Pilot Test of the MSC process in Sri Lanka
The team decided that it would be a good idea to pilot test the MSC process prior to full scale implementation as monitoring and evaluation tool for the ongoing Community Participatory Sustainable Development Project.
The pilot test ran for 2 weeks. ( 21st May to- 4th of June). June has been a very busy month for all due to several holidays falling in April and May. As such the team was not able to collect a large number of stories. Seven stories were collected in total.
The selection was scheduled the 12th to coincide with the monthly team meeting. This was to ensure everyone’s participation.
A presentation was made on MSC process and moving forward. (See full presentation for details). Issues were discussed (e.g. what should be the domains, doesn’t it take a long time to see a change, ) and clarifications were made. It was made clear that we should not wait for the big change but should capture the smaller changes that lead to the big change.
Overall feedback was provided on how to improve story collection.
e.g. To make sure details such as who the story tellers is, who collected the story, when the story was collected, how the beneficiary got involved with the project, most significant change and why the change was significant is clearly captured. Some of the stories seemed to get lost in the narration and it was difficult to understand what the significant change was and why. The need to include relevant background information especially since these stories will be read by many who may not know the background was also mentioned. At the next session field staff themselves will be asked to look at ways of improving their stories. Everyone agreed that video clips was a convenient way of capturing stories and an effective and powerful way of communicating the stories at selection group level as many found reading to be rather tedious and boring.
It was also communicated that feedback on individual stories will be shared shortly
Selection Process
Since there was only a small number of stories, the Team leader and PMs selected the stories together. The QA Manager was unable to attend due to a prior commitment but provided written feedback on the stories.
Domains were not pre-decided. It was left for the selector to decide on appropriate domains during the selection process.
During the discussion some of the domains suggested were:
Changes in…
Attitude/ mindset
Psycho social wellbeing
Use of technology
Gender equity/inclusion/empowerment
Access to new markets
Social empowerment
Environmentally friendly practices
Relationships between market actors
Business skill development
These will be further discussed and refined to suit the Community Participatory Sustainable Development Project
The stories were read individually and comments shared. Using a iterative discussion process two stories were selected. Reasons for selecting these have been provided in the section following the stories.
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