CANADA NEPAL GENDER IN ORGANIZATIONS

Section II: Outcomes Mapping

13. PNGOs and Outcomes Mapping Experience

The involvement of the PNGOs to assess their own and another district was very supportive and useful to bring out the complicated information from the community, PPNGO and district levels. The PNGO team members speak the local language, live the same culture and understand better than outside consultants the reality of a district situation. Moreover, since the PNGO team members were familiar with many of the tools used in the outcome mapping, it was straight-forward for the Lead Consultants to coach them on how to use the tools in a gender evaluation process. Working in a new team in every district was the best factor for motivating the whole process, and it was always a good challenge to bring consistency in thoughts, field work, analysis and reporting. Everybody's findings were complemented by others. Thus this was an extraordinary group work. The outcome mapping could be completed in the conflict situation mainly due to the involvement of the local level PNGOs.

After completion of field work in the two CNGO clusters, feedback sessions were organized among the outcome mapping team members, in Dadeldhura for the western region team and in Janakpur for the terai team. Team members responded that they had learned new skills in evaluation, and were mentally stimulated and challenged by the process. In particular, the process helped them to reflect on their personal level of empowerment and role in their NGO, and the cultural change needed for gender equality. Digging deeper through intensive questioning and requesting examples to substantiate claims, they penetrated into the real gender situation. They strengthened their intention to improve their organization's gender sensitivity and to address gender strategic interests in their programs. Thus the participants moved past a superficial level of gender monitoring to deeply analyzing the outcomes of the CNGO - PNGO partnership.

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