GIRL ICON PROGRAM: THEORY OF CHANGE, LOG FRAMEWORK & MONITORING PLAN & TOOLS DESIGN
Program Design & Monitoring Case Study
Milaan Foundation works to educate, enable and empower adolescent girls from disadvantaged communities. The Foundation’s flagship program, ‘The Girl Icon Program’, is a two year leadership program that equips girls with knowledge, skills, courage and confidence to become change agents. Over the past few years, the Program had grown significantly in Uttar Pradesh and Madhya Pradesh, and in 2018, it intended to cover 500 girls across four States, with the potential to reach 10,000 girls. The Foundation wanted to re-articulate the philosophy of the program.
THE ASK
1. Re-design of the Program
2. Measuring progress made on the ground
THE SOLUTION
Program framework
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Desk reviews and primary research to delineate design & ‘persona’ of the Girl Icon
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Theory of change and log framework for the Program
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Design of program components for the residential modules & supporting modules (leadership curriculum, coaching program, parents’ workshop etc)
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Training Foundation team and core facilitators on the new program design
Monitoring plan and tools
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Secondary research on frameworks used to evaluate programs for adolescent girls
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For each module, identifying ‘learning outcomes’ and operationalising variables to be measured
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Development of data collection tools
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Monitoring plan:
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Module-wise break down of: (a) key performance indicators (b) data collection tool (questionnaire, video etc); (c) timeline for data collection (baseline and endline)
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Manuals to help field agency administer the data collection tools, and training of field agency
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Piloting of the tools in semi-urban and rural contexts to ensure reliability & validity
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Analysis of pilot data - modification to the monitoring plan
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