By Ehichioya Steve Odion
Conference of Non-Governmental Organization (CONGOs) recently released a report covering activities carried out in the EU-ACT coaching and monitoring project - Inclusive coaching and monitoring of 3 CSOs to improve their Networking and Civic Engagement in Edo State.
The report signed by Mrs Daisy Abiola Igaga, President and Comrade Dr. Bartholomew Okoudo FCS, Director of Administration, was made available to The Groove Watch News in Benin City.
The report indicated that the Monitoring and Evaluation visit to benefiting Organizations which covered August to October, 2023, was conducted by the Conference of Non-Governmental Organizations (CONGOs) M&E Project Officer.
"The visit it stated was to ascertain the state of the organizations before commencement of the project, progress and availability of relevant documents in the individual beneficiary organizations as well as ensuring that the project achieves its objectives
The Report also shows that the outcome of the visit indicated that the selected organization made a tremendous progress in achieving project objectives.
The report said the purpose of the visit was to strengthen member organizations to independently improve their Networking and Civic Engagements as well as build capacity on proposal writing, project management, resource mobilization, project design, development of organizational policies and effective leadership amongst others.
It started that benefiting organizations have experienced stage by stage growth and improvement and were able to show the progress made in their organizations.
In what the report described as Stories of Change, Netete Initiative expressed satisfaction that they have experienced growth in their organization. They said they understood the need to develop organizational policies and other relevant operational modules, and have been able to develop them.
The reports of M&E visit revealed that the organizations now have vision and mission statements and observable core values and other documents as against when they had none at the entry stage. They stated that they did not have proper documentations at the entry stage of the project, but have now been able to develop the relevant documents and have equally, better understanding in organizing their documents.
The report further said that from the report, it was discovered that the organizations have been able to draft more policies that have improved their organizational operations as a result of the coaching and mentoring sessions as well as the peer learning sessions.
The organization stated that despite being a woman led organization, they now have better understanding on Gender and Social Inclusion and are more determined to implement being all inclusive in their organizational operations.
The report recommended that the project team should pay more attention to benefiting organization's financial documents to ensure improvement and proper implementation on organizational accountability.
b. The project team should also sustain collaboration and peer learning amongst benefitting organizations to enable low performing organizations meet up with the other organizations, as this session imparted the beneficiary organizations greatly during project implementation.
Concluding, they observed that benefiting organizations have shown improvement in organizational capacity and have gained better understanding of organizational operations, adding that most of them have shown improvement in documentation and filling as well as creating easy location of files and office address.
The report said on the other hand, project team identified gaps in different organizations and will ensure that the areas needed attention would be addressed.
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