| Roundtable: Responsive Approaches to Strengthening Monitoring, Learning and Evaluation Capacity: A Case Study, Shack/Slum Dwellers International (SDI) and Rockefeller Foundation |
| Roundtable Presentation 658 to be held in Conference Room 1 on Friday, Nov 4, 1:35 PM to 2:20 PM |
| Sponsored by the Advocacy and Policy Change TIG |
| Presenter(s): |
| Suman Sureshbabu, Rockefeller Foundation, ssureshbabu@rockfound.org |
| Sheela Patel, Slum/Shack Dwellers International, sparcssns@gmail.com |
| Abstract: Slum/Shack Dwellers International (SDI) is an alliance of organizations of the urban poor from 33 countries in Africa, Asia and Latin America. Their mission is to link poor urban communities to mobilize, advocate and put forth problem solving strategies to ensure cities integrate the interests of slum dwellers into urban development. Recently the Rockefeller Foundation and SDI partnered to help strengthen SDI's internal systems for monitoring, learning and evaluation (MLE). SDI was interested in how they can better utilize MLE to describe their own work, measure their successes and scale up their efforts. The Foundation was interested in how to better support grantees to improve their own MLE systems to better articulate their challenges and successes to donors and policy makers. This paper concludes with how the process of building partnerships to support MLE in urban poor networks can go beyond addressing accountability to actually help strengthen social movements. |