Organizational practices and monitoring progress in Outcome Mapping

1. Organizational Practices and Monitoring Progress in OM Julius N Nyangaga and Charles Warria

2. Session Five Organizational Practices - The Project as a ‘Boundary Partner’ Are standard good management principles - activities that should wisely be practiced. This is where WE debate 'what is right and wrong with ‘us‘ – as the Project or Program team … where we get to be honest about ourselves and decide if WE ARE STILL RELEVANT in the innovation equation and what we seek to achieve

3. Session Five Organizational Practices … 8 Management Activities (could be more) 1. Prospect for new ideas, opportunities, resources 2. Seek feedback from key informants 3. Obtain support of next highest power 4. Assess and (re)design products, services, systems and procedures Answers to questions the Project will do to …

4. Session Five 8. Engage in organizational reflection 5. Check up on those served to add value 6. Share your best wisdom with the world 7. Experiment to remain innovative Answers to questions the Project will do to … Organizational Practices … 8 Management Activities (could be more)

5. Session Five Organizational Practices … 8 Management Activities (could be more) Through organizational practices, we constantly review our own performance in line with our Vision and Mission, developing Outcomes and what the Project Stakeholders reflect of us

6. Monitoring elements: Changes in behaviours, actions, activities and relationships among the key boundary partners - the Progress Markers The Strategies the Programme is employing to encourage the changes The functioning of the Programme as an Organizational unit Session Five

11. Monitoring plan (help prioritize): : Session Five Priority: Boundary partner progress Program Strategies Program Organizational Practices Proposed Tool: Outcome journal Strategy journal Performance journal

12. Developing a Performance Journal List the organizational practices: 1. Prospect for new ideas, opportunities, resources 2. Seek feedback from key informants 3. Obtain support of next highest power 4. Assess and (re)design products, services, systems and procedures 5. Check up on those served to add value 6. Share your best wisdom with the world 7. Experiment to remain innovative 8. Engage in organizational reflection

13. Conclusion It is recommended to combine the OM monitoring approach with other M & E approaches to make the process inclusive and the results more acceptable Note … Because OM enables a team to use ongoing feedback to track progress, make corrections and report results at any stage of an initiative .