Participant-led Visual Monitoring Tools for Resilience and Community Visioning in Southern Madagascar: Guide

Catholic Relief Services (CRS) Madagascar and partners apply Community Visioning (CV) in the Maharo Resilience Food Security Activity (RFSA) to promote people-centered integrated food and nutrition security programming driven by participants’ needs, aspirations, and shared vision. This inclusive, non-extractive, project-duration process generates vast volumes of qualitative data. The CC-IDEAL project aims to upgrade and leverage the existing CV process within the Maharo RFSA. The main objectives of the CC-IDEAL project include the following: (i) to improve how data are captured, analyzed, and represented to serve as a proof of concept for collaborative participatory monitoring and evaluation in CV implementation; and (ii) to improve how program participants and RFSA staff co-create, co-own, and use data collaboratively to prioritize, plan, and evaluate RFSA interventions in a process of iterative adaptive management.

Use this guide to create a participatory monitoring and evaluation to accompany CV implementation. This can help RFSA programs and communities alike create a comprehensive data-driven system to document decisions for creating sustained change and improve RFSA program quality.

This report was made possible by a grant from the Implementer-Led Design, Evidence, Analysis and Learning (IDEAL) Activity. The IDEAL Small Grants Program is made possible by the generous support and contribution of the American people through the United States Agency for International Development (USAID).