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Workshop: RAM-standarder: Konsekvenser for organisatorisk praksis og tilpasningsevne
TID: Torsdag den 28. august kl. 12.30-16.30
STED: Global Fokus, Rysensteensgade 3, København V.
TILMELDING: På dette link
TID: Torsdag den 28. august kl. 12.30-16.30
STED: Global Fokus, Rysensteensgade 3, København V.
TILMELDING: På dette link
RAM-standards: what are the implications for our organisational practice and adaptive capacity?
Introduction: Fagligt Fokus has in 2014 initiating a process, which aims to explore how and to what extent it is possible to combine a results-based approach to monitoring of advocacy (e.g. RAM) with an approach, which includes the complexity of advocacy change processes.
By a complexity aware approach we understand an approach, which takes into account complexity in relation to monitoring due to a growing recognition that many advocacy interventions are pursuing change in contexts where there are poorly understood relationships between cause and effect.
Complexity aware monitoring (of advocacy) has proven to strengthen programme stakeholders’ adaptive capacity.
The integration of complexity aware monitoring approaches in programmes and organisational systems and processes can therefore be seen as capacity-development in its own right, and can strengthen programme actors and their organisations.
The notion of adaptive capacity is made topical by the fact that Danida recently has developedthe RAM standards (Resource Allocation Model):
“The increasing number of framework organisations has accentuated the need for harmonising assessment frameworks as well as to developing an instrument to create transparency around allocation of resources” (RAM standards page 1).
The RAM consists of 24 standards, which organisations with a framework funding agreement with Danida have to report on. RAM is both an economic instrument and a performance-reporting instrument coupled with requirements for reflection, learning, added value, etc.
This raises many questions both in terms of implications for organisational practice and adaptive capacity but also in terms of the partnership between Danish NGOs and their partners in the Global South. In June 2014, Danida has launched a new Civil Society Policy.
The workshop aims to explore both the challenges but also opportunities of the RAM standards – e.g. can the RAM standards be used to improve the deeper impact of our development work?
What new practice can the RAM standard lead to? How do we understand organisational practice? How do we develop our organisational practice? What do we need to do differently? What capacity is required? Etc.
The workshop will combine presentations by Henrik Nielsen, Global Fokus, and James Taylor, www.CDRA.org.za – and participants’ interactions.
Output: the participants will via peer consultation identify 2-3 points of reflection/action (for each organization), which they will use to improve own approach and practice.
Contactperson:
Marianne Bo Paludan
Konsulent for Fagligt Fokus
Mobil 21714898
