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Sam Worthington, President and CEO of InterAction issues an invite to Keystone’s Development Partnership survey

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Sam Worthington, President and CEO of InterAction issues an invite to Keystone’s Development Partnership survey. The invite is below.   ___________________________________________________ Dear Colleagues, In 2010, 28 international NGOs in the United States and Europe participated in the Keystone Performance Survey: Development Partnerships to assess the quality of their relationships with their local partners across five[…]

InterAction members and European NGOs: Development Partnership Survey 2013

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In 2010, 28 international NGOs in the United States and Europe participated in the Keystone Performance Survey: Development Partnerships to assess the quality of their relationships with their local partners. Since then, another 22 have commissioned the survey and more than 2,500 local partners have responded, yielding the participating INGOs with valuable information about how these partnerships could be improved and strengthened.

New publication brings voices of those intended to benefit into development planning, reporting and above all learning

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Who Counts?: the power of participatory statistics by Jeremy Holland (with an afterword by Robert Chambers).  Available January 2013. This exciting new book carries 13 case studies of how diverse developmental programs have applied the approach and tools of participatory statistics to measurement and learning. Each case is a unique story about how program implementers and their constituents have[…]

Will efforts to cultivate the voices of the grassroots reinforce the tendency of northern NGOs to be accountable upward to donors rather than downward to those they serve?

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Not all efforts to cultivate the voices of the grassroots are well conceived. It is hard to tell from this article, but it looks like this may well be one of those efforts that will reinforce the tendency of northern NGOs to be accountable upward to donors rather than downward to those they serve. We are[…]

Sign the contract supporting enhanced disclosure and monitoring of public contracts

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Within the context of improved governance and service delivery, Open Contracting refers to norms, practices and methodologies for increased transparency and monitoring in public contracting, including contracts implemented by multilateral donors. Open Contracting begins with the disclosure of the relevant public procurement information from pre-award activities through contract award and implementation to allow for effective[…]

Keystone’s Open Contracting Theory of Change Survey report available here

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This report was released at the Open Contracting First Global Meeting in Johannesburg 24th-26th October. It presents the results from an online survey about a growing practice known as Open Contracting. The main purpose of the survey was to understand how familiar people are with the Open Contracting approach and how they understood its effects. The[…]

Read Keystone South Africa’s “Strategies to Overcome Poverty and Inequality – Towards Carnegie III” conference paper

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This paper offers a practitioner’s perspective on an original approach and method for generating, making sense of, and learning from performance and impact data that are grounded in empirically valid feedback from the intervention’s primary constituents – those intended to directly benefit.

2007 Impact Assessment Practices Survey

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Keystone and Alliance Magazine conducted an online survey in 2007 to get the opinions of those on both ends of evaluation, donors and grantees. The results suggest a broad acceptance of the importance of evaluation by donors and grantees alike, though neither group seems to feel it is contributing all that much to grantee effectiveness. This presents donors with a huge opportunity to fund grantees to do it better. If evaluation were properly funded, and if donors did more in terms of following up the findings, it could make all the difference.

IKEA Foundation announce funding for Keystone’s Ground Truth project

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The IKEA Foundation is the charitable arm of INGKA foundation, the owner of IKEA Group. The IKEA Foundation has announced a series of grants for nonprofits based in the United States and the United Kingdom, one of which is Keystone’s Ground Truth project. To read the IKEA press release, please click here.