The Key Questions

The key issues for further discussion, as identified in the paper: The Civil Society Partnership Programme: Issues and Options for the Second Phase (pdf 124kb) include:

• The overall programme
  • Does the proposed framework for Phase 2 look sensible?
    
  • Are the proposed outcomes necessary and sufficient to deliver the Purpose?
    
  • What is a reasonable level of ambition? Any ideas for indicators of impact and how to measure them?
    
  • Should the programme be doing anything else, which could not be included as an activity within these 5 outcomes?
    
  • What should the balance of effort be across the 5 outcomes?
    
  • Should the programme aim to do fewer larger projects, or continue to try to learn across a large programme of small projects?
    
  • Where and how to attract additional resources for programme activities?
    
  • What is the best governance structure/mechanisms for the programme?
    
• Outcome 1 - Research
  • What are the best mechanisms to learn in a programme like this (internal learning & KM, commissioned research, evaluations, all of the above?)
    
  • What are the most pressing "research" topics for Phase 2 (Characterising contexts; Networks; the research industry in developing countries; parliamentarians and policy makers; others?)
    
  • How should the research be undertaken (undertaken internally, externally commissioned, collaborative projects?).
    
  • What issues in this area would southern CSOs be interested in working on?
    
• Outcome 2 - Establishing Capacity
  
  • Do the sort of regional organisations envisaged at the start of the programme really not exist?
    
  • If so, how best to maximise the impact of the programme (A community of practice, strategic alliances, "accrediting" training organisations, strengthening ODI's own capacity, or a mixture of the above?)
    
  • How best to build a network or community of practice?
    
  • How best to build capacity (training courses, collaborative work, peer-support etc)?
    
  • Should ODI provide funds to partners or facilitate applications to other donors?
    
  • What would southern CSOs be interested in working on in this area with ODI?
    
• Outcome 3 - Global projects
  
• What are the best mechanisms for these global projects?
  
• What sort of organisations should ODI seek to work with?
  
• What are the global development that southern CSOs be interested in working on?
  
• Outcome 4 - Information
  
• What sort of information products do CSOs need and want?
  
• How best to ensure accessibility to ODI information products in the south?
  
• Any ideas for innovative information activities (multimedia, interactivity, e-learning etc)?
  
• Outcome 5 - Changing ODI
  
• Is this outcome necessary?
  
• Will southern partners welcome this explicit description of the need to change the way that ODI works?

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