Experience of results
•H
ow satisfied have clients been with the outcomes of their cases? Do
they see it as fair/ partly fair/ not fair?
•H
ow satisfied have clients been with the help they received from the
paralegal?
Norms and spill-over effects
•A
re former clients sharing legal knowledge or assisting others with
applications for legal identity documents? If so, how and with whom?
CARVING OUT
SPACE FOR LEARNING
FROM THE RESULTS
OF YOUR MONITORING
AND EVALUATION
ACTIVITIES, AND
INTEGRATING THESE
•D
o people who are not clients know how to get their documents?
Do they go on their own, with direct encouragement, or only with
accompaniment?
LESSONS INTO
•W
hat is the relationship between legal documents and sense of
belonging and sense of having a stake in society? How do clients and
non-clients report interacting with government?
OF PLANNING, IS
Collective action and systemic change
•D
o community members think the community itself could advance
issues around legal identity and citizenship? How?
•H
ow have clients’ attitudes towards government changed as a result
of their work with the paralegal and/or as a result of successfully
acquiring/using legal identity documents?
THE NEXT ROUND
ESSENTIAL FOR
RESPONDING TO
CLIENT CONCERNS,
IMPROVING EFFICIENCY,
AND IMPROVING
STANDARDS.
•D
o clients report a greater, the same, or a lesser sense of agency than
they felt before they worked with a paralegal, in terms of their ability
to mobilize collectively to solve common challenges?
•H
ow do local government officials report being influenced by or
interacting with the paralegals? With clients?
Carving out space for learning from the results of your monitoring and
evaluation activities, and integrating these lessons into the next round
of planning, is essential for responding to client concerns, improving
efficiency, and improving standards. Especially if paralegals do not play
a major role in monitoring and evaluating themselves, they must receive
feedback and learn the reasons behind it. Workshops, phone calls, and
team meetings are all ways for paralegals and other members of your
program to think through how to use the results of data analysis and
evaluation in improving the program.
Working with donors and partners to discuss and compare programs, impacts,
and lessons learned is also wise. Collaborations, particularly in evaluation
activities, can offer opportunities to compare the design of your services with
other programs and see which succeeds and in what circumstances.
he information you gather during monitoring processes, and the
T
lessons learned through evaluation, can be developed into reports
for advocacy, or written up and shared confidentially with decisionmakers. See 10.5 Advocacy Strategy: Relationship-Building and
Education for further information.
DISCRIMINATION
EMPOWERMENT
SUSTAINABILITY
DATA
RELATED RESOURCES
(EXTERNAL)
RELATED SECTIONS
(WITHIN)
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