives

are

asked

conduct

self‐evaluation

going

through

set

questions

for

each

competency

area.

The

results

are

then

analyzed

and

discussed,

and

often

amended,

during

interview

conducted

jointly

the

OTI

Advocacy

Development

Specialist

and

M&E

Specialist.

How

the

OTI

Advocacy

Index

used

advocacy

programming?

OTI

Advocacy

Index

used

evaluation

tool

assess

how

much

the

capacity

advocate

built

grantee

over

grant

time.

This

done

comparing

and

analyzing

the

results

the

two

evaluations

–

the

advocacy

indices

for

particular

competency

areas

the

whole

organization

before

and

after

the

grant.

OTI

Advocacy

Index

also

used

training

needs

assessment

and

capacity

building

planning

tool

–

this

done

sharing

the

results

the

baseline

evaluation

with

the

OTI

advocacy

trainer

assigned

the

given

grant,

and

discussing

what

competency

area(s)

will

the

focus

the

training

and

coaching

during

the

grant.

The

achievements

capacity

building

and

possible

improvements

the

future

are

also

included

the

After

Action

Review

debrief.

comparing

the

planned

and

actual

post

evaluation

indices,

OTI

can

also

evaluate

the

effectiveness

its

advocacy

trainers.

“It is a great tool. I will use it in our organizational strategic planning.” – OTI grantee, after an Advocacy Index interview.

“OTI Advocacy Index will help in our work, something like this was much needed.” –OTI Advocacy

Trainer.

“Now we know where we are going.” – A youth member of a grantee organization, after an Advocacy

Index interview.

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