Monitoring Visit (Children Grassroots Groups)

“Children’s grassroots group is the channel for promoting child rights through active and effective child participation.”

1. Objective of the monitoring visit

1.1. Main Objective of the monitoring visit

1.2. Specific Objectives of the monitoring visit

1.3. Expected Outcome from the monitoring visit

2. Monitoring Visit Methodology, dates and Location
3. Number of Children attended children’s group meet during our visit
4. What’s Going well in the district of implementation

1. Objective of the monitoring visit:

1.1. Main Objective of the monitoring visit:

The main purpose of our monitoring visit is to make sure that project tasks and activities are being implemented the way they are described in the plan, and whether are leading towards the intended project results. It involved meeting with project stakeholders especially children grassroots groups in order to liaise information on the implementation progress and observe project activities results in their community.

1.2. Specific Objectives of the monitoring visit.

Identify issues in projects implementation as well as common issues in children grassroots groups;

2. Collecting best practices of grassroots groups and provide them with advice where applicable.

 

1.3. Expected Outcome from the monitoring visit:

1.   Improved quality of ongoing implementation of project activities;

2.   Recommendations for operationalization of CVT grassroots groups for sustainability purpose;

3.   Availability of effective and efficient methods for obtaining information on some qualitative indicators for CVT interventions;

4.   To ensure that organization’s decision making is based/reflect beneficiaries’ needs as (especially child participation).

2. Monitoring Visit Methodology

Methodology we use in our monitoring visits is interviews with key informants and Focus Group Discussion (FGD) with stakeholders as well as beneficiaries including children grassroots groups members, parents, and local leaders. The monitoring visit team discuss with members of each grassroots group visited on project activities and how they’re contributing in promoting their rights.

 3.   Number of Children who attended children’s group meet during our visits.

Number of Children groups visited are different in districts of implementation, in fact the number of children grassroots group members vary between 40 and 80 children.

4. What’s Going well in the district of implementation

• Children’s groups are contributing in shaping children’s day to day life through helping them to have good behavior;
• Children’s groups are helping children in their community to develop their talents (e.g: The Inyemeramihigo children grassroots group from Cyanika sector Burera district has a competent traditional dance group);
• Local or Community leaders are aware of children’s grassroots groups activities in ditricts of our interventions, in addition they help children initiatives through facilitating children’s groups to invite other children, parents and adults to attend some events or other children’s group activities organized by children’s group targeting the community, moreover children group members started to attend monthly community work known as Umuganda, as they’re planning to use such opportunities as community gathering to give the message of advocating issues that affect their fellows on day to day life and message aim to promote child rights especially child participation;
• Children’s groups are participating in encouraging their peers who dropped out to go back to school;
• Children are helping their fellows to enjoy their right in their group through sketch, songs and dances, etc.