Introduction to M&E Task ForceM&E Capacity Strengthening Workshop, Addis Ababa4 to 8 June 2012

Arif Rashid, TOPS

Technical and Operational Performance Support for FFP Grantees

August 13, 2010 – August 12, 2015

Strategic Objective

Highest quality information, knowledge, and best practices for improved methodologies in Title II food aid commodity program performance identified, established, shared and adapted

TOPS Support

• TOPS Program Award: $20 million• Leader with Associate Agreement: $75 million ceiling • Small grants program: $3.4 million

Who we are?

Program Strategies

• Focused capacity building • Community of Practice:

Food Security and Nutrition Network• Knowledge management web

portal • Small grants program

USAID/FFP-Funded Program

Multiple collaboration mechanisms

• Technical task forces

• Technical knowledge sharing meetings

• Web portal (under development)

• Newsletter and email group

Three Program Strategies

• Food Security and Nutrition Community of Practice

• Direct Capacity Strengthening

• Small Grants Program

TOPS Program Output

Program Partners• Africare• ADRA• IRD• Land O’Lakes• OIC International• Project Concern International• Samaritan’s Purse• Technoserve

• Cornell University

• FAO• Inside NGO• Institute of Development

Studies• International Center for

Research on Women• Tulane University• World Food Programme• Worldwatch Institute

Priority Technical Areas

• Nutrition and food technology• Agriculture• Social and behavior change• Monitoring and evaluation• Commodity management• Gender equity• Emergencies

Who to contact?

USAID

Adam ReinhartAORareinhart@usaid.gov Judy CanahuatiActivity Managerjcanahuati@usaid.gov

  

TOPS Program Staff

Mark FritzlerProject Directormfritzler@savechildren.org Tom DavisSocial and Behavior Change tdavis@fh.org Joan JenningsNutrition & Food Technology jjennings@savechildren.org

Arif RashidMonitoring and Evaluationarif@tangointernational.com

Joan WhelanKnowledge Management jwhelan@coregroupdc.org

VacantAgriculture wfiebig@dc.mercycorps.org 

M&E Task ForceGoal: Improve the effectiveness of Monitoring and Evaluation of Food Security and Nutrition programs. Objectives: • Ensure that the priorities of implementing agencies

are reflected in donor guidance;• Identify and disseminate successful methods, tools

and practices; and • Improve monitoring and evaluation skills of

implementing agencies at the Headquarters and at the field.

M&E Task Force Members• Chung Lai, IRD • Dan Houston, FFP, South Africa• Celeste Lemrow, Africare • Ruso Luca, FAO

• Harry “Happ” Carr , CRS • Marumbo Ngwira, World Vision, South Africa

• Jodi Beckham, Samaritan’s Purse

• Donard Nyirendra, World Vision, Haiti

• Pamela Velez-Vega, FANTA 2 • Faly Rabetaliana, Land O’Lakes, Madagascar

• Maria Bina Palmisano, ACDI/VOCA

• Kelvin Luputa, Land-O-Lakes, Zambia

• Mogollen Nestor, ADRA • Edson Torrico, FH, Guatemala

• Marie Aughenbaugh, Counterpart Intl

• Issa Konda, Africare, Chad

• Ediner Ogwangi, Land O’Lakes • Denis Marrota, ACDI/VOCA, Uganda

• Edith Mutalaya, World Vision • Dramane Mariko, FFP Dakar

• Joyce Luma, WFP (VAM) • Towfique Aziz, Save the Children, Bangladesh

• Michelle Mwalimu, OICI • Abdul Wadud, CARE Bangladesh

• Sarah Titus, Save the Children • Arif Rashid, TOPS/TANGO

Progress so far…

• Developed Core Competencies for M&E Professionals

• Conducted first round of self capacity-assessment • Contributed to the revision of baseline and end-line

required indicators• Reviewed a number of existing M&E Guides

Ongoing Activities

• Developing an M&E Guide for the Field Based Practitioners

• Developing a standard Scope of Work for Mid Term Evaluation

• Developing Job Description of M&E Staff working for Title II Projects

• Identifying a Beneficiary Registration and Tracking Tool

Do you want to join?

Please contact: arif@tangointernational.com

Do you want to subscribe?

To subscribe: fsninfo-subscribe@lists.foodsecuritynetwork.org

FSN Network Webportalhttp://fsnnetwork.org/

This presentation was made possible by the generous support of the American people through the United States Agency for International Development (USAID). The contents are the responsibility of Save the Children and do not necessarily reflect the views of USAID or the United States Government.