23 Australian Humanitarian Partners to improve monitoring, evaluation with workshop
Humanitarian organisations play a vital role in providing assistance nationwide in times of crisis and they depend solely on committed support from their donors to carry out their work.
But in order to get the needed funding, they need to demonstrate development success to donors in a clear, comprehensive, competing and innovative manner.
It is for that reason the Adventists Development & Risk Agency (ADRA) Fiji is facilitating a two-day workshop for 23 Australian Humanitarian Partners (AHP) today and tomorrow on monitoring and evaluation under the shared services partnership.
ADRA Fiji plays the monitoring technical support role in this consortium tasked with the responsibility of building capacity of our local partners in monitoring and evaluation. In this capacity, the ADRA Monitoring Evaluation Research Learning & Innovation (MERLI) team has been working in close collaboration with the 23 Focal Points since 2018.
“Monitoring and evaluation are of vital importance for us to assess that our project is achieving set targets. The exercise is also relevant to donors to assess whether we are a reliable partner and they will also decide on our accountability,” MERLI officer Paulini Vakacegu said.
Ms Vakacegu said the workshop was another medium of working together as a consortium to reach a common goal and they were thankful to our donor the Department of Foreign Affairs and
Trade Australia (DFAT).
The main objective of the workshop, she said, was to build capacities of AHP MERLI Focal points and identify monitoring approaches, review indicators, tools for post distribution monitoring that encompasses gender, inclusiveness, protection holistically mainstreaming Cash voucher assistance across livelihood, WASH, Food Security activities that AHP partners are implementing. “When each partner brings its own expertise and resources to this programme, the impact are multiplied and the sum total of our partnership is worth more than what we can achieve on our own.”