SDC Experience and Practice on Empowerment in Madagascar

Empowerment monitoring in Madagascar How can empowerment be monitored? This was the question that catalysed a collaborative piece of work with an SDC-supported rural development programme in Madagascar. The programme, known as SAHA, has been using Outcome Mapping to plan and monitor its activities since 2007. A key element of Outcome Mapping is monitoring changes in the behaviour of the project partners, and of the project staff themselves. How these changes play out in terms of empowerment dynamics was investigated and documented in two ways. One is a story about the process of introducing Outcome Mapping, and the reactions of the different persons involved - written as part of a series of "Empowerment Stories" for Povnet. The other is a more factual analysis of the process and results, which has been published in the Outcome Mapping online resource library (see http://outcomemapping.ca/).
Monitoring Empowerment: The experiences of SAHA in using outcome mapping; Carter et al., 2010 Download (PDF, 1003 KB): [eng]
What does empowerment mean to donor agencies? What role do they play in empowerment processes? These were questions asked by a Task Team established under POVNET over the period 2009 – 2010 to consider ways in which poor women and men can be empowered to participate in and benefit from growth. As a body under the OECD Development Assistance Committee (DAC) with a varied membership of international development agencies, POVNET was well placed to ask such questions. The issue was tackled by asking members to provide narratives (stories) of particular situations in which they had been involved in empowerment processes, emphasising the potentially differing perceptions of the different stakeholders. In particular, they were asked to critically analyse their own role. SDC provided three such “stories of empowerment”, drawn from its activities in Bangladesh, Madagascar and Mali. These stories will be published in summarised form through POVNET, but they are provided here in full version. Outcome monitoring and empowerment: the experience of SAHA, a rural development program in Madagascar
Outcome monitoring and empowerment: the experiences of SAHA, a rural development program in Madagascar; Carter et al., 2010 Download (PDF,244 KB): [eng]