Effectiveness meetings

The Bond Effectiveness Programme is a three-year programme of work that started in October 2009.

As a part of the consultation process around the programme, we hold quarterly meetings with the membership.

We also held a special event on the theme of Value for Money in February 2011.

Quarterly meetings

January 2011

• Purpose and agenda
• Presentation: Rob Lloyd
• Background note
• Im-Prove it! unpacked – two ways of working

September 2010

• Purpose and agenda
• Presentation: Christina Laybourn, One World Trust

June 2010

• Purpose and agenda
• Presentations: 

             Rob Lloyd, One World Trust, Quality Inititiatives
             Anna Stobart, Consultant, Effective Partnerships

• Background note (research summary)
• Write up

February 2010

• Purpose and agenda
• Presentations:

              Nick Roseveare
              Julian Srodecki

• Write up

Inception phase launch 2009

• Presentations

              Nick Roseveare, Bond
              Michael Hammer, One World Trust
              Richard Hawkes, previously VSO

• Write up

Value for money

Value for money:  linking NGO practice and aid policy May 2011

Members came together for a roundtable to discuss a coherent sector-wide position on value for money.  Participants considered different definitions of value for money and the key challenges around the agenda.  Moving forwards, Bond will start working on a position paper for input, discussion and agreement amongst members, to be published in advance of the High Level Form on Aid Effectiveness (HLF4) in November.  Bond will also establish a technical group, as part of the wider effectiveness programme, for those grappling with value for money to share experiences in applying different approaches.

Workshop February 2011

The Bond effectiveness team hosted a half-day workshop in which forty-eight member organisations took stock of the relevant debates and heard from DFID and Bond members who have trialled a value for money approach.

Straight afterwards, the Governance Group ran an event on how we can better measure and monitor the impact of governance programmes.

• Agenda
• Presentations

               1.  Translating Value for Money into Dfid's funding of civil society
                    Jo Abbot, Deputy Head, Civil Society Department
               2.  International HIV/AIDS Alliance
                    Liza Tong, Programme Manager, Planning, Evaluation, Research
               3.  Oxfam GB
                    Claire Hutchings, Global Advisor, Monitoring, Evaluation and
                    Learning

                    presentation one
                    presentation two

               4.  VSO
                    Sara Cottingham, Head of Advocacy
               5.  WaterAid
                    Jerry Adams, Head of Programme Effectiveness Unit

• Other useful documents

              1.   NEF Position Paper VfM in International Development Sept 2010
              2.   Oxfam paper produced by evaluators on the BER analysis used
                    in the Climate Change Campaign Evaluation
               3.  HIV/Aids Alliance discussion paper and the SROI study
               4.  SROI practical guide, which was produced by Context,
                    international cooperation
               5.  Contribution analysis paper one

                    ILAC contribution analysis paper

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